I get invited a lot to do speeches to groups, and I'm always asked
questions about being a woman trying to make things work today.
Not exact matches
About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.) were asked a number of questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate bo
About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.)
were asked a number of
questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate bo
about their experiences in business, and also
about the fact that so few women serve on corporate bo
about the fact that so few
women serve on corporate boards.
We
were asking urgent
questions about whether
women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever
be treated with dignity and respect.
INSIDER asked two gynecologists to weigh in on a
question that many people
are asking: should
women using IUDs
be worried
about depression?
I once saw (but frustratingly can't currently locate) a great headline on an article responding to the
question of why
women are less aggressive
about negotiating compensation than men.
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.
To understand why graduation rates in computer science
are so low for
women, we only need to answer one
question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only
about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?
While she has nothing against Sandberg, whom she praises as super smart and extremely supportive of
women's ambitions, Trunk still has
questions about whether Sandberg's success
is actually an appealing option for the vast majority of
women.
This
is standard marine thinking; enlisted men and
women and officers alike
are expected to express concern
about questionable decisions and orders, and one of the biggest mistakes an officer can make
is to ignore or squelch such
questioning.
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.
In fact, eight of the 12 companies on the list drew higher scores from
women than from men in response to
questions about whether they believe they
're paid fairly, if they
're satisfied with stock / equity compensatio, and if they
're satisfied with their benefits.
She tackled this
question by writing
about her experience at the World Bank working with clients in the Middle East, highlighting her confidence in
being able to present as a
woman even in environments that
were dominated by men.
There
are a lot of
questions in the media now
about why
women are gathering; why black people
are gathering; why black lives matter.
They discovered the investors (and 40 percent of them
were women) tended to ask men
questions about the potential for gains at their startups, while they asked
women about the potential for losses.
Questions have also arisen
about whether other
women were paid hush money.
But fired up as I
was about porn culture and sexual violence, and
questioning attitudes towards
women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages
about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.
And this
is the
question that neither the LCWR nor its defenders, like Tom Fox, ever engage: If what you've
been doing for
about 40 years
is so right, why do young
women not find it attractive?
The
question of
women's ordination
is regarded as church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think
about whether progress in dialogue
is to
be expected at all.»
You began talking
about the essential nature of God, how God's relationship to us
is mirrored more in (any) man than (any)
woman, regardless of the gender of the person in
question.
Aside from the stereotyping of men as obsessed with sex and hindering to
women fulfilling their potential with vitriol there
is a good
question being asked
about fulfilment of dreams.
Is the
question «What did Jesus think
about women?»
And it
was evangelicalism that first told me that
being a
woman limited my potential, that science
was not to
be trusted, that democrats and gay people and Episcopalians
were my enemies, that asking
questions about these things
was wrong.
The
question before anyone who cares
about the fate of men and
women in the modern world
is the
question how a really saving faith can
be encouraged and promoted.
Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon
Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different
questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God
was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he
was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.
And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things
about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging
questions being raised by
women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.
In a recent
question - and - answer segment with John Piper posted on desiringgod.com, Piper spoke
about his beliefs on
women teaching in seminary and, relatedly,
being pastors themselves.
The same
question can
be raised
about women becoming equal to men in a church which has lost its way, or in a political system which
is no longer responsive to people.
I talked with a
woman yesterday who has
questions about God, but
is pretty sure she hates him.
It
is in suffering that the whole human
question about God arises; for incomprehensible suffering calls the God of men and
women in
question.
After determining that I
was not just another moralist who wanted to influence film content, but someone who
was genuinely interested in film, Shurlock relaxed and asked me a
question that
was very much on his mind: «We
are trying to determine what to do
about a picture in which director Sidney Lumet wants to include a shot of a
woman's bare breasts.
And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness
is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything
is still
about thee as it
is in eternity — whether thou
wast man or
woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall
be remembered as long as the world stands (and so
was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee
was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one
question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou
wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou
wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.
It
is necessary, therefore, to sketch out in conclusion some interpretive principles which might assist in answering
questions about woman's place in marriage and church.
We need to ask this
question about married
women who
are abused by their husbands,
about single persons who
are not in position to marry,
about those who have
been divorced,
about those heterosexuals who have no access to members of the opposite sex,
about men who
are impotent.
But it
is about the larger
question — how do we view
women?
Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family
is formed from a man and a
woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.
She
was excommunicated just for asking
questions of the elders
about a
woman's role in the church.
My friend Sarah heard them when her
questions about women's ordination
were met with charges that she didn't take the Bible seriously.
Ultimately, Charlie
's question about the meaning of Christmas points to one that
's set in the hearts of all men and
women: Isn't there more than this?
To the Sadducee and Pharisee, how he responded to the
question about the
woman married to seven brothers
was professionally perilous.
Responding to this reality, and getting real
about priorities, Msgr. Joseph Champlin, well - known writer and lecturer, told the diocesan paper of St. Cloud, Minn., «The big
question is not
about the ordination of
women or married clergy or the decline in clergy or pedophilia or abortion or assisted suicide.
She wrote at length
about this and other Christian issues to a
woman identified in Fitzgerald's collection only as «A.» «There
is a
question whether faith can or
is supposed to
be emotionally satisfying.
The pressure of this issue
is evident as men and
women, clergy and laity, ask gender
questions about the profession.
This blunt and provocative book, now a best seller,
is meant to shake up what Manji calls mainstream Islam, to which she puts her honest
questions about fundamentalist attitudes toward
women, human rights, Jews, the U.S. and even the Qur» an.
To me Jesus it
is giving the
woman the choice to follow him isnt the
question go and sin no more
about repentence turning from our lives of sinfulness to follow him the one who saves.
One
woman told me recently she
was told to stop asking difficult
questions about the Bible at house group.
Rather than considering the possibility that such narrations reflect genuine conflict over the
question of selective abortion, Rapp suggests that these
women are unwitting victims of both pro-life propaganda and an atavistic ambivalence
about the entry of
women into the workplace.
Since then, there have
been many bloggers passionately writing their opinions
about the
question «
Is it unbiblical for
women to work outside the home?»
When he
questions a striking and intelligent
woman about her past and her relationship with a very ordinary, but safe, friend and confidante, he
is told that he could never understand.
An American
woman that jokes
about not
being a virgin, and laughs at the
question..
I will never
be able to see another item of pornography without
being flooded by
questions about the
women pictured:
Was this one an incest victim?