Sentences with phrase «for general women»

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Aidis looked at data in five key categories: general business environment, accessibility of resources, women's rights and the prevalence of women in leadership roles, potential for high - growth female - owned businesses, and the entrepreneurship pipeline — the category Canada scored lowest in.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said he had «no reason to doubt» the women who have come forward in recent days with sexual - misconduct accusations against Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican running for Sessions» vacated Senate seat.

While it's smart for women to consider which fields pay well in general when choosing a career, they shouldn't rush to switch based on a perceived gender disparity in earnings, Britton said.

Treasurer and general counsel — other senior positions in which women have made headway — also aren't seen as feeders for the top job.

«The general picture is little changed on last month, with the overall employment rate and that for women both at record highs, the inactivity rate at a joint record low and the unemployment rate falling to its lowest since early summer 1975,» Matt Hughes, a senior statistician at the ONS said.

Winning the prestigious 2003 Telstra Western Australian Business Woman of the Year award was Subiaco business woman Linda Wayman for her role as general manager of Austereo, PWoman of the Year award was Subiaco business woman Linda Wayman for her role as general manager of Austereo, Pwoman Linda Wayman for her role as general manager of Austereo, Perth.

Women pay a kind of «pink tax» whenever they are charged more for «feminine» items, or even general services, such as dry cleaning.

They hope to be able to amass enough data about women's menstrual cycles, sexual behavior, mood, and diet that they can help any woman know exactly when to conceive, warn her about early problems like potential endometriosis, and over time, promote better health care for women in general by collecting large amounts of information that hasn't been collected before.

Famous for being the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General, Reno served eight eventful years under President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

It was really before there was a general awareness of sexual harassment, so it was a bit of an unkind environment for a young woman at the time.»

America's largest companies have a long way to go before they can achieve equal pay — the National Women's Law Center reports American women make $ 0.80 for men's $ 1.00 — but companies like General Motors and PepsiCo are making changes that pay women and men equally for the same work and foster pathways to higher - paying leadership positWomen's Law Center reports American women make $ 0.80 for men's $ 1.00 — but companies like General Motors and PepsiCo are making changes that pay women and men equally for the same work and foster pathways to higher - paying leadership positwomen make $ 0.80 for men's $ 1.00 — but companies like General Motors and PepsiCo are making changes that pay women and men equally for the same work and foster pathways to higher - paying leadership positwomen and men equally for the same work and foster pathways to higher - paying leadership positions.

«We know our solution works for the general U.S. population, but we want to make sure it is more culturally respectful, and can help the health outcomes of these population groups,» says Goodwin, whom I first met at IEEE's Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference last spring.

As somebody who's worked for about a dozen women and two dozen men (mostly editors), my observation is that the women, in general, were smarter, sharper, more reliable and, well, smarter.

All the industry giants have been criticized for continuing to have such low numbers of women on the board, in management positions or even in the workforce in general.

According the U.S. 2014 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report, growth is a major stumbling block for small businesses in general and women - led firms in particWomen - Owned Businesses Report, growth is a major stumbling block for small businesses in general and women - led firms in particwomen - led firms in particular.

Kathleen has received numerous awards including: Puget Sound Business Journal's 2017 CFO of the Year for a large public company, Puget Sound Business Journal's 2012 Outstanding Corporate Counsel of the Year, Seattle Business Magazine's 2013 General Counsel of the Year, San Francisco Business Times» 2013 Corporate Counsel of the Year finalist, and honoree in San Francisco Business Times» Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business 2014.

«I just can't imagine that Nikolas Cruz can commit such a heinous crime and then potentially we tell a 20 - year - old woman living alone that she can not buy a firearm to defend herself,» said Rep. Jay Fant, R - Jacksonville, a candidate for attorney general.

Sara Brand, founding general partner of True Wealth Ventures, proposed her solution to getting additional VC funding for female startup founders and increasing the number of women becoming VC partners during the Austin Business Journal's Face 2 Face interview.

«It's a blind spot in the economy and an opportunity for investors,» said Sara Brand, founding general partner at True Wealth Ventures, an early - stage venture capital fund investing in women - led businesses in the fields of consumer health and environmentally sustainable products and technologies.

True Wealth Ventures Founding General Partner Dr. Sara Brand and General Partner Kerry Rupp speak at two San Antonio Startup Week events for women entrepreneurs and women investors; «Outperformance and Opportunities: Women Investors and Women Entrepreneurs» at 8:00 -9:30 am, and «Empowering Entrepreneuring Women» at 1:30 - 2:3women entrepreneurs and women investors; «Outperformance and Opportunities: Women Investors and Women Entrepreneurs» at 8:00 -9:30 am, and «Empowering Entrepreneuring Women» at 1:30 - 2:3women investors; «Outperformance and Opportunities: Women Investors and Women Entrepreneurs» at 8:00 -9:30 am, and «Empowering Entrepreneuring Women» at 1:30 - 2:3Women Investors and Women Entrepreneurs» at 8:00 -9:30 am, and «Empowering Entrepreneuring Women» at 1:30 - 2:3Women Entrepreneurs» at 8:00 -9:30 am, and «Empowering Entrepreneuring Women» at 1:30 - 2:3Women» at 1:30 - 2:30 pm.

But when it claims that the «free» contraceptive coverage can be afforded by the insurer because «cost - savings» will result from «improvements in women's health and fewer childbirths,» the administration is admitting that the contraception is already being paid for by the employer, if its policy covers childbirth and women's health in general.

