Sentences with phrase «for votes for women»

There have been six of these in the last hundred years: the first, and most important, was in 1916, under the former Conservative, John Lowther, which prepared the path for votes for women over 30.

«The suffragettes who fought for votes for women and won.

There are plans for roads and railways, notes on the assassination of prime minister Spencer Perceval and a petition for votes for women from the mistresses of Dulwich High School in 1884.

Not exact matches

As it is, we've got Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright telling young women to vote for Clinton because she's a woman.

And for those of you keeping score at home, women got the the right to vote 97 years ago.

In the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructure.

«I voted for Zena not because she was black or a woman.

Republican Nan Hayworth tells CNBC she's voting for Trump despite his boasts in a leaked 2005 video about groping women.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

Yet millions of women voted for him anyway.

«Since 1920, women have sort of been fighting to make the vote real,» says Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (Iwomen have sort of been fighting to make the vote real,» says Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWomen's Policy Research (IWPR).

The Amendment is a vitally important one for the female half of the country's population: It gave (some) women the right to vote.

For example, if one of the areas you want to say you have experienced and impacted within the time - frame you have chosen is around U.S. voting numbers, you would probably want to have worked with your local representative's office or powerful and politically influential organizations such as the League of Women Voters or AARP.

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.

Make sure to subscribe so you can vote for your favorite women - led startup.

I'm not a conservative myself, but I'm reckoning there are a lot of conservative women out there who are disgusted by the PC use of Redford as an all - purpose witch and who might vote for Danielle Smith in protest of it.

In a shot across the bows for a number of companies, LGIM said it would vote against British companies where women did not represent at least a quarter of the board, and wanted a full breakdown of any gender pay gap and plans to close it.

LONDON AXA Investment Managers will vote in protest against companies which do not explain how they will boost the number of women on their boards, joining growing demands for workplace diversity.

In an interview, he recalled an elderly woman cautioning him at a recent town hall: ««Jason, I want to vote for you, but I'm still skeptical.»

He fought for racial equality and voting rights, for fair wages and the reproductive rights of women.

All the women in America will vote for Romney.

Any minority or woman who votes for Romney and any GOP candidate should have their head examined.

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

We painted the sancturay and the women told us men, we DID NOT have a vote ------ now how is that for restricting freedom?

The right to vote in this country for women and minorities would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, yet less than 100 years ago neither group enjoyed this right.

Too bad if more people vote FOR those who support giving poor women access to health care than vote as you do.

I'd vote for a Mormon, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, white guy, black guy, woman, gay, midget — anyone who can get results.

What would make a working man or woman ever vote for a Republican who only cares about them on election day and screwing them after that.

It would be akin to someone saying, «I'd never vote for a Muslim because they're all terrorist» or «I'd never vote for a woman, because they're all bad at math and bad drivers.»

One of my outside vendors told me that women get what they deserve based on who they vote for.

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

You go ahead and keep the tradition of intolerance and lack of community, I am going to vote for the man or woman who can make a difference because they know what they are doing and not because they have a belief I don't agree with.

Many of those most affected by the decision were excluded from the vote, for only 230 of the 2,644 delegates (8.7 percent) were women.

Democrats — Voted 54 % to approve equal rights for women as opposed to the Republicans who voted Voted 54 % to approve equal rights for women as opposed to the Republicans who voted voted 82 %.

Following «lewd and obscene» comments about women recorded on a «hot mic», Christina Rees argues that no Christian can consider voting for Trump... More

So even though I think abortion is morally wrong in most cases, and support more legal restrictions around it, I often vote for pro-choice candidates when I think their policies will do the most to address the health and economic concerns that drive women to get abortions in the first place.

It was precisely because of their deeply cherished faith that women were compelled to organize for the vote, for women to be declared persons under the law, for the rights of workers, for women to wear pants, for temperance even (because the victims of drunkenness were usually women and children), and so on.

Whether one voted for the Liberal Party of not, Canadians were thrilled to see a cabinet that reflected a fuller picture of who we are — First Nations, immigrants and born - and - raised Canadians, men and women, regional representation, gay and straight, Christian and Sikh and atheist and Muslim among other religions, differently abled, different socio - economic stories, and so on.

Perhaps that is why our country was founded on the principle of women not being allowed to vote for their own president, they didn't have as much going on up in their heads as men.

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

As to those conservative women who feel strongly enough to vote Republican on this issue alone, who ya gonna vote for?

At the end of the day, women, Catholic or not, are not going to vote for someone who is interested in sending them back to the 17th century so no, I don't believe Obama is going to lose the Catholic vote unless they didn't vote for him the last time.

A woman was asked whom she voted for and why and her answer was:

Because feminism has given women in the U.S. access to higher education, the voting booth, contraception, and property rights, and is still so misunderstood that women themselves say they have no use for it.

I know that votes like these can make Christian women feel like less - than, but I believe, deep in my bones, that things will get better for women in the Church.

Basing your vote on who is going to over-turn Roe v. Wade, or make marriage for one man / one woman «only» etc...

If you look at who voted for Obama it was the younger generation, women, African Americans and Latinos.

Women's sufferage (the right to vote) was almost 100 years ago for us.

How about placing all of these ignorant hateful bigot preachers behind an electrical fence and wait for them to die off... they steal money from dumb parishioners, abuse the little boys in the church, discriminate women, tell you how to vote for their own best interest, and worst of all spew prejudice, hateful ideology from the pulpit all in the name of JESUS.

Suffragists were marching to gain voting rights for women.