Sentences with phrase «women hold any position»

Can women hold any position in any organization, including religious organizations?

Church legislators have been working tirelessly over the past two years to cater for some traditionalists who remained largely opposed to women holding positions of authority within the Church.

The candidates eligible for these two positions rotate based on regional representation so that the two women holding these positions at any given time include one woman from the GTA and one woman from outside the GTA.

Not exact matches

Simone Askew is the first African - American woman to hold the position of First Captain of West Point's Corps of Cadets.

In Canada, women hold 20.8 % of board positions, according to the results of a new global census conducted by Catalyst.

2017 was full of revelations about the ugly things that can happen when men hold positions of power over women.

The women sitting in your business today have earned over half of all graduate degrees, but hold only 14 percent of all leadership positions.

Stepping into her new role this week as the first African - American woman to hold the position of First Captain of the U.S. Military Academy's Corps of Cadets, Askew will be responsible for overseeing the performance of approximately 4,400 students, according to the Associated Press.

The organization's studies show that the number of women in Canada who hold senior officer positions in the corporate sector increased just 4 % between 2002 and 2010.

Stewart has called leaving the CBC (where she was the youngest person and the only woman to ever hold her position) one of the boldest, smartest employment decisions she's ever made.

Women hold less than 15 percent of senior leadership positions at Qualcomm, according to the complaint.

Kirstine Stewart was the first woman to hold the position of Executive Vice-President of CBC's English services — often called the most powerful job in Canadian broadcasting — and was the first Managing Director of Twitter Canada, leading Canadian operations as well as advertising business and partnerships.

Within Fortune 500 companies, women hold just 16.9 % of board seats and 5.2 % of CEO positions, according to the Pew Research Center.

Irving also made some substantive changes within the company, including hiring Elissa Murphy as chief technical officer, the first woman to hold that position at GoDaddy.

As more women hold lucrative positions, the number of female billionaires worldwide continues to increase: There are now 145 female billionaires, up from 22 in 1995.

Today, women own 30 % of all private businesses across all sectors and hold the majority of management, professional, and related positions in the US, according to a report by Bank of Montreal's (BMO) Wealth Institute.

Sandberg is among the 14 per cent of women who hold executive officer positions and the 16 per cent of women who hold board of director seats, according to Catalyst.org.

Out of the 223 largest publicly traded companies headquartered in the Bay Area, more than one third had either zero or just one top position held by a woman, the study found.

Still, that represents a big improvement from five years ago, when almost two - thirds of Bay Area companies had either zero or one top position held by a woman.

Retailer Williams - Sonoma, biopharmaceutical company Medivation and bank Wells Fargo ranked as the companies with the most high - ranking positions held by women, researchers said.

Wente was not only the magazine's first female editor, she was also only the second woman to hold a senior editorial position in the magazine's 54 - year history.

President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday morning and said he will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who will be supposedly succeeded at the agency by the deputy director Gina Haspel, the first woman to hold the position.

Such social mores, she says, represent a «massive impediment in the development of women's rights... and completely [hold] back the strength and position of Russian women in society.»

Author Jill Griffin argues that since men still hold most of the leadership positions, women need male mentors, too.

Despite these facts, women receive less venture funding and hold fewer C - level positions and fewer partner seats at VCs than men.

Later Wednesday morning, Wynne met with Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada — the first woman to hold the diplomatic position — where she said trade issues would be discussed.

In March, women held 23.5 % of board positions at FTSE 100 companies, close to the target set by Lord Mervyn Davies in his 2011 review.

Prior to her roles at Pfizer, she held various leadership positions at Texas Instruments, GSE Systems, Warner Lambert and as a co-owner of women - run RMR Associates, a consulting company where she advised major organizations such as Warner Lambert and Illinois Power.

For example, while there are women leaders in our engineering and technical organizations, there are still no leadership positions in engineering, product or design held by URMs.

Despite all of this evidence, women still hold a small share of the positions that would maximize the benefits of increased diversity.

And only 14.6 % of Executive Officer positions were held by women — the 4thconsecutive year of no year - over-year growth.

At Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, women hold between 19 percent and 28 percent of leadership positions and between 19 percent and 20 percent of technical roles, according to those companies» most recent figures.

Throughout her career, Gabrielle has been an active volunteer and currently holds leadership positions with not - for - profit and philanthropic organizations focused on the financial services industry, women's initiatives and children's development.

Further, 33 % of board seats and 26 % of executive management positions are held by women, as compared to global averages of 15 % and 16 % %, respectively.

The woman has just as many positions in the house hold as the man.

So is that why there still are positions in the church that women aren't allowed to hold in order to make sure they are treated with «respect and dignity» by keeping them in their «place.»

Women hold many important positions in a ward.

even Sikh men trim their facial hair), and excessive love of self (especially holding self out of proper position toward God: is she a man or a woman??? She is really a self - imposed hybrid).

2.12 are interpreted, it is evident that, at the earliest stages at least, women such as Phoebe, Junia, Lydia, and Priscilla held positions of authority amongst the men and women who constituted the nascent communities.

Religion News Service broke the news on Wednesday, noting that Johnson Cook was the first woman and first African American to hold the position created 15 years ago by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).

A male, who held the highest position in society, and held the highest class status, was seen to be «feminized» by penetration, and designated as a social inferior, (female), by a male of lower class status, and thus his status was lowered, to that of a woman.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

I am in favour of women being given equality of opportunity and as I have mentioned being treated equally when in positions of authority, including being critiqued equally to men holding similar positions.

Certainly this is an excellent spot for competent women to serve the church; but of late years more men are holding such positions, and more directors, both men and women, are ordained ministers.

Today, Hudson - Wilkin is the chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, the first woman and black person to hold this position.

I would suggest that there a social conditioning that happens where it is presumed that a woman is a victim and a man is an opressor and I would strongly suggested taking that into account with what has influenced the poistion and view you hold, as much as you wish me to do so with considering the positions of men in society.

This completely excludes «women» from holding the position of «pastor, elder, bishop, overseer, etc.» in the «biblical» local church.

The cohort of women most captivated by that ideology now holds influential positions, and the organizations that promote the worst ideas of 1970s feminism continue to be handsomely bankrolled by its chief beneficiaries — the vast, profit - making abortion industry, the sex industry, and the organizations that promote aggressive population control.

We see the answer to why women can not hold the position or have the authority as a pastor.

(Source) Only 22 % of all statewide elective executive office positions are currently held by women.