Sentences with phrase «what led a woman»

The question that I was most interested to understand was what led a woman in her early 30s to center her first book around a couple in their 80s?

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She was one of many accomplished female founders who'd converged to talk about what's needed to grow women - led businesses.

I was leading an organization of 80 women and I had no idea what I was doing, but kept modeling what she had done.

As the CEO of Marsh and McLennan, a giant global consulting firm, he advises the men and women leading Fortune 500 companies on the importance of what's known as «leading with purpose.»

«No matter what companies assume about women, you will often see women lead with courage in crisis,» says Kate Bensen, the president and CEO of the women leadership group The Chicago Network.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

BabyCenter, which is still the leading site for pregnant women and new parents, was started by two guys without kids — so we needed to go out and try to understand what it's like to be a pregnant woman.

The topic of what it takes for women to lead in business today is as relevant as it's ever been.

In order to succeed at this game, you have to have enough mind space available to think about the business, leading, innovation, your team — how could you possibly stay competitive if you take on the additional burden of thinking about how hard things are for you or what additional barriers you have to face because you're a woman or have darker skin?

But State Street has never caught up to its targets — leaving Hooley and the Leading Women, the company's gender vanguard, to figure out what makes the growth so lethargic.

Brad Feld, founder of Incubator Techstars, estimates that women - led companies now make up around 10 percent of TechStars» portfolio, and that companies led by immigrants or minority entrepreneurs make up another 10 percent — but of course they can only work with what teams choose to apply.

When three researchers asked 12 breast cancer patients from central Mexico, for instance, what each did right after discovering a lump in her breast, the women's answers revealed a dozen different health care routes — paths that led, in some cases, to markedly different outcomes.

But without specific numbers as to what percentage of his investment went to women and / or minority - led startups (as opposed to funds), we have no way of knowing how effective these efforts are.

What's more, women - led startups last year obtained just 2.2 percent of all VC funding, Brand said, citing statistics from PitchBook, a Seattle company that tracks mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital.

When I rebranded myself from church work to prison work to worship leading to taking food to the woods as a woman... I submit I do know what I am talking about.

Questioning and tossing out old, obsolete ideas is what led to desegregation, women's right to vote, gay marriage (albeit as slow as molasses), and even many simple everyday things.

Churches are usually pretty good about valuing motherhood, but I think that sometimes the intense focus on that aspect of what Christian womanhood means can lead to us devaluing a lot of other amazing things that women can (and do) do for God.

What you are alluding to as «something deeper» is consistent with what has been perceived by your prime minister leading him to appoint half of the positions in government to be woWhat you are alluding to as «something deeper» is consistent with what has been perceived by your prime minister leading him to appoint half of the positions in government to be wowhat has been perceived by your prime minister leading him to appoint half of the positions in government to be women.

We who proclaim Christ ought to have enough faith that our Lord is what we claim him to be, to permit such men and women to have, if not full then some limited, participation in Christian life in the community of faith; for we are confident, or we should be confident if we really believe what we say about Jesus, that such fellowship with him in the company of his people will lead them more and more deeply into the true significance of his person.

Ask questions and find out what the women around you are achieving, creating, and leading.

Men claimed they wanted what women have become... and the women followed their lead.

What is new is that women in the diaconate will be the explicit focus of a commission set up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that half of the theologians named by the Pope to serve on it are women, and that a leading advocate for women's admission to the diaconate, Professor Phyllis Zagano of Hofstra University, is one of the members.

Within that bond, protected as they are by promises of fidelity and permanence, sexual relations nourish the unity of the couple, lead to the procreation of children, and provide a most immediate way for a man and a woman to learn what it is to love another as one loves oneself.

You seem to have highlighted particular sins as though some are worse than others all sin leads to death not just the big ones because we all are sinners.All have gone astray none are righteous.I believe the worst sin is pride idolatry is the first commandment we set ourselves as Gods.Regardless of what the sin is, our hearts are condemned by our pride.It wasnt the sin of homosexuality or sexual deviance that destroyed sodom.It was there pride and it is one of our biggest stumbling blocks in our christian walk or it certainly was for me.We look at the story of the adulterous woman and we think adultery is a terrible crime but the story is for our benefit to show that we all are sinners that Jesus does nt condemn us but came to save us.And when Jesus says go and sin no more he was not only talking to the woman but everyone else that was around judging her for her sin its a universal message that we all need to see that we all are condemned because of our sin that Jesus came to save us and that we turn from our sin and follow him.Because he is the way the truth and the life.brentnz

Podles postulates that this eventually led to the notion that women, because of what some modern writers call their «will to surrender, the readiness to be receptive,» enjoy a preferential option to receive the grace of Christ.

