Sentences with phrase «at issues of gender»

Looking at the issue of gender with a racial lens, this new area of Schott's work — including the ongoing biennial report series on Black Boys educational achievement nationwide — has led school districts across the country to re-examine how they educate and measure the outcomes of the students who are most vulnerable to failure in the education system.

Not exact matches

These seven innovators» actions and ideas aren't just improving the ways we do business; they also speak to broader issues, including national security, gender bias, world poverty and the state of the startup community at large.

There are many issues at stake, particularly the role of women in the military, and, as Fox News put it, the «blurring of gender lines.»

High profile edge cases, like the sexual harassment allegations at Uber, have the unfortunate effect of making ongoing diversity and gender equality issues seem insignificant in comparison.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his speech at the World Economic Forum 2018 annual meeting in Davos, eastern Switzerland on January 23, 2018 to reaffirm Canada's leadership on the issue of gender equality, both at home and at the upcoming G7 meeting, which Canada will chair.

«Given that Canada's foreign policy has put gender equity issues prominently at the top of its agenda, obviously this is something we wanted to highlight here: That you have a Canadian company actively undermining those rights abroad by facilitating censorship in countries where those rights aren't respected or recognized,» Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, told me over the phone.

We hope this new ETF will help bring greater focus to the issue of gender diversity at Canadian companies.»

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

He does not even touch on what the political scientists Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl have called the «Hillary Doctrine,» promulgated through the Office of Global Women's Issues established by Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, and according to which any denial of gender equality anywhere in the world is a threat to American order.

While I definitely agree that his response is great in many circumstances and (without knowing the context of that conversation) may have been the perfect thing to say at that moment, I think calling this statement «a template that can be used to respond to questions concerning sexuality, gender and other important issues» reduces a very complex issue down to a very simple response that doesn't really answer any questions for anyone.

She blogs at More Than Serving Tea and partners with other bloggers and pastors to highlight and move the conversation forward on issues of race, ethnicity, and gender within the Church.

In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

«At the Regional level, the Regional Commissions of the UN support Member States in addressing gender equality issues from the regional and sub-regional perspectives.

Gender equity in sports remains an issue at the vast majority of universities and colleges across the country, and how the Department of Education will enforce Title IX under the new Trump administration is unclear.

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto who writes frequently on issues of sexuality and gender in sport.

It makes sense that you might attach the issue at hand with the gender, and worry that your next child of the same gender will automatically face the same struggles.

That's where the stereotypical girl ends, however: this young woman, from this father's perspective, is a complex, one - of - a-kind human being who seems to feel free to embrace and reject gender roles, at least those of which she is aware (there always remains the issue of the gender roles to which we all unconsciously adhere).

In 2015, the state Education Department issued further guidelines under the act to specifically prevent discrimination of transgender and gender - nonconforming students, along with suggestions on how to make them feel more comfortable at school, including the right to use the restroom and locker room in accordance with their gender identity, participate in gender - segregated activities in accordance with their gender identity, and adhere to dress codes in accordance with their gender identity and expression.

Elected officials, perhaps sensitive of the gender dynamics at play — after all, the male Naked Cowboy has worked shirtless in Times Square for years without much pushback — have repeatedly tried to tie the issue less to nudity and more to aggressive panhandling.

Former President Jimmy Carter spoke about his latest book, which touches on the issue of gender equality, at Yale University Tuesday afternoon.

«The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader has galvanised a new generation of activists, and this year at Left Field we aim to give them a platform to discuss issues around social justice, the economy, gender and the possibilities for genuine change under a Corbyn government.»

It is one of many factors that contribute to unacceptably high rates of poverty of female - headed households and an issue at the core of YWCA work throughout the state, particularly in Upstate NY where gender pay inequity is greatest.

The long - discussed issue of the Buffalo School District's gender identity policy was voted on at Wednesday night's meeting of the School Board, and the meeting ended in celebration.

Minita Sanghvi, an assistant professor in Management and Business at Skidmore College who specializes in political marketing and issues of gender and power.

The panelists spoke candidly about their experiences as women of color in academia and answered a range of questions — from how they achieved personal / professional balance to how they felt about constant requests (including this one) to speak at programs on issues related to race, gender, or both.

