Not exact matches
Much like the Civil Rights era in the US succeeded in part because individuals who didn't have something clear to gain stepped up publicly as allies, Leader - Chivée sees a similar parallel with
women in the workplace, noting that «it takes a lot of men stepping up» to help effect long - lasting
change.
The company insisted it had
not changed the specifications for the clothing, but is warning of a shortage of the extraordinarily popular clothing items, which make up about 17 per cent of all
women's pants and crop pants in its stores.
The increasing availability of education, coupled with shifting roles in the home for
women, is
not only
changing women's lives but also reworking attitudes toward gender differences and equality.
Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant
change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help
women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.
Measures such as quotas that force placement of a higher number of
women into leadership may provide rapid results, but may
not do much to help get rid of the bias, and won't
change a company's culture.
Unfortunately, the way
women are treated in the workplace overall hasn't
changed much.
When I talk to my mother, who is of that same generation, she speaks of the
women who attended Seven Sisters» colleges as strong and independent, career - minded, and determined to
change society — certainly
not the idea I had in my head.
While in 2013, Buffett argued that «
women are a major reason we will do so well» in an essay for Fortune Magazine, he also warned that the great «enemy of
change» lives in «the ingrained attitudes of those who simply can't imagine a world different from the one they've lived in.»
But I think history has shown that the power being discussed is a
woman's sex appeal or desirability,
not how much they're
changing the world.»
«To get the full
change to happen, we probably need
not only greater representation of
women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for
women to lend a helping hand to other
women in the work place.»
MM.LaFleur was created to cater to
women whose work days can look more like 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and who might
not want to devote their limited free time to trying on work dresses in a
changing room.
«The parents of the Millennial generation grew up in a feminist world, whether they claimed the label or
not,» says Freedman «
Women brought in a substantial part of family income and aspirations for women's educations changed... Now I think this current generation could be a breakthrough generation for feminism.&r
Women brought in a substantial part of family income and aspirations for
women's educations changed... Now I think this current generation could be a breakthrough generation for feminism.&r
women's educations
changed... Now I think this current generation could be a breakthrough generation for feminism.»
After 100 years, there likely won't be a whole lot of
change to the ratio of people defined as working age in Canada (and certainly there will be more working
women than there were in 1950).
Another
women, who appeared to be a climate
change protestor, yelled, «Please don't let Exxon run the State Department.
The younger the
woman, the more likely she is to embrace her body and
not change anything.
That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't
change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population
not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the
women in question feel about it.
Some of the traits that [
women] may have been trying to hide or didn't think were as valuable before are actually incredibly valuable today, given how the world has
changed and how people expect companies to run with a much more open, understanding and outward - facing attitude.
Anne Wojcicki was raised to
change things,
not complain about them, whether what's bugging her is the state of American healthcare or the underrepresentation of
women in technology jobs.
While it probably wouldn't
change Sessions» mind on the issue, the CBO found that in an oddly backhanded way, requiring
women to register for the draft would actually save the government tens of millions of dollars in the years ahead.
«It comes down to this engagement issue,» says Mizgala, emphasizing that the wealth industry simply hasn't kept up with the
changing social realities surrounding
women and wealth.
According to the «Full Participation Report,» about 55 percent of
women globally are part of the labor force, compared with 82 percent of men, and the gap between men and
women has
not changed significantly since 1995.
«You have to actually
change your processes and practices, you have to
change how you think about the work,
not just for
women but also for men,» she says, seeing the need for men to participate equally at home.
The flaws in this model aren't going to disappear overnight:
Women and minorities will need to intentionally adapt their styles to beat the system and
change it from within.
A short video from one female executive won't
change that, but hopefully a lot more
women in positions of power and a growing awareness that burning the midnight oil takes a serious toll on families, relationships and even individuals (
not to mention a more equitable sharing of housework and childcare between the sexes) will slowly make it safe for more of us to say to our bosses — or admit to ourselves — what Sandberg has just said publicly.
Together, Sandberg has spent 2013 righting the ship of the world's foremost social network and galvanizing social
change — otherwordly feats that you'd expect to come from two very different people,
not one hard - hustling
woman.
«There aren't a lot of
women entrepreneurs competing with men, but hopefully that will
change.»
Reducing power differentials can help,
not only because
women are less likely than men to harass but also because their presence in management can
change workplace culture.
But there is a generation of innovative
women entrepreneurs pushing for
change, fighting for opportunity, and who aren't taking no for an answer.
What's worse is that the average size of US
women - owned firms has
not changed significantly in 17 years.
Not many people can say that they
change lives, crush goals, empower
women and cultivate long - lasting friendships on a daily basis.
«I don't need
women to
change
For example, the «Tyrant» script was
changed to make clear that one character's poor treatment of
women does
not derive from Islam, Al - Marayati said.
I don't anticipate seeing
women priests or other necessary
changes, but I am optimistic for movement in the right direction.
Women who enter these professions do
not change them; they are
changed by the professions, and if they do
not perform well they are out.
The founder and director of Charis, who can't be named for safeguarding reasons, said:» We want the
women to know Jesus loves them, and can
change their lives too if they want that.
«There's a wider issue of culture here,
not just law, to
change the view that in any way people should feel it's acceptable and right to pay for sex... This is exploiting and commodifying
women.»
I wish I were
not one but nothing can
change it as I was raised in a Baptist Church by a brutal bigot of a
woman.
People can
change their mind, which is why now African Americans have their civil rights and are
not segregated anymore, and
women have their civil right too.
For a
Woman to make this decision is a tough one, and I don't believe that there are very many people that are just o.k. with this life
changing issue.
If nothing ever
changed and we listened to every time that the bible or anything else was used to say let's stay the same —
women would
not have the vote, there would be no equality of the races, we would still be burning witches.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their
women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are
not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
The numbers may reflect
not only the
changing roles of
women in the church over that time period, but in society as well.
Becoming more tolerant to gays, more left leaning, hipper, modern, or whatever else you want to throw out there still doesn't
change the fact that Christianity is based on a lie about a man who supposedly walked on water, reincarnated, was born from a
woman who claimed to a be virgin, and
changed water in to wine.
So a
woman could
not take Christ's Bride, the Church, for her Spouse; the Church can
not change the Truth to suit people's ideas of today if it goes against the Truth.
Your god finally
changed his mind in the mid 1800's and decided that black men should vote too — but
not any
women.
As that
woman was asked about what
changed in her religious life after she «met» Yeshua, she said, «
Not that much.»
With these
changes the only functions a licensed
woman pastor can
not perform are the formal organization of churches and the ordination of others.
Cause let me tell you, I am attracted to
women and whether or
not I am in a relationship that doesn't
change.
I learned this
not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a
woman whose obedience
changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned
woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though
women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the
woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to
women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the
woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician
woman, talked theology with a Samaritan
woman, and healed a bleeding
woman; who appeared first before
women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.
I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had
changed —
not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and
women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with
women he called «co-workers.»