Sentences with phrase «cent of women now»

And the policy appears to have worked: more than 200 needle exchanges are now operating in Britain and figures just published by the Public Health Laboratory Service suggest that only about 6 per cent of men and 7 per cent of women now injecting drugs in London are HIV - positive.

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Although women are now ordained to all three orders within the Church of England (deacon, priest and bishop), fewer than a quarter of those seeking ordination under the age of 30 are female and fewer than two per cent of leaders of larger Anglican churches are female.

Now more than half of new medical school recruits are female: 4,583, or 56.2 per cent of the total admissions in 2008 - 9 were women, up from 492 in the year 1960 - 1.

As many as 27 per cent of men — and 29 per cent of women — in the UK are now obese, meaning the country has one of the worst obesity problems in Europe

Women now account for 57 per cent of US citizens aged over 65, but 68 per cent of those who need daily assistance in their lives.

Now, 15 years later, the Law Society of Upper Canada has released its report on retaining women in the profession and many of the same issues raised by Wilson are still present: a high proportion of women enter the legal profession at the initial entry level (more than 50 per cent of lawyers called to the bar are female), and that there is a higher attrition rate for women than men from private practice.

In its May / June 2013 edition, Canada's national running magazine, Canadian Running, reported that in the USA «women now account for 55 per cent of all participants in road races and nearly 60 per cent at the half - marathon distance.»

BMO also now expects 40 per cent of its executives to be women by the end of 2016.

The disparity is stark: Despite now making up 39 per cent of the profession in Ontario, and 31 per cent of lawyers in private practice, women account for only 21 per cent of law firm partners.

Women now make up almost 50 per cent of the in - house bar in Canada but they are still being paid less than their male counterparts, according to a recent survey.

I'm now the HR director for Hays Canada and proud to be part of management board that is 50 per cent made up of women, including operational roles.

When asked if they would be more or less likely to buy a home now due to the current economy, the majority of women (64 per cent) said that the economy had no impact on their decision to either not buy or buy a home right now while 26 per cent of women said they would be less likely and 10 per cent said they would be more likely to buy a home now due to the current economy.

There is now a waiting list, with many more young people and families, and 40 per cent of plots are now managed by women who increasingly like to grow organic vegetables.