Sentences with phrase «demanded equal pay»

She demanded equal pay for women in the workforce and spoke about student debt and college tuition.

It was a year where women marched for their freedom, where they spoke out against centuries of sexual harassment, and where women demanded equal pay.

As a new parent, Serena now faces a bigger challenge than demanding equal pay for black women.

The women's professional network Levo, for instance, launched its annual #Ask4More campaign last week, opening with comments from high - profile leaders such as Chelsea Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg on the importance of demanding equal pay and equality generally.

Made in Dagenham (R for profanity and brief sexuality) Female empowerment flick, set in London in 1968, recreating events surrounding the 1968 strike staged at a Ford Motor Company factory by machinists demanding equal pay for women.

Ben Keenan In Ireland today, women can order a pint in a pub, sit on a jury, keep a government job if she gets married, buy contraceptives and demand equal pay — none of which was legally permitted by the...

Touted as the next Full Monty, Nigel Cole «s tough, funny account of a game - changing strike at a British Ford plant in 1968, where 300 women walked out demanding equal pay for equal work.

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Demands for equal treatment for women are reflected in 70 resolutions about fair treatment and fair pay at work, in addition to three dozen more seeking boards that are less «pale, male and stale.»

Similarly to Mesut Ozil, I have no doubt that both players want to be paid on a level equal to their quality, however the reported # 300k plus seems a little steep for Alexis» demands.

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.

Encourage women to speak out against these circumstances — to demand equal treatment (and pay).

Those movements inspired countless women in Hollywood to demand fairer practices at workplaces like equal pay and no discrimination.

At the Oscars earlier this month, Frances McDormand ended her Best Actress acceptance speech with the words «inclusion rider,» instructing her colleagues in Hollywood to demand that their future contracts specifically call for gender - balanced creative times or more equal pay.

This year, there was talk of working conditions for farmers and janitors, and demands for equal pay across society.

This steady decline in intakes and deaths pays tribute to the tireless efforts of shelter employees, responsible dog breeders and rescue volunteers who have worked, prayed, and bullied their way to a future when the demand for pets would equal or exceed the supply and they would no longer be forced to euthanize healthy, adoptable animals.

Equal parts charm and challenge, Ori and the Blind Forest makes some harsh demands but pays off with its stellar presentation.

A «polluter pays» tax (the costs of which should, via normal market mechanisms, tend to be distributed among the benificiaries of the polluting activity, including internationally, other things being equal) doesn't just provide revenue to deal with damages (or avoid them) but also produces a price signal which reshapes behaviors (once decided, even before going into effect) in suppliers, consumers, and investors — the supply and demand curves shift making alternatives more abundant, etc..

The Equal Pay Act 1970, s 1 (5) should be moulded to be read: «A woman is to be regarded as employed on work rated as equivalent with that of any men if, but only if, her job and their job have been given an equal value or her job has been given a higher value, in terms of the demand made on a worker under various headings (for instance effort, skill, decision) on a study undertaken with a view to evaluating in those terms the jobs to be done by all or any of the employees in an undertaking or group of undertakings, or would have been given an equal value, or her job would have been given a higher value, but for the evaluation being made on a system setting different values for men and women on the same demand under any heading&raEqual Pay Act 1970, s 1 (5) should be moulded to be read: «A woman is to be regarded as employed on work rated as equivalent with that of any men if, but only if, her job and their job have been given an equal value or her job has been given a higher value, in terms of the demand made on a worker under various headings (for instance effort, skill, decision) on a study undertaken with a view to evaluating in those terms the jobs to be done by all or any of the employees in an undertaking or group of undertakings, or would have been given an equal value, or her job would have been given a higher value, but for the evaluation being made on a system setting different values for men and women on the same demand under any heading&raequal value or her job has been given a higher value, in terms of the demand made on a worker under various headings (for instance effort, skill, decision) on a study undertaken with a view to evaluating in those terms the jobs to be done by all or any of the employees in an undertaking or group of undertakings, or would have been given an equal value, or her job would have been given a higher value, but for the evaluation being made on a system setting different values for men and women on the same demand under any heading&raequal value, or her job would have been given a higher value, but for the evaluation being made on a system setting different values for men and women on the same demand under any heading».