Sentences with phrase «many labour women»

Hospitals are limited by their organisation and nature as to how they can cater to a labouring woman.

My understanding of one of the evidence based benefits of a doula came from studies which looked at «a woman known to the labouring woman» but not involved in her medical care being present for the labour reduced Caesarean section.

Transporting a labouring woman over MOUNTAINOUS terrain?

I ended #WorldDoulaWeek the same way in which I started it; at a labouring woman's side.

Disappointed by the medicalisation of birth and unnecessary intervention in hospitals, where labouring women were made to lie on their back, she started to advocate the use of movement and gravity to help labour and birth.

It might be a highly - efficient use of clinical skills if it meant that only women having problems showed up at the hospital, and there were ORs near every labouring woman.

For centuries women have given birth with the support and understanding of elder women who have the life experience to guide the labouring woman through her birth.

The lack of disturbance associated with giving birth at home allows the full expression of the labouring woman's «ecstatic hormones».

An understanding by health professionals that, rather than concentrate on either «medicalised» or «natural» birth, focussing on individualising care and normalising each woman's experience will ultimately provide the high quality care that labouring women require.

If it is due to the way in which labour is managed in hospital, changes should be made to practices which compromise the safety of labouring women.

Noting the ease with which labouring women squat and give birth in the paddy fields, compared with the painful and laborious experience of many Western women in childbirth, she concluded that the stressful, sedentary modern lifestyle and sugary diet provide clues to the problem and that preparation, inside and out, was the key.

I have told everyone that I speak to about my baby's birth that it is a labouring woman's dream.

Water births are becoming increasingly popular for labouring women.

How did we come to put the needs of care givers those of the labouring woman?

Harriet fought for more Labour women MPs through «women - only shortlists».

At that time, Labour had 268 MPs compared to Tory 339 MPs and she came into Parliament as one of only 10 Labour women MPs.

This policy led to the election of 101 Labour women MPs in 1997.

But even now, as the Shadow Education Secretary, I occasionally feel like someone's going to tap me on the shoulder and say, «the joke's over»; however, the solidarity and support from Labour women dispels those anxieties and doubts.

Parliamentary Pioneers: Labour Women MPs 1918 - 1945 by Mary Honeyball is available now, published by Urbane

«Parliamentary Pioneers: Labour Women MPs 1918 - 1945», written by the Labour MEP, Mary Honeyball, paints a fascinating portrait of political trailblazers — from Margaret Bondfield to Stella Creasy — who have much to teach the wannabe politicians of today.

Honeyball argues persuasively that these early Labour women saw themselves as socialists first and feminists second, and skilfully describes the enormous prejudice they overcame, on both counts.

The tale begins with Bondfield, Susan Lawrence and Dorothy Jewson who were the first Labour women to win election to the House of Commons, in 1923.

At the carefully stage - managed Labour women's training conference in mid-July, defence of the proposals by Baroness Hollis and new Labour MP and ex-NUS president Lorna Fitzsimons as not pleasant but «necessary» contrasted with a well attended and heated Labour Women's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent benefits.

McMorrin is a member of the Unison and GMB trade unions, LGBT Labour, Labour Women's Network and the Cooperative Party.

With news on the proposals getting through to Labour Party members over the summer, LWAC, together with Labour women MPs, took the initiative to launch the Save Lone Parent Benefit umbrella campaign.

My impression is that the vast majority of criticism has come from SNP / Yes campaign supporters eager to describe it as a problem for Labour, and to put prominent Labour women in the uncomfortable position of having to denounce his speech.

At the Labour women's conference, taking place before the formal start of the full national event on Sunday, Mr Corbyn said his proposed review of party democracy would ensure wider support for his policies.

In 1992, all constituencies were required to have a woman on the shortlist — 37 Labour women were elected.

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.

Despite this, in 1945 and 1987, 21 Labour women were elected.

Only two new Labour women were elected (and over 30 new men), and by - election candidates replacing women were all men.

Between 1992 and 1997, a campaign led by Labour women ensured that there were AWS in half of all potentially winnable seats.

She was elected to the Party's National Women's Conference in 1989 and chaired the National Conference of Labour Women in 1991.

Jo Cox, Chair of the Labour Women's Network, attended the equalities meeting, bringing determination and practical suggestions.

I would estimate that there are not more than a half a dozen people in the country outside Parliament who would have the AWS / notAWS distinction in their heads if offered a list of say 20 1997 Labour women and asked to sort 10 in each category.

(Lury's study reports that Labour women overall did slightly better than the men in government jobs and promotion).

Many Labour women will rightly see Owen Smith's comments as sexist and outdated, and for him to dismiss the issue as «banter» rather than apologising is not acceptable of a candidate for Labour leader.

1 pm: Crunching the maths, FT Westminster blog looks at the current number of Labour women MPs and concludes: «By proposing that half the cabinet should be female, Harman is - ironically - suggesting that the Labour women MPs are twice as talented as the men.»

She will be one of several prominent Labour women holding a press conference today to highlight the issue.

The admission, during a hostile phone - in with BBC radio listeners, came after Mr Smith was shouted down at a Labour women's hustings with Jeremy Corbyn in Westminster.

Sponsored by UNISON, our Regional Women's Conference will bring together Labour women, politicians, stakeholders and activists from across the region.

Many of those Labour women MPs are of such a background and disproportionately provide classic failures.

Now, she points to «a dramatic change in the nature of Conservative women MPs... These MPs are more modern, and people that we, as Labour women, can work cross-party with.»

I am my own woman — a strong Labour woman,» she said, to cheers from supporters.

Angela Eagle has formally launched her bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, describing herself as «a strong Labour woman» who could heal divisions in the party and lead it to election victory.

When Angela Eagle laid out her challenge to Jeremy Corbyn, her arms raised in a pink jacket and flanked by two bright banners with her first name scrawled across them, she declared herself a «strong Labour woman».

Former shadow business secretary says she is not a Blairite, Brownite or Corbynista but a «strong Labour woman»

The Labour website, inspired by the #metoo movement, was set up anonymously by six Labour women involved in the party at different levels and has the support of the chair of the women's parliamentary Labour party (PLP), Jess Phillips.

She is a former NUS Scotland Chair and current treasurer of Labour Women Network.