Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority women»

At 15 - week follow - up, regression analyses found that racial and ethnic minority women in MBRP, compared to non-Hispanic and racial and ethnic minority women in RP, reported significantly fewer drug use days (d =.31) and lower addiction severity (d =.65), based on the Addiction Severity Index.

Although the small sample size is a limitation, the results suggest that MBRP may be more efficacious than traditional treatments for racial and ethnic minority women.

A 2007 European Commission — funded report put together by a network of social researchers in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom found that black, migrant, and ethnic minority women scientists were underrepresented in all seven countries.

Labour has drawn some criticism in recent months for its parliamentary selections in marginal seats, where no ethnic minority women have been selected at all, despite more than 60 selections taking place since the June election.

Would it not have been wiser, therefore, for her to have focused her speech on the lack of working - class and ethnic minority women among Labour's ranks and offer some practical remedy?

Her debut play, Crowning Glory, about how ethnic minority women are perceived in western society, received glowing reviews.

Oral Questions - Action to encourage women and girls to take part in sport and improve the profile of women's sport in the media - Baroness Massey of Darwen; Addressing the under - representation of women, especially black and ethnic minority women, on FTSE 100 boards - Baroness Howells of St Davids; Ensuring the action plan for ending violence against women and girls is delivered consistently in schools - Baroness Prosser

Twice as many ethnic minority women live in poverty in the UK than white women, according to a report by the Fawcett Society.

University diversity officer Bahar Mustufa rose to fame for asking white men not to attend an event organised for ethnic minority women, as well as her decision to tweet the hashtag #killallwhitemen.

«When they cut legal aid,» she says, «a lot of lawyers - particularly black and ethnic minority women lawyers - could no longer survive on the money we were earning because we were getting paid peanuts.

So rest easy, those pesky ethnic minority women won't be taking over any time soon.

Gestational weight gain and subsequent postpartum weight loss among young, low - income, ethnic minority women

Not exact matches

Since Wall Street usually expresses its priorities by rewarding, through higher compensation, the behavior it seeks, the firms that are offering more money to women and ethnic minorities appear to be sending the message that they want to change what historically has been a white male dominated business.

Wall Street is trying to attract more women and ethnic minorities into its predominantly white, male ranks.

Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

They might pretend in order to fool women, LGBTQ folk, and racial or ethnic minorities into voting for them, or they might pretend in order to make other folks feel less bad about voting for them.

The results come as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and ethnic minorities.

At present, the board of Amazon.com, Inc. includes no racial or ethnic minorities, according to data from Institutional Shareholder Services, and just three women.

Usually this statement surfaces when the discussion is about increasing ethnic minority enrollment or increasing the number of women and ethnic - minority faculty.

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

Today women, ethnic and minority groups, all older, constitute the majority of students.

Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.

And would the churches nominate women, members of ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities to this ministry?

In our own time, there are at least some efforts to include women, ethnic minorities, the homeless, and other previously repressed and excluded minorities as fully belonging to social and religious circles.

As well as increasing the number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) clergy, the church also wants to attract more women and younger people.

«If our churches are going to be more relevant to our communities, that means increasing churches that are led by priests that are women, who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups,» she said.

He has observed that the marginalization of women, racial / ethnic / minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick, in short the majority of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread of the forces of globalization.

In the treatment of blacks, ethnic minorities, and women we still have far to go, but it would be hard to argue that we were better in these respects at any earlier period in our history.

Balmer wrote his book, however, as an evangelical who wanted to recover what he considered to be the heart of the movement, which was its late - nineteenth - century coalition of conservative theology and progressive social activism around the poor, women, and ethnic minorities.

HM Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams reviewed the situation two years ago and found so called honour killings disproportionately affect women from ethnic minorities.

In his ministry, Jesus started not with the wealthy, the politically - connected, or the religious elite, but with the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the uneducated, slaves, women, and ethnic and religious minorities.

He explores how Methodism grew from a barely perceptible impulse in the Church of England in the 18th century to a foremost expression of Christianity in the modern world; how the mixing of Enlightenment rationality and evangelical enthusiasm resulted in Methodism's perennial doubleness of vision; how the Methodist message was heard, internalized and enacted in a bewildering variety of social and geographic locations; how opposition from Outsiders fostered strength while conflict between insiders fostered weakness; how money was raised, spent and symbolized; how women and racial and ethnic minorities found nourishment in the Methodist message; how the movement managed to circle the globe completely; and finally, how a gaggle of theories about secularization might help us understand Methodism's decline in the latter half of the 20th century.

Jesus used his platform to create space for the bleeding woman to share her story, for the little children to come swap stories with him, and for alienated ethnic minorities to talk about their experiences and perspectives on faith.

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«A recent national survey of women's experience of maternity care in the UK reported that women from black and minority ethnic groups were more likely to recognise their pregnancy later, access care later, and consequently book later for antenatal care than were white women.»

Primiparous women from ethnic minorities, those with uncertain dates, and those not attending antenatal classes more often chose hospital.

Multiparous women were more likely to choose a hospital birth if they belonged to an ethnic minority; had a non-optimal body mass (Quetelet index outside the range 18.8 - 24.2; P < 0.05); had a history of obstetric complications, preterm birth, or instrumental delivery; or had received medication (including vitamins and iron) in pregnancy (table 2).

The 2017 election delivered the most diverse House of Commons in history, with the number of LGBT, women and ethnic minority MPs rising.

For Chana, who worked with black and minority ethnic (BAME) women, that specialist knowledge is even more important.

Many artists in the industry - like the consumers - are women and ethnic minorities.

If this is not enough, the decade - long war may have produced a breed of Taliban who are believed to be much harder and harsher than their older lot when it comes to the rights of women, ethnic minorities and religious dissidents.

One worry with youth quotas may be that the policy could undermine other legitimate struggles for descriptive representation — for instance, that of women and ethnic minorities.

The Emerging Democratic Majority argues that the Democratic Party in the U.S. will have a permanent majority in the near future, because coalitions within the Democrat (e.g. youth, women, ethnic minorities) are growing faster than the coalitions making up the Republican party.

Headline figures can also disguise other complexities, such as the prevalence of unemployment amongst ethnic minorities, women, disabled people, young people, and people who have been unemployed for long periods of time.

As with many Tory policies, it's people in the north, the young, ethnic minorities and women who are particularly badly affected.

Specialist domestic violence services that support Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) women decreased by 17 % between 2010 - 2014.

The pressure on local authorities to save money has already led to a reduction of women - only and black and minority ethnic specialist services.

His recent advocacy of selection procedeures for the next round of Assembly Elections that would see women and ethnic minority candidates get preferential treatment underlined his Cameroonian credentials.

Morgan has been involved in the field of women's rights (having heavily promoted the introduction of all - women shortlists for political parties), as well as the welfare of children, black and minority ethnic and disabled people.

A policy which disproportionately affects ethnic minorities, LGBT people, women, the disabled and those living in less affluent areas is not only an affront to basic principles of fairness and social justice but also exacerbates the inequality crisis which continues to worsen across the UK.