Sentences with phrase «many immigrant women»

Many immigrant women come from cultures where they are raised to take on a secondary or caregiver role.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen acknowledges that gaps in employment and wages do exist, but says government has been working on designing settlement programs to improve opportunities for immigrant women and their children.

She suggests immigrant women instead need better education about balancing family life with employment opportunities.

The fall in the number of births to immigrant women is explained by behavior (falling birth rates), rather than population composition (change in the number of women of childbearing age), according to a Pew Research analysis.

The birth rate for U.S. - born women decreased 6 % during these years, but the birth rate for foreign - born women plunged 14 % — more than it had declined over the entire 1990 - 2007 period.1 The birth rate for Mexican immigrant women fell even more, by 23 %.

Christianity Today: Evangelical Leaders Split Over Violence Against Women Act The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorized by Congress Wednesday removes protections for immigrant women who are victims of violence.

One of the professors (who, as it happens, is one of the world's leading scientists) was kneeling next to the wife of my tailor — she's an immigrant woman whose simple southern Italian spirituality is of the sort that gets Catholics labeled Mary worshippers by our Protestant friends.

When her business began to grow, she hired an immigrant woman in her neighbourhood who had become her friend.

In 1993 she returned to Italy to minister to Turin's immigrant women.

Immigrant women were also more likely to breastfeed.

She has had the opportunity to explore child birth from different perspectives by: developing and teaching Prenatal Yoga classes, caring for pregnant social high risk and new immigrant women at the Northeast Health Centre, and by working in Nunavut as a Maternal Newborn Health Services Consultant for the Government of Nunavut.

Even after controlling for socioeconomic and demographic differences, immigrant women have higher rates of initiation and duration of breastfeeding than women born in the United States (18).

«But instead of fighting for low - wage immigrant women who are the backbone of our state's economy, you are fighting for the Republican Party to be the Party of Trump whose monstrous mantra is wages are too high.»

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and a coalition of a dozen state AGs from the around country are opposing President Donald Trump's administration effort to block two immigrant women in federal custody from obtaining abortion services.

Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez blasted Su, calling her conduct «deplorable» for «targeting vulnerable immigrant women.»

She said DACA has allowed many immigrant women to secure jobs and educational opportunities and could struggle to provide for their families if the DREAM Act is not passed.

It was the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York's Greenwich Village that took the lives of 146 mostly young immigrant women and changed the course of history.

Using each country's most recently available birthing data, researchers analyzed more than nine million births — more than a third of which were to immigrant women.

Immigrant women from regions of the world such as East Asia, Southeast Asia, North Africa and the Middle East seem to be at lower risk of developing preeclampsia than native - born women and Eastern Europe women are at lower odds of developing eclampsia.

The study found that smoking prevalence among Asian immigrant men was more than four times that of Asian immigrant women (30.4 percent and 7.1 percent, respectively); among Latino immigrants, men's smoking prevalence was more than twice that of women's (29.5 percent and 12.6 percent, respectively).

There were many young and more beautiful ladies who had entered the contest, but Charming Charlie picked me, an over 40s immigrant woman.

She dines with other Irish immigrant women in a similar position and the head of the boarding house Mrs. Kehoe (a very funny Julie Walters), who scolds and warns the girls that she'll have the parish priest give a sermon on gossip if they keep going with it.

She has been organizing immigrant women workers for more than two decades.

She lives in a home with other immigrant women and she learns better ways to «fit in» among New Yorkers.

If she isn't quite believable as an immigrant woman, perhaps its because of the demands she is working against.

One per - centers are taking it on the chin at the movies these days with recent releases like «The Founder» and «Get Out,» and now the latest cinematic smack out of Sundance, Beatriz at Dinner, a sly and telling exposé of class in America as seen through the eyes of a Mexican immigrant woman named Beatriz (Salma Hayek, «Savages»), a new - age holistic healer who works at a cancer rehabilitation center, does private massage therapy on the side, lives with her pet goats and drives a broken - down Volkswagen.

The National Sister Schools Organization, together with the San Diego and La Jolla California Rotary Club, support a school in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, a project inspired by an Iranian immigrant woman who was concerned about American's failure to understand Muslims.

Passionate around issues of opportunity and equality for women and girls, she has worked on these issues for private companies and the World Bank, and served on various non-profit Boards, including, currently on the Board and Executive Committee of the Tahirih Justice Center, a national leader protecting immigrant women and girls fleeing violence.

Does Tanya represent something larger about young immigrant women?

Marrin presents an exemplary, accessible overview of labor history in this detailed account of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 workers died — most of them immigrant women between the ages of 14 and 23.

Mary Mallon was a courageous, headstrong Irish immigrant woman who bravely came to America alone, fought hard to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic service ladder, and discovered in herself an uncanny, and coveted, talent for cooking.

This fictionalized account of Mary depicts her as a strong immigrant woman who battled for a better life for herself (Kathleen S).

In 1911 I happened to be in New York when the Triangle Shirtwaist factory caught fire, killing nearly a hundred and fifty people, most of them young immigrant women.

She performed her solo, «La lengua, the tongue of Cortès,» both in the US and the Netherlands and directed a series of performances based on Mexican legends: «Weeping Women and War» with Pomona College students,; «La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row» with the LAPD, which was performed on Skid Row and at a national conference on women and poverty at Scripps College, and «La Llorona, Weeping Women of Echo Park» with a group of Latina immigrant women in Echo Park.

Women Immigrants of New York,» which opens on February 17 at the Queens Museum, features art and fashion photography from immigrant women.

12.12.17: Kathleen White at Martos Gallery, «Exhibitions To See: 8 - Bit Reality, Kathleen White, Immigrant Women,» Bedford + Bowery

Fellowships and grants include the Rema Hort Mann NYC award, and the Fellowship for Immigrant Women Leaders from NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA).

Wave Pool — the Cincinnati - based contemporary art center built on the ethos that art intersects with community — is taking the lead on employing and empowering local refugee and immigrant women in Ohio through art.

A look at this week's art news, including Caroline Woolard and Pedro Reyes» recent contributions to the Cincinnati nonprofit Wave Pool, whose Welcome Editions project invites artists to design a limited edition art object and work with local refugee and immigrant women to fabricate the pieces.

Went once with a friend of mine to a furniture store in Omaha where we were assaulted by a mean old immigrant woman.

The program will seek diversity and inclusion of Palestinian, ultra-Orthodox, and immigrant women.

A social services agency representative who has worked extensively with immigrant women and single moms

Help for immigrant women with various services being provided.

Changing Together: A Centre for Immigrant Women 3rd Floor, 9538 - 107 Avenue NW Edmonton, Alberta T5H 0T7 Phone: [phone] www.changingtogether.com An immigrant convicted of an indictable criminal offence, such as assault, is in danger of deportation.

Founded in 1984, Changing Together is a nonprofit, charitable organization operated by immigrant women for immigrant women.

The mission of Changing Together is to help Edmonton and area immigrant women and their families overcome personal and systemic barriers that keep them from participating fully in Canadian Society.

Temporary foreign workers and immigrant women workers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, violence and the resulting chronic stress.

The audio of their Feb. 18 interview «More Than #MeToo is Needed to Protect Migrant Workers and Immigrant Women» (26 mins) is now available on the CBC website.

Lourdes Martinez, Staff Attorney — Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) Before joining ILRC, Lourdes worked as an immigration attorney at the Tahirih Justice Center in the DC metropolitan area, where she represented immigrant women and girls survivors of gender - based violence on immigration matters.

The risk for many immigrant women, including but not limited to Muslims, is that they will be isolated, deliberately or in practice, from the society to which they have come.