Sentences with phrase «of those few women»

As one of the few women in a top job at a major U.S. tech company, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty did not have an easy time getting there.

Not only is «Blockers» one of the few women - directed movies coming from a major studios this year, but it's sex - positive message about consent and societal pressures around people losing their virginity make it an incredible feat in the midst of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement.

And what I hate is that women are always asked the question about diversity, and if you're one of the few women in the room, you feel obligated to raise it as an issue, when you would rather far often talk about the economics of something.

Along with partner, MPWM Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, her company, Aspect Ventures, is one of the few women - led venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.

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Description: As one of the few women leading a venture capital firm in the United States, Sara Brand specifically seeks out other female - led companies to invest in.

The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet's damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls.

Endeavour Forum is one of the few women's organisations which speaks out against the oppression of women under Islam — not just radical Islam as in ISIS and Boko Haram, but mainstream Islam which allows polygamy, child marriage, discrimination against women in divorce proceedings and inheritance laws.

From my own experience, with Child 1 I couldn't pump nearly enough milk so we ended up buying lots of formula anyway (between that, the cost of the pump and the hands - free bras, the cost of the journey to get his tongue tie snipped, and the extra maternity leave I took, I may well be one of the few women to have made an overall loss from breastfeeding).

Throughout my IT career I got used to being one of the few women working in a department filled with guys.

March is Women's History Month and we are proud to celebrate by acknowledging the contributions of a few women who have made their mark on the world.

A peep into the background of the few women selected for the award reveals iconic women who have made their marks in their different fields of endeavour.

The Minister of State for Employment and one of the few women in David Cameron's male - dominate cabinet, Esther McVey had only held Wirral West since 2010.

Cuomo's administration recently lost counsel Mylan Denerstein — one of its highest - ranking female aides, and one of few women ever to have made it into the governor's inner circle.

At one month shy of 55, I'm often one of the few women in the water at my local break, but in other areas there are more «surfer girls.»

You are one of few women who genuinely ROCK jeans / pants, honey!

I think I'm one of the few women that actually really enjoys sexting It's safe «sex» and I don't have to leave the comfort of my living room

She was actually one of the few women we found and chatted with that looked normal.

The documentary focuses on the stories and experiences of a few women who joined in the lawsuit that led to the verdict that their experiences were an «occupational hazard.»

And she appears to be one of the few women in the Big Apple who has never taken a bite.

She's one of the few women to ever direct a sports film with «McFarland, USA» and she helmed «The Zoo Keeper's Wife.»

Not only is she one of the few women in the movie (Cooper confirmed this week that Bulger's girlfriend Catherine Greig, played by Sienna Miller, was cut from the story), she's arguably the most reasonable player in the narrative.

Comedy bias aside, Haddish is also one of few women of color to land considerable awards chatter this year.

Lee Krasner was creating her art as one of the few woman - artists - together with Eline De Kooning - of the first generation American Abstract Expressionism.

Ms. House, the 1999 National Superintendent of the Year and one of the few women to lead a major urban school system, will leave the 112,000 - student district April 3.

She's one of the few women privileged to be invited to these quail roasts,...

After all, queens were some of the few women with access to power during most of recorded history.

She has been one of the few women to make her name as a writer in the world of long - form immersion - based narrative.

As one of the few women currently leading a national animal welfare organization, Kogut also advocates for the achievements of women in animal welfare and the critical role that female leaders will continue to play in solving complex issues in the pet industry.

Martin was one of the few women on the scene in Coenties Slip, a world that was dominated by gay men, including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly.

She was one of the few women members of The Club in the 10th Street / Cedar Bar days.

She was the first of few women accepted into the Artists» Club and participated as an artist in the Works Progress Administration during the depression.

She returned to New York City where she became one of the few women associated with the New York School.

Lehmann Maupin 536 W. 22nd St., [phone] Through June 13 Mary Corse (b. 1945) was one of the few women involved in the 1960s - and - on Southern California art movement called «Light & Space,» which typically featured ultra-minimal architectural environments instead of more conventional art objects such as paintings and sculptures.

Rasdjarmrearnsook is one of the few women in Thailand making art in an international context.

Despite being one of the few women ever to have had a retrospective show at MoMA, she is still often a side - note, referred to merely as Jackson Pollock's wife.

Pearl Fine, Unequivocably Blue, 1967 April 7 — June 26, 2009 Perle Fine (1905 - 1988) was one of the few women artists in the inner circle of the Abstract Expressionism movement.

Opening: «Hedda Sterne: Machines 1947 - 1951» at Van Doren Waxter One of the few women in the New York School of artists and poets, a group of post-war American artists that included the Abstract Expressionist painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Hedda Sterne was a Romanian - born painter and sculptor who made work that ranged from surrealism to expressionism between the 1940s and her death at 100 years old in 2011.

The accompanying catalogue also investigates the critical response to Frankenthaler's work as that of one of the few women working in the male - dominated Abstract Expressionist art scene.

Currently on view are works on paper by Abstract Expressionist Perle Fine, who was a member of Hans Hofmann's circle in the 1940s and»50s and is notable for being one of the few women members of the seminal 8th Street Club.

Dedicated with serious focus to art from the late 1930s until her death at age 95, Thomas was one of few women to be part of the early generation of Abstract Expressionists.

Abbott was one of the few women to attend the school and felt that Newman and Rothko «taught us to draw imagination.»

Ms. Holt, who lived and worked for many years in Galisteo, N.M., was one of the few women to pursue monumental sculpture in the American West, a place whose wide - open spaces drew a generation of restless artists like Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, James Turrell and Robert Smithson, whom Ms. Holt married in 1963.

In some ways, this was the magic ingredient in the work of this artist, who was one of the few women to garner the critical acclaim given to such male Abstract Expressionist counterparts as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.

In the early» 9os, Bates broke barriers by becoming one of the few women to work in the 3d animation / VFX field.

At 23, she was a widow, and one of the few women to participate in the burgeoning scene around the Ferus Gallery, a locus of West Coast cool whose artists included Edward Kienholz, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses and Ken Price.

Among the many milestones she achieved at Con Edison, she is one of few women utility company executives in America and was one of the first women in New York City to receive a stationary engineer's license.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Nancy Holt (5/4/1938 -8 / 2/2014), she is a pioneer and one of the few women artists involved in Land Art and Public Art.

After twenty years on Wall Street, and as one of the few women Managing Directors in the institutional investment business, Leila took up painting with great zeal.

One of the few women to rise to international prominence in modern sculpture, Hepworth is the grande dame of modernism — quite literally, since she was knighted by the Queen for her contributions to British art.