Sentences with phrase «powerful women between»

«There's this tension with some of us successful, powerful women between wanting to smash the glass ceiling and also having a life that is our own,» she says.

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Under Armour Chief Executive Kevin Plank said they are «particularly excited» about a global woman's campaign that features ballerina Misty Copeland and model Gisele Bündchen, which he claims «ignited a powerful new dialogue with our female consumer as we begin to bridge the gap between female athletes and athletic females.»

How one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley splits her time between her day job and investing.

The United State of Women Summit isn't just a conference — it's a powerful gathering of women and allies from across the country who know their energy and power will break down barriers that stand between women and full equaWomen Summit isn't just a conference — it's a powerful gathering of women and allies from across the country who know their energy and power will break down barriers that stand between women and full equawomen and allies from across the country who know their energy and power will break down barriers that stand between women and full equawomen and full equality.

Women on Business, posed to be a powerful network online, has a goal to see that power grow and to broaden the online discussion between today's male and female business thought leaders.

«Perhaps the most powerful of the pro-choice arguments,» Ms. Crandall points out, was that illegality of abortion would leave America in «the dark ages when thousands of women died because of unsafe, back - alley abortions — between five thousand and ten thousand a year was the figure usually given» in the 1970s.

She rightly saw the distrust between men and women as being rooted in the unequal distribution of power between them: «At any given time, the more powerful side will create an ideology suitable to help maintain its position and to make this position more acceptable to the weaker one... It is the function of such an ideology to deny or conceal the existence of a struggle.»

Lust is that powerful and self - centered aspect of sexual attraction that obscures the relationship and respect between man and woman, husband and wife.

A close parallel is observable between a comment by an early protagonist of the theory, Dorwin Cartwright, who in 1949 suggested that, «it is conceivable that one persuasive person could, through the use of mass media, bend the world's population to his will,» (3) and the 1979 affirmation by NRB Executive Secretary Ben Armstrong, «I believe that God has raised up this powerful technology of radio and television expressly to reach every man, woman, boy, and girl on earth with the even more powerful message of the gospel.»

It would be easy to file this under the category of «men behaving badly,» to dismiss it as a testosterone - induced, hard - wired connection between sex and power (powerful men attract women, powerful women repel men).

In honor of International Women's Day, we sat down with two powerful women who inspire us to set goals, work hard, be kind, and get in a good sweat in betWomen's Day, we sat down with two powerful women who inspire us to set goals, work hard, be kind, and get in a good sweat in betwomen who inspire us to set goals, work hard, be kind, and get in a good sweat in between.

However, the fact is that God did create the idea of sex as a means of making the union between a married man and woman all the more powerful.

It will keep law enforcement from wasting resources intended to fight serious issues like human trafficking on investigations of legitimate international dating agencies and help reduce the still powerful stigma against the overwhelmingly positive relationships between Western men and foreign women that start online.

Powerful, passionate women know that love is a beautiful thing and to cherish it when it comes, but they also know the difference between loving someone, being in love, and being in love with love.

There is an awful lot of rose - tinted nostalgia here for a time when women sat passively while powerful men threw wealth at them, but the interesting difference here is that the power dynamic between Red Riding Hood and the Wolf shifts.

A great Marxist once noted that «the boldest revolution,» like even the most powerful bourgeois institution, can not divide equally between men and women «the burden of pregnancy, birth, nursing, and the rearing of children.»

The fate of the country and it's most powerful family now lies with one idealistic young man torn between the needs of the people, the greed of his father, and the undying love of woman.

There's a murky, tenuous balance between reality and fiction... particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide.

Iram Haq's sophomore feature is a powerful story of a young woman growing up between two cultures, with no control over her life choices, who must carve out her own path despite a significant culture clash.

But above all, «Brooklyn» is a showcase for Ronan, who embodies this young woman torn between two sides of the world, each with powerful influences on the life she has and the one she longs for.

Societal issues are often perceived through the prism of the fraught relationships between men and women, culminating in a powerful scene of romantic mismatch / longing in a van driven through the night.

Her story is a powerful commentary on the power dynamics and differential between men and women.

With achingly honest prose and riveting characters, The Confusion of Languages plunges readers into a shattering collision between two women and two worlds, affirming Siobhan Fallon as a powerful voice in American fiction and a storyteller not to be missed.

A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women — one dying, the other called to care for her — from an internationally acclaimed and award - winning author.

Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell (Random House) Some people might think I'm crazy for recommending this tearjerker to a person going through a breakup, but I have my reasons: This is an engrossing story of a powerful friendship between two women, and it can be refreshing to read a book that portrays a meaningful, non-romantic relationship.

From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women's relationship to power?and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

Neither have had a «friend», and discover the friendship between women is very powerful.

What follows is a story about how, in very different ways, the Fitzmaurice women adapt, survive, and manage to bring the whole teeming world of New York to heel by dint of their smart mouths, quick wits, and the powerful connection between them that even the worst tragedy can not shatter.

How do their powerful fathers make the rivalry between these two women worse?

Why is the battle between women's and men's worlds so long and powerful?

There's a great dynamic between the classical composition and the asymmetric woman's face that creates a powerful pull into the story.

For example, I was forced at one point in the game to choose between helping a frail woman who was afraid that someone was trying to hurt her against the decision to continue a conversation with an influential individual who could potentially become a powerful ally later on.

Beginning with her early photographic series Women of Allah (1993 - 1997), and continuing through her current practice, Neshat has consistently and fluently probed issues of gender, power, displacement, protest, identity, and the space between the personal and the political with a singular and powerful aesthetic.

It was a little striking seeing Rex Tillerman, the CEO of Exxon sitting between two powerful advocates for women, Salbi and Edna Adan, a hugely impressive woman who runs a hospital in Somaliland, and was apparently the first women to drive a car in Somalia.

Another is Judith Lewis Herman, whose book TRAUMA AND RECOVERY (Basic Books, New York 1992) draws powerful connections between the experiences of women in long - term abusive relationships, combat veterans, and prisoners of war.

Mediation, feminists assume, does not affect the existing power imbalance between men and women members of divorcing couples, with the result that the more powerful male spouse typically wins more than an equal share of the marital assets.