Sentences with phrase «voice of women in»

In 1992, after NWAC was left out of discussions that resulted in the failed Charlottetown Accord, members of the organization formally challenged the government's unwillingness to include the voice of women in the debates over constitutional and Indigenous self - determination.

Serving as both writer and director, Paul Weitz superbly captures the voice of women in everyday life, while honestly portraying what, and HOW, we express our thoughts and feelings to each other.

«Labour is still the voice of women in parliament,» she said, pointing to the 80 female MPs in the party compared with 45 in the Conservative party.

Oprah is preeminently the voice of women in the middle: middle - class, middle - American and, like Oprah, middle - aged.

I have a tremendous well of hope for the voice of women in the church.

I'd love to hear the prophetic voice of women in our church.

In listening to the voices of women in the early church and to the reporting of, and interpretation of, these voices by dominant male interpreters, we can glimpse the church as a movement in flux, in which paths yet untrodden were becoming pilgrim routes.

From more extreme stories like that of Malala Yousafzai to more relatable stories like this one from my friend Joy Bennett, the world is hearing the voices of women in a way it hasn't before.

Babies like the high - pitched voices of women in general — a fact that most adults seem to understand intuitively and respond to accordingly, without even realizing it.

She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women and co-founded the Women's Media Center, that works to strengthen the voices of women in the media.

The lectures, dedicated to the voices of women in architecture, are a lasting tribute to Ms. Pettersen, her significant impact in the world of architecture, and her love of The Cooper Union.

Not exact matches

Women in particular need to be careful about «conducting» because research has shown that female voices stimulate parts of the male brain used to decipher music.

She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.

The study's authors had 161 participants (who were almost exactly split between men and women) first read a passage in their normal voices to get baseline measures of their voices for things like loudness and pitch.

Agrawal: We're very worried about the state of our country and our rights as women and our reproductive rights, and in order to not move backwards, we are playing our part to make sure that our voices are heard.

Freedom of speech is awarded all Americans, but having the confidence to voice their opinions is another matter — especially for women in the workplace.

The men she interviews notice subtle shifts in women's tone of voice, for example, that make them think their female co-workers are too quick to go on the defensive.

«The gatekeepers can no longer stop people from getting their voices heard, whether they're black, Hispanic, women or disenfranchised,» says JT McCormick, CEO of one of the industry's biggest new players, a company called Book in a Box.

This inaction is a stark reminder that women's voices are still underrepresented in the halls of Congress.

(July 16, 2015 — New York City) Just two years after launching the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment to advancing women - owned business in new markets, WEConnect International and Vital Voices have helped to facilitate and track more than US$ 3 Billion in new spend with women - owned businesses and the training of more than 40,000 women business owners based outside the U.S.

The company gave Alexa a woman's voice and name in the first place, and then set it up for ire and abuse by giving Alexa the impossible task of responding accurately to an infinity of requests and commands.

Milosz does not answer this question in the poem, but his work as poet has always been to give voice to precisely this: all the sad, neglected stories of so many men and women.

Thank you Ms. Morthole for being a voice of reason in a time when neither the Church nor proponents of religious freedom sounds anywhere close to rational when discussing women's health.

But the more time marches on, the more Humanae Vitae appears prophetic, for Paul VI voiced four concerns regarding artificial contraception that have largely become realities: a general lowering of moral standards; increased marital infidelity; the reduction of women to instruments for the fulfillment of male desire; and public authorities engaging in coercive population planning programs.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

But should a pro-lifer raise her voice, use vivid language, or, heck, even pray in front of an abortion clinic, she will often be accused of intimidation and of posing a threat to the safety of women seeking abortions and those who provide them.

When men, who have agency and voice, are silent against the sexual predation of women, they not only contribute to the shame that victims feel, they empower the predators who use wealth and power to continue their assault on our sisters created in the image of God.

