Sentences with phrase «team of women who»

It's basically a team of women who scour the country for its best finds, and places to eat, and ship the deets

Created by a team of women who wanted to change the dating app scene, Bumble is a straightforward and well - organized app where women make the first move.

That was back in the early 1930s, when «computers» were usually teams of women who performed rote calculations.

Not exact matches

For those who do pursue this line of work, often they are the only women on their team.

The following day, I scoured my LinkedIn connections and found that I do not have a vibrant personal network of trailblazing women who also have experience running complex product teams.

The film has not only put a long deserved spotlight on the team of African - American women who literally charted the course that would eventually put man on the moon, but it has also inspired many young women to pursue interests in STEM.

Less heralded by history was a group of six women who worked in wartime secrecy at the University of Pennsylvania, where John Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team that was building ENIAC, the world's first programmable, all - electronic, general - purpose computer.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

Craig Newmark, a member of the Advisory team for Women Who Tech, is the founder of craigslist, the web - based platform that has fundamentally changed classified advertising.

In a panel discussion following a Saturday screening of the film in New York, Sarkeesian — a San Francisco entrepreneur who with her team of four creates the video series Feminist Frequency — addressed possible responses to the online abuse women face from gamers, ex-boyfriends and other venomous sources.

One of Ault's prime concerns relates not to the eight convicted capital murderers who are set to die, but to the men and women of the execution team who are being asked, just as he was two decades ago, to kill in the name of justice.

Plum Alley Investments is a NY - based group of female investors who invest in women entrepreneurs and gender - balanced teams.

Theresia Gouw, whom Time magazine has dubbed one of the 10 most powerful women in technology, is leaving Accel Partners to team with Jennifer Fonstad, who has advised much of the international investing for Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

We just talked about it on Friday with a CEO who has a couple of women on the company's leadership team and basically said, look, we have four men on the board who look alike — white and in their 30s and 40s.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

Chris Duffett was on a street evangelism team with 12 bored teenagers who mostly didn't believe that God could do anything supernatural — but one got a clear picture of a woman in a red jacket with a fur collar, wearing black boots, and with severe stomach pain.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

I know of a beautiful young woman who was part of a prayer room who was asked to leave by the governing body because she complained the three middle - aged men on the prayer team were saying highly inappropriate things about her body, and the men's wives suggested she should leave for everyone's sake!

Duru and his research team devised an eight - week, faith - based intervention program for 62 African - American women, age 60 or older, who reported engaging in 30 minutes of exercise less than three times per week.

A huge thank you and God - bless - you to Pastor Helen Burns and the team at Relate Church who always put together a conference of women that feels more like a movement.

I'm guessing there are plenty of women out there who could relate similar stories about what it's like to be a minority in the office, board room, or church leadership team.

Assuming the role overseeing the resort's largest division with 1,200 team members, Toscano is described as a self - made woman who carved out her food and beverage career at the casino over the course of 20 years.

Record - setting 17 - year - old Katie Hoff led a new wave of Americans who made a splash at the nationals and are ready to reestablish the U.S. as the world's No. 1 women's team

Suspended Indefinitely by Colorado State, four members of the women's basketball team who set off a chemical bomb outside a teammate's apartment as a prank.

Consider: Cal has one of the best programs in the country, but its team includes both Olympians and women who are just discovering crew — as if the 12th man on the Duke basketball team were learning the game a month before the season.

Muriel Grossfeld, who succeeded Edwards for the 1968 and»72 Olympics (when it was felt by many women in the sport that a female coach should lead the women's team), says, «He is one of the better coaches in the country — among the four or five I would call the best.»

She knows that Taurasi came from the town of Chino, in sunny Southern California, to the icy Storrs campus not because she wanted to follow in the footsteps of the great Lady Huskies who helped bring two national championships to UConn before she got there but because in the cozy Nutmeg State, Huskies basketball is Showtime, for the men's and women's teams.

Spotted on the always excellent 101 Great Goals who believe this very attractive Greek national team fan to be the mother of the young child in front of her, though we are not convinced as the child may well be the offspring of the woman to his right.

Those who swear by the powder include major league sluggers Brady Anderson, Edgar Martinez and Gary Sheffield; members of the 1996 U.S. Olympic women's volleyball team; and three fourths of the San Francisco 49ers.

Louisville's Chris Jones, who was recently kicked off the team, has been charged with rape and sodomy of two separate women,...

