{"id":3328,"date":"2014-11-18T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T21:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/2014\/11\/18\/gender-not-a-barrier-for-leaders\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:39:05","slug":"gender-not-a-barrier-for-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/gender-not-a-barrier-for-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender not a barrier for leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/ElizabethDavis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15510 lazyload\" alt=\"ElizabethDavis\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/ElizabethDavis.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"257\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/257;\" \/><\/a>Furman president Elizabeth Davis was the keynote speaker in November at the annual ATHENA Leadership Symposium in Greenville, which actively supports talented women in their efforts to assume leadership positions.\u00a0 A noted scholar, teacher, author and administrator, President Davis told the audience that gender shouldn\u2019t be a barrier for leaders and to \u201cmake sure you focus on the goal and not the obstacles and be sure not to create the obstacles yourself.\u201d\u00a0 Davis\u2019 appearance at the ATHENA event was chronicled in the <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/upstatebusinessjournal.com\/takeaway\/11895\/\">Upstate Business Journal<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman president Elizabeth Davis was the keynote speaker in November at the annual ATHENA Leadership Symposium in Greenville, which actively supports talented women in their efforts to assume leadership positions.\u00a0 A noted scholar, teacher, author and administrator, President Davis told the audience that gender shouldn\u2019t be a barrier for leaders and to \u201cmake sure you focus on the goal and not the obstacles and be sure not to create the obstacles yourself.\u201d\u00a0 Davis\u2019 appearance at the ATHENA event was chronicled in the <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/upstatebusinessjournal.com\/takeaway\/11895\/\">Upstate Business Journal<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}