Sentences with phrase «woman at the head»

There has never been a better time to have a woman at the head of the Trades Union Congress.

According to Marketing Director Jon Pinney of Wholesale Insurance, studies by the insurance research and assessment firm LIMRA International show that between 15 % and 30 % of the men and women at the head of American households carry no life insurance at all, while J.D. Powers and Associates claims that the uninsured rates among women in the United States may be as high as 64 %.

Not exact matches

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

Robots took over the floor at the annual RoboBusiness conference in San Jose this week, including a small white one that bobbed its head and flashed its eyes in multiple colors while a smiling woman stared at its pale face.

I also like to look at the single mom statistics, since single women who heads a household is part of a growing component of our society.

The only woman to serve as the head of the U.S. central bank described her work at the Fed as «the core of my existence.»

That says highly motivated heads of households, be they women or men, are seeking and obtaining jobs and gradually raising their incomes albeit at a slow pace.

The first woman to head the 212 - year - old company (DD), Kullman took over as a dismal 2009 began and by year - end had publicly vowed to raise earnings over three years at a 20 % annual compound rate.

Only three institutions (Cincinnati, Texas and the University of Miami) received As for being above average when compared to peer institutions and at least one school, Oklahoma State, didn't have any women head coaches for women's teams.

Head coach Sherri Coale of the Oklahoma Sooners during the Women's Final Four Semifinals at the Alamodome on April 4, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas.

CNBC's Wilfred Frost reports the highlights from his conversation with Susie Huang, Morgan Stanley head of M&A, at the Morgan Stanley Executive Women's Conference.

Women's Summit in New York City on Monday, was the head of business development at Rent the Runway for eight years, helping guide the startup to $ 100 million in revenue in 2016.

Women are heading to business school in larger numbers than ever before, and at younger ages to boot.

«I don't want to apologize for [Austen], but at the same time I want to apologize to every woman in the world who's heard about this and wants my head on a stake.»

While there are lots of potential ways we could help working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to focus less on the handful of women at the top — just 28 of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.

Krawcheck, was former head of global wealth management at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and is now the business leader for 85 Broads, an organization which helps women further their business careers.

And it always amazes me at how women come in with their strollers and babies into our head shop.

On this score, State Street is atypical, says Kathy Horgan, the head of HR and another Leading Woman: It boasts higher retention rates of women than men at all levels of seniority.

«I was outraged as a customer using their product and significantly concerned for every woman who works at Uber,» said DeNardo, who is head of public relations and social media for Justin Kan Enterprises and start - up incubator Zero - F in San Francisco.

Women entrepreneurship have excelled at turning entire industries on their heads to provide those very things that the status quo has overlooked for years, and they have reaped the rewards of doing so.

moment» to form her own firm came after reading a report that showed companies with women at the helm perform better financially than those headed by men.

I am so sick of men trying to control women, stop raping us, stop hitting us, start using condoms, start using the head on your shoulders instead of the one at the end of your penis.

When I learned the law of head - covering at a Jerusalem seminary for women, I was horrified that I would have to bind up my head upon marriage; all clothing was a concession, and I conceded as little as permissible.

Initially I was resistant because actually, many years ago, before we were at Life Church, my family were part of a denomination where most of the women had to have their head covered.

These were of course poor precedents, since no clear - headed person had ever argued that women should not be ordained because being a woman was a sin, while many thoughtful people had noticed that the shift toward increasing tolerance of divorce had been at best sloppy and at worst downright unfaithful.

But on Friday right after the first day of our gathering, I sat bolt upright in my lovely hotel room at midnight with one thought in my head: no one needs to tell these women to keep striving.

Matthew and Mark describe an unnamed woman from Bethany who, while Jesus dined in the home of Simon the Leper just days before his death, anoints his head with expensive ointment to the chagrin of the disciples at the table, who grumble that her offering might be better spent on the poor.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

For the families in this desolate ghetto, one of Cairo's poorest, a visit from this chubby woman in a traditional Islamic head scarf means they will not have to go to sleep on an empty stomach - at least, not tonight.

A daughter at the table says it quietly, head over her dinner, «Women aren't made as an object for man's purposes.