Among those gathered here in her modem voice (through scriptural images, verbal echoes, parallel situations) are women whose stories have been muffled in the Bible's tradition — Hagar, Bilhah, Zilpah, Mary, the Lord's «handmaiden,» Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rebekkah, Ruth, Puah and Shiphrah (the Hebrew midwives in Egypt), Jael, Jephthah's daughter, the «Jezebel» of Revelation, and other, unnamed ancestresses, «missing persons without textual authority.

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

Just look at the role it has played in organizing and reporting on the Ferguson and Baltimore protests, in challenging the teachings and behaviors of authoritarian religious leaders, and in amplifying voices that have traditionally been sidelined (like those of women and LGBT Christians).

In the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eyeIn the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eyein our voices and through our eyes.

Just yesterday I was warned by someone that my support for women in ministry and my inclusion of LGBT voices on the blog represented an effort «to be liked by other people and win the approval of the world.»

Yet Dolan did not pull any punches in voicing his objection to the Obama Administration declaring that DOMA is unjust because it defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

- goes a long way to explaining why the Pope's «opinion» is just one more voice added to the cacophony of Oprah, Al Gore, Howard Stern, and the woman in the next cubicle at the office.

The search and struggle for recovering the theological voice of women by changing the discursive frameworks of theology in general and biblical studies in particular has absorbed my own thought and work in the past decade.

A number of women have become the voices of egalitarianism in the last few years.

But in the past fifty years, Christianity has been blamed, with some justification, for the Holocaust, for participating in colonial oppression, for arrogance in dealing with other communities of faith, for ecological destruction, for cruelty to animals, for oppression of women, for repression of the body and its sexuality, for suppressing the voices of minority groups and thus participating in their oppression, for the persecution of gays and Lesbians, and many other crimes.

Her case drew the attention of the whole world, voices of protest and support arose in many countries, Filipino women demonstrated at home and in Hong Kong as well.

The Church has held women ransom for too long, based on what in fact constitutes the basis for the authoritative voice of control of women.

«11 Suddenly, in the midst of that litany of voices from various people, a woman spoke up.

Krister Stendahl gave voice to this in his important essay The Bible and the Role of Women: A Case Study in Hermeneutics written in 1958.6 Donald Dayton expressed a similar position in his article in the Post American: «the real question - at least for most Christians [is]: Which of these views (the hierarchical or the egalitarian — or perhaps a synthesis of the two) has the clearer grounding in scripture?

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).

So I thank Johan for offering another voice to the ever - increasing chorus of men and women who seek to follow Jesus in ways that require courage and creativity.

I have hope because in the middle of that list of conferences who ignore or marginalize women's voices there was the Wild Goose Festival as a stark contrast with nearly 50 % representation.

In order to be Asia Bibi's ghostwriter for the book, you had to tell the story in the voice of a woman you had never seen or talked tIn order to be Asia Bibi's ghostwriter for the book, you had to tell the story in the voice of a woman you had never seen or talked tin the voice of a woman you had never seen or talked to.

«Because I first heard Rachel's voice in reaction to public tomfoolery about women's roles in the church and society, I half - expected A Year of Biblical Womanhood to be sort of... reactionary.

Although Jesus heals this daughter of the promise in a synagogue, and although she is said to respond with praise, her voice is lost in the recorded testimony Like the old prophet Anna in the temple (Luke 2:38), «certain women» who gathered in prayer before Pentecost (Acts 1:14), or the four daughters of Philip who have the gift of prophecy (Acts 21:9), the woman of Luke 13 is not heard.

I know that there are many wonderful books about preaching also written by men — they also fill my bookshelves and I'm grateful — but these particular books have served a special purpose in my own life, reminding me of my unique voice, calling, style, and place in the pulpit as a woman.

«In the past, the lack of infrastructure designed to promote female voices would have held them back; but today, women who are gifted to teach, lead, or encourage have opportunity to actualize these gifts in a public way.&raquIn the past, the lack of infrastructure designed to promote female voices would have held them back; but today, women who are gifted to teach, lead, or encourage have opportunity to actualize these gifts in a public way.&raquin a public way.»

As seen in the case of the new audibility of women's voices, it will have elements that none of the historic cultures have had.