Sentences with phrase «labour women against»

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Sexual discriminationj against the women is demonstrated in the division of labour in the electronics industry.

The Labour party appointed Seema Malhotra as the first - ever shadow minister to tackle violence against women and girls, and the Archbishop of Canterbury vocalised his backing for Christian charity Restored, which is equipping the Church to tackle gender - based violence.

[If you don't] You will have a higher section rate, so part of that is you need to be in attendance to keep the birth normal and some of it is just to have an opinion about the strip, some if it is literally where you feel like you're standing guard, not against bad people but against keeping the space for the woman private and without a lot of stuff going on around her that's going to distract her just being in her labour.

Despite research showing the benefit of upright positions in labour and birth, most women in the UK still give birth in the semi-reclined position, pushing their baby out against the forces of gravity.

For 294 women (13.8 %) the birth notifications indicated obstetric referral before the onset of labour, which was an exclusion criterion, and for another 171 (8.0 %) information from the midwives could not be checked against birth notifications because they were not available.

«Labour's doctrine of equivalence has led to jury scepticism about many rape claims, in situations where it is the man's word against the woman's and where they had agreed to spend the evening or night together.

The local Green party has announced it will not run against Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for ultra-marginal Ealing Central and Acton, while Women's Equality Party leader Sophie Walker is seeking a united front against controversial Tory Philip Davies in Shipley.

Former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has spoken out against Donald Trump's attitude to women...

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposLabour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposlabour movement opposition.

Labour has a proud history of standing up for women, from Barbara Castle's support for the Equal Pay Act, to Harriet Harman making tackling male violence against women a priority for the party, and Diane Abbott's campaigning for BAME representation.

Despite more than 90 MPs signing the parliamentary motion against the proposals tabled by Audrey Wise MP, outbursts of anger at meetings of the PLP addressed by Harriet Harman, protests and vocal opposition from women Labour Party members and lone parent organisations — even Glenys Kinnock MEP added her name to a petition and letter against the proposals — the new batch of Labour women MPs were largely noticeable by their absence.

Only eight Labour women MPs voted against the attacks on lone parent benefits, with a handful of others conspicuously abstaining.

Labour MEPs opposed an increase in the budget because of continuing waste on the common agricultural policy, and were campaigning on violence against women, assistance for disabled people, allegations of corruption against EU officials in Kosovo, commitment to science and, with Steve Rotheram MP, on tyre safety.

Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has called Nick Clegg's response to the allegations against Lord Rennard «a cop out» and claimed the women who made the complaints are «being hung out to dry».

If Labour wants to show that it can select candidates who have experienced real hardship and have personal experience of the effects of violence against women, it could not have made a better choice.

Former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has spoken out against Donald Trump's attitude to women — and in favour of a female Dr Who.

Labour MEPs opposed an increase in the budget because of continuing waste on the common agricultural policy, and were campaigning on violence against women, assistance for disabled people, allegations of corruption -LSB-...]

The Labour leadership candidate published proposals on tackling violence and harassment against women overnight.

A loud social campaigner, Kitzinger spoke out against episiotomies, the act of cutting a labouring woman's perineum preemptively in order to avoid severe tearing; she considered it a form of genital mutilation, and many clinicians today say that naturally - occurring tears heal better than incisions and can largely be avoided by careful management.