Sentences with phrase «from women of all backgrounds»

Peppered throughout are positive birth and pregnancy stories from women of all backgrounds (and all stages of their natural journey) along with advice and insights from a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) plus a Registered Nurse (RN), doula, and lactation consultant.

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When your workplace is home to a diverse group of individuals from different backgrounds and experiences, your company can more effectively market to all groups of consumers, from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds, men and women, older and younger adults and those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

The idea of diversity lands differently for women of color, women who are lesbians, or those from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

Most of the founders are women from science and engineering backgrounds who can relate to Whitehead as a «geek,» she says.

In chapters composed of approximately 20 accomplished women entrepreneurs, women presidents, from diverse industries and backgrounds, address business concerns in a roundtable format and function as an informal board of directors for their businesses.

During the second half of the program, attendees will hear local success stories from women and minority entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries and backgrounds.

There were so many women from all different backgrounds and religions, representing a huge diversity of businesses.

In 2012, I was part of a group of women who founded the Christian Feminist Network, a move that was greeted with immense positivity from women of all ages and from different church backgrounds.

In contrast to this background of smooth planes in muted colors, giant screens occasionally lower from the ceilings to show scenes of catastrophe in high enough definition that they seem to Jeffrey «immediate and real, a woman sitting life - sized on a lopsided chair in a house collapsed in a mudslide.»

Over the course of the next three weeks, I will be running the responses I received from about a dozen men and women from all over the country and from a tapestry of ethnic backgrounds.

I think the reason why I asked the question of you is partly because of the fundamentalist background I came from which places value on women based upon their child rearing, homekeeping, and service roles, basically serving men.

It is a commitment of men and women to the supremely worshipful reality called God, as this reality is believed to disclose itself to us, but it is not an individualistic commitment, since it demands full participation, to a greater or lesser degree, in a corporate experience conveyed through the ages by a community of men and women drawn from the most varied backgrounds and races, classes, nations, and cultures.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

I have presented these revised Twelve Steps to a variety of women's groups, including clergywomen, spiritual growth groups and psychotherapists from a variety of backgrounds.

Again, the meaning of 1 Timothy2: 8 - 15, which places various restrictions on women's dress and speech, depends not on our context, but on the double background of Paul's Judaism (where women were exempted from learning) and the situation at Ephesus (where untrained women who had submitted to heretical teachers seem to have been seeking to spread their beliefs, perhaps like the hierodules in the service of the temple of Diana, cf. 2 Tim.

When we look at the self - image that Our Lady left imprinted on the tilma — we notice that she is a brown - skinned young woman: a mestizo, whose family background includes a mix of descendants from Europe and indigenous peoples.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

Against this background, both the woman's desire for her husband, and his need through support to prove himself worthy of her desire, protect — at least at first — burdened and weaker woman from simple tyranny and, even more, from abandonment.

This chattel relationship in which from birth the woman stood to the male head of her family is consistently present in the background of the early Old Testament.

I've been reminded of this frequently this year as I've been attempting to take all of the Bible's instructions for women as literally as possible and as I've been interviewing women from a variety of religious backgrounds — from an Amish housewife, to an Orthodox Jew, to a stay - at - home - daughter, to a Quiverfull mom, to a pastor, to a polygamist.

The two women head a household of five kids, several of them from tough backgrounds, and deal with a whole bunch of drama from work and home.

And as we can see from Serena's story, this dismissal happens to black women of all socio - economic backgrounds.

With women of so many different shapes, sizes, ages and backgrounds seeking breast augmentation, this elective surgery is far from a one - size - fits - all solution to a woman's cosmetic concerns.

The women came from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds.9 10

We were a group of women from many different backgrounds and I'm sure we all had many differences of opinion regarding other social / political / religious issues.

The mission of the Julie Foudy Leadership Foundation is: Building on a foundation of sports and fitness, we empower young women from all socioeconomic backgrounds to become leaders who positively impact their communities.