We will reflect on the woman who anointed Jesus at Bethany (Thursday), the suffering of Mary of Nazareth (Friday), the women who waited through a long Sabbath before heading out to the tomb on Sunday morning (Saturday), and the story of Mary Magdalene (Sunday).

At the same time, it was clear that, for all their wrong - headed and occasionally malicious attacks on the Church, these ladies were giving voice to something which was also generally felt within society and particularly by younger women who knew nothing of the Network or its antics but who were not comfortable with answering the Church's critics.

Despite the fact that astronomers have concluded Revelation 12 where, «a woman clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet and twelve stars over her head» will be fulfilled September 23, 2017.

In John as in Luke the woman anoints Jesus» feet; in Mark and Matthew she pours the ointment on his head, implying that he was seated at the table instead of reclining.

He goes his way indifferent to the distribution and division of earthly goods, as one who has no possessions and desires none; he is not concerned for his daily bread, like the birds of the air; he does not trouble himself about house and home, as one who neither has nor seeks a shelter or a resting - place; he is not concerned to follow the dead to the grave; he does not turn his head to look at the things that usually claim the attention of men; he is not bound to any woman, so as to be charmed by her and desirous of pleasing her.

During the meal, «a woman of the city, who was a sinner,... brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.»

Maria Furlough is a wife, a mother of five, head of a women's ministry at Lake Forest Church in Huntersville, North Carolina, and author of Breaking the Fear Cycle: How to Find Peace for Your Anxious Heart.

3:26 - 29); (b) within this equality the man (or at least the husband) is irreversibly «the head» of the woman (or at least his wife), i.e., is of higher rank in some real sense (though the exact sense is disputed - causal priority only?

Another definitive element of the legend of Ellaiyamman must be emphasized at this juncture: this Dalit goddess has the head of the Paraiyar and the body of a caste Hindu woman.

Mrs. Niebuhr, a woman of impressive erudition, later became head of the religion department at Barnard College.

One man in the audience said he was impressed with how the seven women in the inner circle got immediately to their feelings and related at a deep level, whereas the seven men were mostly head - tripping.

And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.

In spite of the fact that Karl Barth in the Commission on the Life and Work of Women at the Amsterdam Conference attempted to put the relation of women to the work of the Church on the theological basis of Adam's rib and Ephesians 5:23 («For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church» [R.S.V.]-RRB-, most of us still believe that Paul comes nearest to the mind of Christ in Galatians Women at the Amsterdam Conference attempted to put the relation of women to the work of the Church on the theological basis of Adam's rib and Ephesians 5:23 («For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church» [R.S.V.]-RRB-, most of us still believe that Paul comes nearest to the mind of Christ in Galatians women to the work of the Church on the theological basis of Adam's rib and Ephesians 5:23 («For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church» [R.S.V.]-RRB-, most of us still believe that Paul comes nearest to the mind of Christ in Galatians 3:28.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Head of the anti — human trafficking organization A21, Caine discovered Christian women around the globe leading in various business sectors, but at the Christian conferences she headlined, she found that these working women sensed something missing from the training — a...

«For myself, the shock made me numb at first, and then I was profoundly sad that my life as a woman religious and my commitment to serving the poor would be so denigrated by the leadership of our church,» says Sister Simone Campbell, who heads NETWORK, a liberal advocacy group in Washington.

At the Vatican, Sisters Pat Farrell and Janet Mock, president and executive director respectively of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, sat down with Cardinal William Levada, head of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the church's doctrinal watchdog group, and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, who is charged with bringing the nuns back in line with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican.

When I looked at his full ministry — how he praised and esteemed women in leadership in the Church, how he turned household codes within a patriarchal society on their head, how he used feminine metaphors, how he subverted the systems, how he passionately defended equality — the verses that used to clobber me began to embrace me.

And another great theme of divine justice intersects here as well, for the good of procreation points forward to «the woman's seed» who will crush the head of the serpent, representing a future of human life that is permanently at enmity with death.

At a leper's house in Bethany a woman anoints Jesus» head; he defends her extravagance.