On page 254, I quote again from Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood to share what John Piper and Wayne Grudem say there about women teaching and leading in the church.

A leading conservative woman sent me this email in response to my Perry» c probably won't win thing: I agree that it will be a close election, no matter what.

This leads me to my question: What would you think about me (a woman) giving him my number?

God would prefer men in this role so if I knew any better you probably got divorce at least once trying to take the place of the man and lead the house because that is exactly what you sound like a women who will not play the role she is meant to play and just be submissive.

They reveal what's in the heart and these kinds of words have been shown to lead to cultures of rape and marginalization of not only women, but many others who are not in places of power.

Which leads Allen to ask thequestion, «If the tone in most parishes is being set by female ministers, what will that do to the comfort level of men, given that women are already over-represented?»

Propagate the natural reading of the account from a version true to the Hebrew (such as nkjv): godly men marrying women for their beauty producing a generation of ungodly «men of renown;» and lead people to scholarly sites where they can see what the Hebrew says and compare the Biblical basis for the various interpretations, such as Who Were The Nephilim, Genesis.6 & Numbers 13 A Fresh Look, by Bodie Hodge at Answers in Genesis.

Having spent most of my life surrounded by some incredible women of God who knew the Word, lived the Word, spoke the Word, led Bible Studies, preached powerful sermons to thousands at a single gathering and so on, had the ability to heal with the Word, raise the dead, cast out Demons with the Power of the Word and so on I have come to the conclusion that «MAN» has distorted what God has always intended for His church.

I attend a church where a woman is the Executive Pastor but most people in the church don't know she's the Executive Pastor because her Lead Pastor is a guy and he does most of the preaching and most of what you would see the Lead Pastor do but at the same time the Lead Pastor is having to submit to the leadership of the Executive Pastor.

This idea, a form of «sex in the head» (D. H. Lawrence), was what provoked their first adventure in dressing up in women's undergarments and had eventually led them toward the surgical option.

that they can tell how woman should lead her life and what happens to her own body..

Entitlement is what leads men to think they «deserve» a mistress after a hard week at work and women to think they «deserve» a new wardrobe that will break the family budget.

Any person who truly wants to follow the teachings of jesus, should leave the church and actually do what he preached, and equality was a big lesson he was preaching, unlike the church that has led too many to believe that women are lesser beings.

all you guys and gals saying that this woman is leading people astray, what in the world is wrong with you?

Led by 27 - year - old Chiang Shao - yi, the Chinese women won nine gymnastics medals, including five gold, and they had onlookers wondering what they will do for an encore after they gain international experience.

Coping with the contrast between their traditional nonaggressive role in society and the no - holds - barred climate on the court leads to some interesting discussions, like what happens when women start beating up on men.

To neutralize him Joseph Chesire of Kenya led at a speed slower than what the women had run, and his Kenyan teammate, David Kibet, stationed himself off Morceli's right elbow, boxing him in.

for me people like Nia Jax, Ashley Graham, Tyra Banks, are beautiful and so are women like Flockhart and Nicole Richie on the other side, for me the biggest indicator is looking at what is «healthy» and what is unhealthy, and stay in between (which should be a very big range) and not worry about «how people view you» and that leads to some people going way too thin (and yet feel fat still) and also leads to some women who goes to extremes of «not worry about how others view you» and forget their health and we have women who are under 6 feet tall and 600 pounds

This match is going to determine the direction of the women's division for some time yet and help lead SmackDown into its next championship program and what the brand will do at its next pay - per - view, June's Money in the Bank.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

Plus it can lead to misguided thinking, such as women are «naturally» more monogamous, and once we get into what humans are «naturally» or «biologically» geared toward, we are entering dangerous territory, especially when it comes to things like marriage, reproduction, gender and sex.

The only common thread among the three women is they are divorced or in the process of divorcing, not what led to their split.

Contrary to what TV as lead you to believe — women have a brain, we have drive, we like solving, we do enjoy the entire relationship thing but not at the expense of losing ourself and neither would you.

«When things get hard, asked the woman leading the workshop, «What will you have in your back pocket that will keep you committed?»

I believe that women have the answers inside themselves if they will only listen to it, but how difficult would it be to listen to what you are being led to do in a situation like that when you are outsourcing your birth to someone else?