She said the primaries of the political parties have already begun in earnest and the impending district assembly elections present an opportunity to
elect more women and prepare them for other national leadership positions.
She adds: «We need campaign finance in New York State, so we can
elect more women.»
Monica Wehby is the Senate candidate Republicans have been waiting for: a camera - ready pediatric neurosurgeon, mother of four, in a party that desperately needs to
elect more women.
The 21 in ’21 Initiative, a group that launched last year to
elect more women to the New York City Council, is quickly gaining steam, fueled in part by activism inspired by Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement, as well -LSB-...]
Gillibrand, a national leader in the push to
elect more women, praised the efforts of 21 in» 21, making the point that in order for more women to get elected on the federal level it is imperative for there to be a pipeline of women elected officials at the local level.
The 21 in ’21 Initiative, a group that launched last year to
elect more women to the New York City Council, is quickly gaining steam, fueled in part by activism inspired by Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement, as well as the powerful support of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
ELECT MORE WOMEN,» tweeted Glick, who has represented Manhattan in the chamber for nearly 30 years.
«This national reckoning on sexual harassment is showing us why we need to
elect more women and finally give them equal rights under the law, including equal pay,» Slaughter said.
Let
's elect more women, especially conservative ones.
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«My Off the Sidelines PAC is working every day to recruit and help
elect more women.
«This has been another illustration for why we need to
elect more women to office.
McCaskill was seen as perhaps the most endangered of the Senate Democrats running for re-election this year (Gillibrand has made a point of conducting her «Off the Sidelines» campaign to
elect more women to public office, a narrative that her own GOP opponent, Wendy Long, has gleefully sought to turn on its ear).
We all know that Gillibrand's «campaign to
elect more women» is really a campaign to elect more liberals.
At The Vancouver Board of Trade's 128th AGM, incoming Chair Tim Manning announced an unprecedented decision to
elect more women than men to the board of directors — something that has not happened before in the organization's history.
Gillibrand's push for the WFP is eyebrow - raising in part because of Cuomo's efforts to establish the Women's Equality Party as a permanent party through the next election cycle and Gillibrand's own backing of
electing more women to public office.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences President José van Dijck says
electing more women won't come at the expense of male candidates.
She says that
electing more women is key to changing the tone in Washington.
Canada About Blog Equal Voice is a national, bilingual, multi-partisan organization dedicated to
electing more women to all levels of political office in Canada.
Not exact matches
While in Congress, she co-founded the National
Women's Political Caucus along with Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm, working to secure more elected positions for women in poli
Women's Political Caucus along with Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm, working to secure
more elected positions for
women in poli
women in politics.
Unquestionably the issues raised are of far
more fundamental theological and religious importance than cleaning up sexist language and
electing women bishops, important as those achievements are.
If he can just get those of the weak and thoughtless minds to concentrate on gay people and not on his distorted unemployment statistics, pay - offs to his union buddies, economy collapsing debt, bullying of the American businessman /
woman, ever - lavish spending wife (our money, not theirs), and a debacle of a healthcare plan, then maybe, maybe he might just get
elected again so that he can do even
more damage than he has already wrought.
Give it 20
more years, and the idea of someone being
elected that plays upon the LGBT «Question» will be looked at the same as someone campaigning on the basis that
women should not show their ankles or elbows in public.
I have also remembered former students at Judson College, Alfred University, the University of Georgia, Wesleyan University in Middletown (in a gratifying interim), the hundreds of men in Yale College who
elected Religion 21 a in the decade of the fifties and the
more than a thousand men and
women at Yale Divinity School who have had no choice.
A Charleston caterer this month became the first African - American
woman elected to the board of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), an 88 - year - old professional organization that counts
more than 17,000 chefs among its members.
As I continue on this journey, I find the
more I learn about hospitals and standard procedures and doctors» timeframes, etc., the
more I think
women who
elect to birth in a hospital are «brave» rather than the
women who do so in their own homes.
Though most mothers still give birth in a hospital setting,
more and
more women are
electing to have their babies in birth centers or even in the comfort and privacy of their own homes.
MADRID, SPAIN — Parliament passed a gender - equality bill Thursday aimed at getting
more women into
elected office and corporate boardrooms — and
more men heating baby bottles and changing diapers.
Parliament passed a gender - equality bill Thursday aimed at getting
more women into
elected office and corporate boardrooms — and
more men heating baby bottles and changing diapers.
Women elect to work because they will get
more recognition and appreciation in the workforce than at home?
Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get
more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding
women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers
electing to bottle - feed.39
At the present rate, it will be
more than 150 years before there are equal numbers of men and
women elected to English local councils
«And Eliot Spitzer did
more to protect
women's health and our right to choose than almost any other
elected official anywhere
However, what is puzzling, is why do
women (or any other identity - politics aficionados who care
more about gender than a person's individual qualities) who complain about lack of
women being
elected, don't actually put their money where their mouths are and support and vote for those
women who DO run for office?
So, in the decades since feminist ideals have been instilled in the populous, it seems that
more women should have been
elected into high public office.
Gillibrand, who has made a name for herself by trying to get
more women elected to Congress through her «Off the Sidelines» initiative, applauded Maloney's actions yesterday and decried Issa's decision.
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At a time when the struggles and hardships of
women and children who have been sexually abused and harassed are becoming
more apparent as victims find the courage to come forward, it is baffling these
elected officials are acting as a roadblock.
In this chapter, Brown also charts the rise of
women into positions of political leadership writing that «by 2013,
more than eighty
women had held the highest
elected governmental office in a variety of countries, spanning every continent in the world» (p. 38).
Queens Democrat Cathy Nolan in a radio interview on Thursday said
electing a
woman speaker of the state Assembly would bring a
more «collaborative style» to the chamber's leadership.
A coalition of
women's groups and
elected officials pushed for public campaign financing saying it will mean
more women are
elected to public office.
«Now
more than ever, we must
elect representatives to Washington who will stand up in support of labor's collective bargaining rights so that working men and
women may have a voice on the job, a chance to negotiate for fair pay and safe working conditions, and the ability to a secure a comfortable retirement.»
It might make sense that, say, technology bloggers would be disproportionately male, since many
more men than
women work in high - tech (and obsess about it), but politics is a different animal —
women may still be underrepresented in top
elected offices, but at least as many
women as men work as political activists and political staff or as volunteers.
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Conservative activists have rejected leader David Cameron's latest attempt to modernise the party by trying to get
more women and ethnic minorities
elected to parliament.
«We need to have
more women in
elected offices at all levels,» said Stefanik, whose district includes the North Country and Warren, Washington and parts of Saratoga counties.
While 2018 has marked a watershed moment with regard to
women running for
elected office, we know that there is still much work to be done to ensure greater gender equity, including
more opportunities for
women to have many seats at the political and business leadership table.
INWOOD — Several
elected officials and uptown leaders came together Thursday to call for
more domestic violence education and outreach programs after an Inwood
woman was killed by her ex-boyfriend on New Year's Eve.
She said the party needed to do
more to engage
women voters, and to get
more women elected to Congress.
Other measures being considered include the establishment of a website allowing
women to secretly disclose their salaries, criminalising forced marriage and seeking ways to get
more female mayors
elected.