Over 50000 information kits were distributed Australia - wide using a database that comprised contact details of medium to large workplaces plus employee and employer organizations, with preference given to workplaces that employed women of childbearing age and women from diverse cultural backgrounds.

In the Changing Childbirth in BC research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences with maternity care in British Columbia (BC).

To inform women from a variety of socio - economic and cultural backgrounds that: (i) they can continue to breastfeed on returning to paid employment from maternity leave; (ii) there are benefits to themselves and to their babies in continuing to breastfeed on return to paid employment after maternity leave; and (iii) there are steps they can take to maximize their success at combining breastfeeding and paid employment.

Through my membership on the HISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee, I've gotten to know some of these men and women over the last year and a half, and I recognize the significant hurdles they face in trying to feed over 200,000 kids a day, many from impoverished backgrounds, on a limited budget and under strict governmental regulations.

As a Certified Nurse Midwife for nearly 20 years, Melanie has had the honor of supporting thousands of women from a wide variety of social and cultural backgrounds throughout their pregnancies and childbirth experiences.

This rise and variation in rates is due to the use of reproductive techniques, and is partly accounted for by more births to older women and more multiple births in women from more affluent backgrounds (Smith 2014).

I see women from all types of lifestyles and backgrounds - athletes / fitness professionals and mothers who work in a cubicle and haven't see the inside of a gym since high school.

This provided unique information, often not available in survey research on this scale, also allowing comparison of women from dissimilar cultural backgrounds.

Sheila said, «With a clear vision of what we are seeking to achieve I believe we can encourage the most talented, across the whole community to become part of our profession — we need to have more women, more young people, more from ethnic backgrounds and more representatives of those who have mobility impairments working in our industry.

Free university education would have a positive impact on mature students who are often women from marginalised backgrounds (intake of mature students has dived since the introduction of increased fees).

The event gave leading Asian businesswomen and female entrepreneurs the chance to come together from all backgrounds and all parts of the UK to discuss the obstacles to greater entrepreneurship for Asian women.

For those who keep such scores, the House of Lords has a higher proportion of women, a higher proportion of people from ethnic minorities, a broader range of ethnic minorities, and far more people from working - class backgrounds generally and the trade union movement in particular, than can be found down the corridor.

«Our democracy and local communities will be stronger if women from different backgrounds are able to enjoy an equal voice,» said Jenny Watson, chairwoman of the EOC.

Statement from Breast Cancer Care on research from the University of Dundee that establishes a link between deprivation and the p53 gene to explain why women from poorer backgrounds are less likely to survive breast cancer.

Allegations of sexual harassment and assault by Mr. Weinstein were disclosed this month in The New York Times and The New Yorker, which prompted other women to share their accounts of his alleged abuse, set off criminal investigations, roiled the entertainment world and triggered a social media movement of women from other industries and backgrounds telling their stories.

Of those 51 candidates in the safe seats, 16 (31.4 %) are women and 4 (7.8 %) are from a BME background.

We know a lot more of tomorrow's Tory MPs are likely to be women, quite a few more will be from ethnic minority backgrounds and a lot will be gay... but is that real diversity?

He showed that of 51 selections in Tory - held seats during this Parliament, 31.4 % of selected candidates were women and 7.8 % from a minority background.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

«The next stage of my research is to conduct interviews with women from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and also recruit more GPs from rural and urban settings to take part in the research,» Ms Young said.

In her new paper for the Journal of Consumer Culture, Dr Tsaousi interviewed women from a wide range of groups and backgrounds, including university lecturers, young mums, and female rugby players.

The program targets mostly at - risk participants, drawn nationally, giving emphasis to recruiting underrepresented groups in engineering, namely women, African - Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Eskimos, and students of all backgrounds from rural schools.

The researchers interviewed 100 women from British Columbia who were largely from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and were not considered at high risk of postpartum mental health problems.

In a series of interviews, heterosexual women between the ages of 20 and 68 and from a range of backgrounds said that they believed love was necessary for maximum satisfaction in both sexual relationships and marriage.