Sentences with phrase «years like women»

They haven't been the subject of sexism and abuse for thousands of years like women have.

Not exact matches

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

«So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue.

She was a staff writer at a news agency in Nebraska, covering transportation, and worked in South Korea for several years where she wrote about science while freelancing for publications like Women's Wear Daily and Groove Korea.

«I would first like to thank all of the men and women who sat next to me cohosting with me this past year,» Ripa said.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

If the three women are successful, in 35 years Cara will still be a thriving company that Mia, like her great - grandfather, will be proud to call her own.

For the study, 86 women between 70 and 80 years old with MCI were randomly assigned to do one of three types of training twice a week for six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balance.

I don't want us 15 years from now to turn around and be like, «Wait, how come there's so few women V.P.s at all these companies?

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cWoman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cwoman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

Earlier this year, he told Motherboard he was working on technology that would allow a woman to «hack into her microbiome and make her vagina smell like roses and taste like Diet Coke.»

In recent years, the country has seen an influx of networking and hacking events like Hacks / Hackers, Women 2.0, Girls in Tech and Startup Weekend.

Today's typical Leon's shopper is a 52 - year - old male, but the company's ideal client is a busy 35 - year - old woman who cares intensely about her home and likes to share photos of her imperfect but real living space on social media.

We asked one woman (we'll call her Natalia, because she preferred anonymity) who worked for six years at Walt Disney World in Orlando to tell us in her own words what it was like, and everything she learned from wearing those big costumes that, yes, are really, really hot.

Like many others, I was in awe of the democratic groundswell that culminated in this year's Women's March on Washington.

Much like Wonder Woman did last year, Black Panther is generating quite a bit of buzz on various social media platforms.

In the last 4 years, we've backed over 100 women - led companies like Wildfire, TaskRabbit, SlideShare, Viki, Moonfruit, TheRealReal, and ipsy.

[2:17] What is your idea of an extraordinary life [2:43] You can be rich and happy, or rich and angry [3:08] It's about defining what life on your terms looks like [3:18] Nothing worse than an angry rich man or woman [3:24] We have a 2 billion - year old brain: focused on fight or flight, and survival [4:14] We don't appreciate enough.

Unilever's AXE burst out of nowhere in the US several years ago and established itself as a formidable competitor in the men's market for years with its Maxim - like dose of sexy women, strange irreverent ads and double entendres («cleaning dirty equipment»).

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

By Lawrence Delevingne and Olivia Oran (Reuters)- Wall Street holiday parties this year took place in luxury venues like the Waldorf Astoria, featured women dressed as glowing angels, and had fine wine, scotch and bourbon on hand.

«We are encouraged by the performance of the pilot programs we tested last year in categories like women's shoes, fine jewelry, and furniture and mattresses,» CEO Jeff Gennette said in a statement.

I've been talking to a lot of the new members asked to join the Academy during its two - year diversity push, and a lot of these ostensibly hipper, younger voters — many of whom are people of color and white women — are happy to tell you they like Three Billboards.

ST. PETERSBURG — While protesting is an intrinsic part of American culture, protests have had a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, with events like last year's Women's March and this weekend's March for Our Lives.

She doesn't feel like her firm is limiting itself with its focus on women — at least in Fund I. True Wealth last August raised $ 4.7 million of a targeted $ 20 million fund and closed on another (undisclosed amount) raise late last year.

A first - of - its kind study explains why the tech industry is like sieve for women and underrepresented minorities, and how those exits cost companies an estimated $ 16 billion a year.

Like Chapin, Fraser took on challenges as a young woman, managing a Starbucks store when she was just 20 years old.

Suzanne Simpson, another pioneer in the resale industry, says she's been able to pay local women more than $ 4.6 million in the past few years with her resale brands like Clothes Mentor in Ocoee, Florida.

About the only reason I know that women like to put on lavish weddings, is to get the man at least two years into debt so as to make it less likely that he will leave her if he changes his mind.

D.I.. You, like Chad, did yesterday use the term murder, so let me ask you the same question... What would you do with / to the 1.2 women that have abortions, murder in your view, every year?

And this is the question that neither the LCWR nor its defenders, like Tom Fox, ever engage: If what you've been doing for about 40 years is so right, why do young women not find it attractive?

As a woman, I don't like EITHER ONE of those songs which in Thicke's case promote the rape mentality to a catchy tune (great hook btw) and in Cyrus» case is just a degrading display of vulgarity which should be left in strip clubs for over 21 year olds.

I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woman...

Their worst atrocities started when they got into German territory, like the Nemmersdorf Massacre, where they proceeded to r - a-p-e and murder nearly every German women and girl from age 8 years old and up, leaving many naked and nailed (crucified) to barn doors.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

And then you have women like myself who made it into a leadership role like elder only to have a small group of power brokers to decide (2.5 years later, I might add), that it was not biblical.

If the Mindolo community is a representative group, African church leaders» views on women's issues are much like those in the U.S. 20 years ago.

I only wish you wouldn't utterly malign and call «bullies» all the women and men whom, like me, have had strained relations with you over the years.

In a deeper sense, however, he is far from being fictional; I have corresponded with men and women like him for many years, and have spent countless hours in personal conference with them.

I don't read any atheists on here supporting the selling of 6 - year - old girls as slaves or discriminating against women and the handicapped like the Bible does..

(CNN)- He looked like a «red - faced pork butcher in shabby tweeds,» lived secretly with a woman for years and was so turned on by S&M that he once asked people at a party whether he could spank them.

I was thinking about necessities, like tampons, pads, underwear, bras, but Lisa # 1's comments made me think maybe I had the right idea last year... maybe my job is to «spoil» the women, so they remember that they're worth it.

After many years of street ministry I found that if people are in need help it's best to direct them to a secular organization, like women's safe houses, food banks, AA, community colleges, community counselors, etc..

It has taken a number of years for women to realize that to be a «good preacher» does not mean preaching «like a man.»

More importantly, I'd like to see Americans get over their fear of the concept of athiesm and actually acknowledge that a man (or woman) is perfectly capable of being morally sound without having to rely on a 2,000 + year old book for guidance.

So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.