With Arsenal being the only one of the four FA cup semi-finalists not currently occupying a place in the top four of the Premier League, and of course the fact that the Gunners are currently playing like a bunch of drunken old women, the chances are that the team who lifts the FA cup trophy next month will not be claiming their place in the Europa League next season.

As the event coordinator of the Sacramento Sirens Cheer Elite team, Danielle along with Misty Dawn (who is the Sirens head coach) have led their teams to perform and support the Sacramento Sirens (full contact) football team which is part of the Independent Women's Football League — IWFL.

For girls especially, a freshman with talent will be on varsity, so often the JV team is made up of young women who just want to see what high school basketball is like — and most of them discover it's harder than they thought.

SENIOR WRITER GRANT WAHL was at the sold - out Rose Bowl in 1999 for the Women's World Cup final, when the U.S. national team beat China in a penalty - kick shootout and made the covers of SI, TIME and Newsweek in the same week: Here was a team of pioneering women who personified the goals of TitlWomen's World Cup final, when the U.S. national team beat China in a penalty - kick shootout and made the covers of SI, TIME and Newsweek in the same week: Here was a team of pioneering women who personified the goals of Titlwomen who personified the goals of Title IX.

«We're going to be able to help people rebuild houses and get their homes back, and that's more important than any win,» a drained, but smiling, Lewis said after finishing with a 3 - under 69, a 20 - under for the week, and hugging her husband Gerrod Chadwell, who had flown in from Houston, where he coaches the University of Houston's women's golf team, to surprise her after Sunday's tension - filled finale.

At the meeting Spears, her manager Larry Rudolph and producer Ann Carli, who produced the singer's first feature, Crossroads, pitched NASCAR brass on a story about the daughter of a successful stock car team owner and how the young woman (played by Spears) inspires a former driver to return to the sport.

One of the articles profiles Oxford's women teams, who experienced a fantastic year of sport following the Olympics.

It was also a successful day for our women's tennis team, who beat University of Manchester 2nd team 10 - 2.

It's been a great season so far for our women's tennis team, who sit near the top of the BUCS Northern 2A with seven points, ahead of this week's opposition on «goal difference».

For instance: Earlier this month, the Seattle Times investigated the reported numbers of women who row for the University of Washington and «found dozens of women who appear to have not been on the women's rowing team, but whom the UW counted as crew participants in reports to federal officials over the past several years.»

An actual conversation between an English woman and Polish woman who wouldn't know a football from a handbag, but the Polish woman nodded at the English woman's explanation as if the realms of supporting a football team came second nature to her.

Despite that, the team still boasts a potent attack with U.S. Women's National Team star forward Alex Morgan, former URFC forward Sydney Leroux, promising young player Rachel Hill who scored 9 goals in Australia's W - League this year, and Brazilian legend Marta, the 5 - time FIFA World Player of the Yteam still boasts a potent attack with U.S. Women's National Team star forward Alex Morgan, former URFC forward Sydney Leroux, promising young player Rachel Hill who scored 9 goals in Australia's W - League this year, and Brazilian legend Marta, the 5 - time FIFA World Player of the YTeam star forward Alex Morgan, former URFC forward Sydney Leroux, promising young player Rachel Hill who scored 9 goals in Australia's W - League this year, and Brazilian legend Marta, the 5 - time FIFA World Player of the Year.

Representing the women is Delhi 2010 silver medallist Lizzie Armitstead who is joined by a strong team of riders including road professionals Emma Pooley and Lucy Garner.

Meanwhile, the women's team comprises the trio of athletes who filled the top three spots at last weekend's London Marathon — Mary Keitany, world champion Edna Kiplagat and world silver medallist Priscah Jeptoo.

Neville would love a sell - out crowd to cheer on the Lionesses against Wales on Friday at Southampton, who Sky sources understand have applied to have a team in the second tier of the Women's Super League like Manchester United.

Women, particularly the mothers who volunteer, are often the backbone of what makes a youth sports team work smoothly.

Women have a wide range of options when it comes to where they want to give birth and who they want on their birth team.

When we launched the Healthy Mama, Happy Baby program, our team was surprised by the number of women who joined because they were preparing to become pregnant.

It was a team effort from the women of Yorkshire who donated their milk for our baby and filled our freezer with food for our family and were a source of strength, love, support, knowledge and encouragement through everything.

Twenty percent of the women who had lactation consultants only were frequently breastfeeding at three months, compared to 17 percent of those who got the consultant and electronic prompts and only 8 percent in the comparison group, Bonuck's team reports in the American Journal of Public Health.