Sentences with phrase «first labour women»

The tale begins with Bondfield, Susan Lawrence and Dorothy Jewson who were the first Labour women to win election to the House of Commons, in 1923.

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The Labour party appointed Seema Malhotra as the first - ever shadow minister to tackle violence against women and girls, and the Archbishop of Canterbury vocalised his backing for Christian charity Restored, which is equipping the Church to tackle gender - based violence.

On average too, the latent phase of the first stage of labour was shorter in women who consumed date fruit compared with the non-date fruit consumers (510 min vs 906 min, p = 0.044).

Fathers are often the main support for women during the first hours of labour when they are typically advised to stay at home.

Seven out of ten women in Ireland will take an epidural, and six out of ten women will receive syntocinon either in the first or second stage of labour.

Transfer in labour was also common (14 %), but on no occasion was obstetric intervention required in the first hour after transfer; women transferred appreciated having spent part of their labour at home

The labour and birth unfold slowly and it's such an honour to support not just the woman in the birth of her first baby but also in actually becoming a mother for the first time... I like to see first time couples from very early on in pregnancy and I work closely with them all through their pregnancy helping to dismiss all the nonsense that most people think labour and birth is about and support them in preparing for what will actually happen.

The bloody show is often a sign of early labour — especially amongst women expecting their first baby, and may be followed by other symptoms.

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

An assessment of midwife salaries from the first antenatal visit up to and including labour and delivery care resulted in a cost of $ 653 for each team care woman and $ 688 for each routine care woman.

On 8 June Labour's Preet Gill became the first woman Sikh MP.

After joining Parliament in 1982, a Parliament of 97 % men, Harriet set up the first Parliamentary Labour Party Women's Group.

It's an accessible read about one of the first women to break through to the top ranks of the Labour Party.

Honeyball argues persuasively that these early Labour women saw themselves as socialists first and feminists second, and skilfully describes the enormous prejudice they overcame, on both counts.

First elected in 1982, when only three percent of MPs were women, Harman entertains in reminiscence of Labour leader Michael Foot.

However, his allies insisted that comment was not in any way levelled at his Labour leadership opponent, one of the first openly gay woman MP

Labour peer says the government must replace «gender neutral» budgeting with economic policies that put women first

When asked about whether the Conservatives should match Labour's «big strides» on increasing women's representation through all - women shortlists, Morgan - in her first comments on the issue since taking on her new job - did not rule the option out.

«First that every man shall marry at least two women and the man who refuses to do so shall be subjected to life imprisonment with hard labour.

Shirley Williams - 80Still one of the most active peers in the Lords, in 1950 Shirley Williams became the first woman to chair the Oxford University Labour Club.

Balls's wife, Yvette Cooper, the 40 - year - old Work and Pensions Secretary, recently tipped as potentially «Labour's first permanent woman leader» by Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, remains one to watch.

There have also been further murmurs from MPs and Labour members on the right that they are unhappy that Smith was chosen ahead of Eagle, believing that after the Conservatives adopted their second woman leader and prime minister, Labour should be getting round to its first.

Prior to Christmas the regular YouGov polls were showing the Conservatives still leading amongst women while they fell behind amongst men — this year Labour have more usually lead amongst both groups — certainly it looks at first glance as though the Tory advantage amongst women is fading.

Jeremy Corbyn has paid tribute to murdered Labour MP Jo Cox during a speech at the party's National Women's Conference, effectively his first engagement after being re-affirmed as party leader.

So the move of Diane Abbott up to the home secretary brief and promotion of Emily Thornberry to shadow foreign (incidentally, the first time a Labour shadow cabinet has seen an even gender split in the «great offices of state» as well as the elevation of a black woman to such a position) ensures that at the very top there's a unanimity of opinion.

«Left - wing Labour MP Diane Abbott announced today she was running for the party leadership, becoming the first woman to enter the race.

When Angela Eagle laid out her challenge to Jeremy Corbyn, her arms raised in a pink jacket and flanked by two bright banners with her first name scrawled across them, she declared herself a «strong Labour woman».

When she won the marginal seat of Falmouth and Camborne in 1997, famously defeating the Conservative incumbent, Sebastian Coe, she became the first Labour MP in Cornwall since 1970 and the first woman MP in the county since 1920.

[60] Attending her first session of First Minister's Questions as Labour leader on 22 December 2011, she addressed the issue of child neglect following the conviction of a Glasgow woman for the murder of her son and asking what lessons could be learned from the first session of First Minister's Questions as Labour leader on 22 December 2011, she addressed the issue of child neglect following the conviction of a Glasgow woman for the murder of her son and asking what lessons could be learned from the First Minister's Questions as Labour leader on 22 December 2011, she addressed the issue of child neglect following the conviction of a Glasgow woman for the murder of her son and asking what lessons could be learned from the case.

Second came the year the NHS was founded, with 24 %, but this was the first choice among Labour voters (42 %), Liberal Democrats (33 %), women (23 %) and working class electors (30 %).

In the first, a pregnant Alberta woman vacationing in Ontario went into labour two months before her due date.

Legal aid is due to be withdrawn from clinical negligence in April 2013, but an exception has been made for babies who suffer brain damage at birth or are injured in the first eight weeks of life, and for women who are injured during pregnancy or labour.

1-05-1986 Shirley Carr becomes the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.

In the US and Canada, most men and women are in the labour force when their first child is born, and about 60 % of women who have a child under three years of age are employed.5 Concerns about parental stress (caused by the difficulties of balancing work and family responsibilities) and about children's well - being (in their earliest years of life) have prompted further consideration regarding how parental leave and benefit policies might be improved, and which complementary policies, programs, and services will best promote child and family well - being.