Sentences with phrase «many gender barriers»

Felena Hanson is smashing the gender barrier in the male - dominated world of coworking space startups.

The 91 - year - old entrepreneur smashed the gender barrier in the old boys club of produce and brought some 200 unusual edibles out of obscurity and onto our pl...

He takes things we see in everyday life — the president, gender barriers, the internet, suicide — and breaks these concepts down to their core.

The key to smashing the gender barrier in the working world, Corcoran tells Entrepreneur, is to play the gender card, not to keep it tucked in your pocket.

In August, when Askew stepped into her role as First Captain of the U.S. Military Academy's Corps of Cadets, her leadership position broke both racial and gender barriers.

Negative attitudes toward the idea of women as senior pastors are well documented in Edward C. Lehman, Jr.'s, sociological study Women Clergy: Breaking Through Gender Barriers (Transaction, 1985) The author analyzed detailed responses from 1,720 Presbyterian lay - people and 1,143 Presbyterian clergy concerning a wide range of attitudes toward women in ministry.

Rarely does anyone at MTS cross the race and gender barrier to offer comfort and support in the war between the sexes and the races.

There are no gender barriers because male and female, slave and free only made sense before the terror of Pentecost disrupted everything.

THE MASCULINITY of the matador is sacred in Spain, but in the PBS documentary Ella Es El Matador (She Is the Matador) we meet two women trying to break that gender barrier and open the sport to all.

She broke many gender barriers and proclaimed that «women are liberated from the time they leave the womb.»

Barbara Underwood, the state's solicitor general, will break a gender barrier when she becomes acting attorney general.

The lieutenant governor says the message is important because women are still dealing with gender barriers, wage gaps and harassment in the workplace.

Baalla's win broke gender barriers in a boy - dominated sport: she was the only girl to place among the top ten in this competitive division.

Breaking down gender barriers will bring more energy and fresh perspectives into the world of science.

'' [Gender barriers] will not go away on their own,» writes Virginia Valian (1).

And this isn't the first time Welter has broken down gender barriers while passing the pigskin.

On the cyberspace playing field, social class and gender barriers are often overcome by the fact that every player is in the same place, to play the same game.

Great Britain was neither the first nor the last nation to lower the gender barrier by granting women the vote.

The reach of the action / comedy franchise extends beyond all racial, age, and gender barriers, and crosses cultural borders worldwide - which is why there's so much pressure on Feig and company to produce a high quality movie.

This attitude has evolved out of a career in which Collins has smashed through racial and gender barriers to create her own professional opportunities, and one in which she has also worked diligently for those who have come after her in pursuing their professional goals.

In fact, the Head of ICT Curriculum and Innovation at Good Shepherd Lutheran College on Queensland's Sunshine Coast regularly introduces his students to inspirational female role models currently working in IT, with the aim of breaking down gender barriers.

In higher education, Putnam reports that racial and (especially) gender barriers have waned, as class barriers are on the rise.

A visually stunning overview of international aviation pioneers, women who broke gender barriers.

Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II.

She became a de facto member of a very small group of African American artists who broke the color barrier, and the gender barrier, and who laid claim to abstraction on their own terms long before the current trend in African American abstraction (For instance, see Amber Jamilla Musser's essay in the October 2017 Brooklyn Rail).

I refused to admit (even to myself) that there were any gender barriers.

But many of the reasons for the decrease cited in the article — stronger economic times, more lucrative non-law career paths, bad publicity about punishing workloads in law firms — cross gender barriers altogether.

Break the gender barrier and be bold to ensure a financial backup against any eventuality.

According to the Hays Ireland Gender Diversity Report, 82 % of women believe gender barriers exist in their industry but thankfully this doesn't appear to be the case in the engineering sector.

The Hays Ireland Gender Diversity Report 2017 provides you with the latest insights on gender barriers and stereotypes, how they continue to affect companies and affect the retention of talented professionals.

Despite the obvious benefits of shared parenting, gender barriers don't crumble easily and legal reform doesn't usually happen without pushback.

Not exact matches

If we're going to make progress in gender equity in science, technology, math, and engineering, we need to dive in — frankly and honestly — to the cultural barriers that stand in the way.

Whatever their particular organizational biases (age or gender) or structural barriers (hierarchy or bureaucracy) may be that interfere with open and effective company - wide communication, the bottom line is that they're flying at least partly blind and it's actually an easy fix.

However, Morneau, who also announced the introduction of up to five weeks of parental leave for fathers or non-birth parents to encourage greater sharing of child - rearing responsibilities, did not address a question on the limits of legislation and what the government can do to address societal barriers that could contribute the gender pay gap.

WISE offers a platform for women working in startups to address the gender - specific barriers to entrepreneurship through mentoring, fundraising, and advocacy.

Gender blindness is not yet sweeping across America, but if one little boy in Pennsylvania can leap the cultural barrier, perhaps in some rosy, not too distant future, the rest of the country will follow his example.

Gender Convergence in Domestic Work: discerning the effects of interactional and institutional barriers in large - scale data.

No matter who ends up being elected, it is great to see so many barriers in regards to race and gender, finally being broken down during this election.

It is a fundamental goal of Waldorf education to bring students to an understanding and experience of the common humanity of all the world's peoples, transcending any stereotypes, prejudices, or divisive barriers of race, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, creed, religion, national origin, or ethnicity.

Some practical problems arising from the issues mentioned above in Iraq are: 1) the lack of security during and after displacement (between areas controlled by ISIS and the government controlled locations); and 2) the barriers to access basic services such as WASH, shelter, food, education, child protection and Gender Based Violence, among others.

But access is not a purely financial issue: there are many other barriers from poor primary and secondary education to gender discrimination that can make university effectively unattainable.

Describing additional progress in the areas of health, gender equality, trade, investment and market access, he emphasized «we are ready to do business with the world» but stressed that regional and global markets must be free of distortions such as subsidies, tariffs and non-tariff barriers and that international community must live up to the aspirations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Agenda.

«Just because men and women are satisfied, I don't think that means we can just ignore the institutional and societal barriers that lead to these gender differences,» says Susan Nolan, a psychologist at Seton Hall University.

Men are more inclined to say her gender is a benefit to her campaign, and women are more likely to say it is a barrier.

From Viola Davis» inspiring Emmys speech to Ruth Bader Ginsberg's brave fight (and win) for the legalization of same - sex marriage, and from Misty Copeland breaking down race barriers in the dance world to Amy Schumer slamming gender stereotypes in her show, women have made giant leaps this year, setting exceptional examples for little girls everywhere.

A patient's age, gender, smoking status, and weight should not be barriers to a referral.

Although most of their members are from the U.S., it also caters to users from across the globe, and there are no barriers for those hoping to pursue a romance with the same gender.

Working in a male dominated industry, women must navigate gendered financial barriers and exclusionary hiring practices as they pursue movie making.

For shattering gender and age barriers, all with finesse and grace, the HFPA is humbled to bestow this honor upon her.»

While challenging gender and class barriers thanks to her position of power, she also becomes romantically entangled with the court's landscape artist (Matthias Schoenaerts).