Sentences with phrase «fewer women ministers»

We have the Liberal Democrats in government with us and they have fewer women ministers and MPs than we do, but I think 50 % would be difficult to get to by 2020 but if you look at the candidates we're selecting, including candidates in replacement seats, Conservative - held seats, I think over 33 % are women candidates.

Not exact matches

At least the whole of male ministers is not judged by the manner / behavior / attitude of a few, as it seems women ministers are.

It seems only fitting to ask a few questions and make a few observations about the new women married to ministers.

We have to ask these particular questions since women who happen to be married to ministers are still around in rather large numbers, while men who happen to be married to ministers are still relatively few.

What few exceptions there were occurred when women survived the death of their minister husbands.

I guess I needed to cry about a few things and there was a beautiful woman there, ministering life to me, holding my hands, handing my tissues, crying with me.

At a state dinner in Washington a few years back, I was seated next to the new economics minister of China, a beautiful woman with a razor - sharp mind.

Again, the evasion is readily applicable to feminist theology: «I can accept women as equals and co-workers in the public world, as long as my wife remains a traditional homemaker; I'll support the ERA, but I won't have to change my own life style; it's all right for women to become ministers, but my congregation will never call one as pastor; it's OK for a few women to come into our system, as long as their presence requires no major structural changes.»

Minister for Faith and Communities Baroness Warsi told Premier's News Hour she thinks the women appointed to cabinet have earned their new positions, she said: «Liz Truss, who've I've known for many years Nicky Morgan, Esther McVey; phenomenally talented women who quite rightly should be in cabinet, and it was right that they've built up their experience over the last few years since being elected and now they're going to serve at the top table.»

Like the families they ministered to, the women longed for a few hours they could spend on a date with their husbands, sipping coffee with a friend or simply readying the house for a party.

However, analysis by The Times has shown that there are fewer women in office than when Gordon Brown held a reshuffle almost exactly ten years ago, and the number of state - educated ministers has fallen since last week.

Theresa May's government has fewer women than Gordon Brown's had a decade ago and the proportion of ministers who attended state schools has fallen to less than half.

The Minister of State for Employment and one of the few women in David Cameron's male - dominate cabinet, Esther McVey had only held Wirral West since 2010.

Baroness Morris of Bolton (Shadow Minister for Women and Health) asked a question that will cause fewer palpitations:

Gloria De Piero, shadow minister for women and equalities, said: «The Tories have spent the last few days briefing that this would be the reshuffle which fixed David Cameron's «women problem» but it's turning in to a damp squib.»

She is a true ensemble player, never showboating but always seamlessly matching the rest of the cast, whether she is playing a notoriously awful singer in «Florence Foster Jenkins,» a house band front woman in «Rikki and the Flash,» or a British Prime Minister in «The Iron Lady,» to mention just a few of her most recent roles.

The planning came out of the AGGG's 1987 Bellagio workshop with an assist from Gro Bruntdland, the dynamic Prime Minister of Norway (the only woman to hold that post) and a few other environment - minded world leaders.