Lisa Wolf - Wendel, a sociologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence who studies gender issues, says the impact of the new policy is hard to predict.

It also is one of few to look at gender inequality issues among health professions beyond pay disparities, and among the first of its kind to highlight how political regimes and governance issues influence health workforce production.»

AAAS, too, has repeatedly addressed this issue, including at symposia on the exploration of the early underpinnings of gender bias in the scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical fields for elementary age girls, and on new ways to expand the numbers of underrepresented groups in those fields — both held at its 2016 Annual Meeting in February.

In August 2012 a team of researchers at the Credit Suisse Research Institute issued a report in which they examined 2,360 companies globally from 2005 to 2011, looking for a relationship between gender diversity on corporate management boards and financial performance.

The report argues that existing programs aimed at helping countries deal with climate change don't deal directly with gender issues, and maintains that global financing mechanisms need to specifically address the rights of girls.

All of a sudden my general (and at times very overwhelming) interest in this massive social justice issue of global extreme poverty and gender inequality became a narrow - focused mission to help a few of Uganda's brightest young women go to college and become leaders in their communities.

The way he seamlessly turns this sexual / mental illness into an issue of gender and of degree stands as testament that Michael Haneke, regardless of how hard it is to watch at times, can make some of the strongest remarks through films.

But beyond «Get Out,» there were many other powerful meditations on relevant issues, be they class («The Florida Project,» «Lady Bird»), gender dynamics («Battle of the Sexes,» «The Beguiled») or cultural discrimination («The Big Sick,» «Beatriz at Dinner»).

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

The film teases the audience with clues and foreboding hints at the causes of the malaise, but never offers anything concrete or literal, instead creating a rich allegorical framework from which an endless array of fascinating questions are raised as to how power may be intermingled with issues such as history, education, class, family, gender, sexuality and ultimately the impossibility of human communication and understanding.

Though the show unfolding on the monitors was packed with mentions of gender politics, there were only a few signs of the issue du jour at the H.F.P.A. party.

While delivering a rollicking and racy speech about Varda's work, director's branch governor Kimberly Peirce gave the room a chance, at least, to laugh at the hypocrisy of the business when it comes to issues of gender, sexuality and power.

When Franco appeared at Sunday's Golden Globes, where he won a statue for his starring role in The Disaster Artist, many people took issue with the fact that the actor was wearing a Time's Up pin to show support of the initiative to combat sexual harassment and gender inequality in Hollywood.

There is a larger societal issue here, and at the core of it is gender inequality.

The need for a greater emphasis on prevention is something that Finn noticed throughout her nearly 10 years working on issues of gender inequality at organizations like the Tahirih Justice Center and Futures Without Violence.

As the weeks progress, Dodge will introduce various topics and activities that explore issues of race, sexuality, gender; or academic issues, such as how to handle the new levels of responsibility and work at high school; or even how to think about what to major in and how to define their future academic and personal goals.

The benefits of quality learning in the early years and re-emerging gender issues in mathematics are among the hot topics that will be explored at this year's ACER Research Conference.

While the issue of gender imbalance in the industry is not necessarily solved at the level of education — in the US, only one in seven women with a STEM degree actually works in that field — ensuring that a more equal number of men and women possess technical skills at GCSE level is certainly a start.

The film American Promise, which opened in D.C. on November 1, surfaces many of difficult issues at the intersection of race, class, and gender.

Critical pedagogy extends critical theory - the neo-Marxist examination of the relationship between power and culture, aimed at addressing issues of class, race, gender, and social justice through the remaking of societal institutions - to the realm of schools.

Early entrance to public school at different levels, admission to gifted programs, curriculum modification, and issues of race and gender are the general issues embodied in the category of educational opportunities (Marquardt & Karnes, 1989).

He is also a graduate fellow at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues as well as a member of the Designated Emphasis program in Women, Gender, & Sexuality.

At least one of the four panel members was from Vida - the organization that did the initial analysis highlighting the gender inequality so the conversation was very much focused on the issues they raised - so I suggest that their website would be the place to go - and perhaps this article in particular: http://www.vidaweb.org/the-count-2013/