The International Olympics Committee negotiated with Saudi Arabia for months before finally convincing the country, which systematically excludes women from not just sports but social or outdoor activities in general, to allow these two athletes to go to London.

The encyclical warned of four resulting trends: a general lowering of moral standards throughout society; a rise in infidelity; a lessening of respect for women by men; and the coercive use of reproductive technologies by governments.

But the more time marches on, the more Humanae Vitae appears prophetic, for Paul VI voiced four concerns regarding artificial contraception that have largely become realities: a general lowering of moral standards; increased marital infidelity; the reduction of women to instruments for the fulfillment of male desire; and public authorities engaging in coercive population planning programs.

As Jennifer puts it, Planned Parenthood's primary mission is one that no reasonable person could oppose: general health care for all women, regardless of income.

Romney's comment was perhaps well meant, but taken in the context of all of his ideas about women, that they must be taken care of because they are fragile, delicate creatures, who can't think or care for themselves and are better fit for staying home and taking care of the offspring than out in the work force, the words mirror his general condescending attitude toward women.

The American Psychological Association notes that women who experience miscarriage are vulnerable to a whole host of other mental health issues such as postpartum depression, general anxiety / depression, and difficulty caring for existing children.

I suggested that perhaps the lifeboats on the Titanic point to a more general sense that the stronger in a dangerous situation are morally compelled to protect the weaker in a dangerous situation, and that mothers can be awfully protective of their children after all, and that a man who (for whatever reason) might be weaker than a woman in a given situation should not feel like less of a man if she protects him.

His last two general audiences, dedicated to gender and to complementarity between man and woman, are but additions to the many similar pronouncements he has already made — for example, when in the Philippines he warned about the «ideological colonisation of the family».

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

The one exception to humanity's general wickedness, a young woman who does not make it onto the ark, stands in for all the innocents swept away in the Flood.

The search and struggle for recovering the theological voice of women by changing the discursive frameworks of theology in general and biblical studies in particular has absorbed my own thought and work in the past decade.

In its most recent resolution on the subject, the Episcopal Church declared in July 1988 that hard - core pornography abuses the self - images of women, children and men, and urged congregations to support then — Attorney General Edwin Meese's report with its call for stricter and tougher enforcement of already existing laws against pornography.

The writer, Bill Sakovich, is a professional translator of Japanese to English who's lived in Japan for two decades or so, who married a Japanese woman, and who just loves Japanese culture in general — in many of his cultural posts, for example, he suggests that the more typical Japanese approach to religion, while seemingly shallow, contradictory, and form - obsessed, makes a lot of sense to him, and indeed, is superior to Western ways.

Racism... Child Labor Laws... Protections for the poor... Women's Rights... Labor Laws in general... Religious Persecution... Voting Rights... oh wait, the past sucked and the future can only be better as long as we embrace progressivism and abandon all that Dark Ages crap.

Mrs. Clinton has been making speeches on women's rights, joining in the general drumbeat for the UN conference on women in Beijing.

If we are able to mention in general terms (with due caution regarding the seal) that many women have been greatly helped by the sacrament of penance, that can in itself remove a barrier for some women who perhaps thought they would be rejected if they were to come to confession.

that our bishops be urged to form a panel of highly qualified men and women for handling any future incidents of this sort (they should not only be well informed but well used to debating), and also for seeing in a more general way that the Catholic case is properly presented or defended in the media: one thinks for instance of men like Professors Peter Hodgson and John Haldane or Father Aidan Nichols); 3.

As the Bible underlines, the Almighty is no species - egalitarian; the creation accounts bring man and woman into view as the summit of the visible creation, with everything else placed at their service, and in general, with lower things being placed at the service of higher ones (plants are given to animals for food, and later, after the flood, animals are given to men for food).

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.&General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.&general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of — to put it broadly — evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out somewhat to the right of the podium, and I turn my head to see a woman with long brown hair, somewhere in her middle thirties, seated in the third or fourth row, shaking her head in wide - eyed astonishment at my loutish stupidity.

Understanding this tradition through secondary sources is risky, especially today; for much of what is now said about the Bible in general and this story in particular — for example, that it is sexist, or that it justifies the subjugation of women — strikes me as either erroneous or shallow.

In that case, five black women sued General Motors for discrimination.

In addition to clashes over liberation theology, Vatican authorities have continued to uphold official teaching on sexual ethics in general (as in a 1986 statement on homosexuality by Cardinal Ratzinger) and have withstood calls even for an open discussion of women's ordination or of ending celibacy as a requirement for the priesthood.

Certainly in the past thirty years there has been a dramatic increase in consideration of the proper status and role of women in the various cultures of the world in general ways, and for Christians a dramatic increase in discussion and debate about the status and role of women in the Church.

As a Lutheran pastor, I supported women's ordination as part of a more general argument that God did not intend men and women to have different roles, and I found support for this position in Martin Luther's writings.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

In addition to these concrete demands are general demands, of which the most important are: emancipation of women; radical agricultural reform; general reduction in working hours; disarmament; the rejection of all forms or racism; the creation of a planned transfer of wealth from the countries of the North to the countries of the South to compensate for the pillage which these peoples have been and still are subjected to.

The general trend is for women over 50 to be the largest viewing group in the audience of the syndicated programs.

The overarching concept that, for Lasch, links changes in women's roles and the family to the cultural history of the West in general is the rationalization of everyday life.