Sentences with phrase «gender issue at»

I've written about that previously in the context of women leaving the profession, but I have come to conclude that this isn't a gender issue at all.

In fact, the real gender issue at work here is a lot more interesting than the one the movie touches on.

Guedea Carreà ± o has perused the newsletter and has seen topics ranging from scenario planning and profit patterns to affiliate marketing and gender issues at work.

I was transfixed by the complex emotions and gender issues at play when Philip was required to kneel for his Queen.

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When the results were brought up at a Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg, he said gender bias was «an issue.»

These seven innovators» actions and ideas aren't just improving the ways we do business; they also speak to broader issues, including national security, gender bias, world poverty and the state of the startup community at large.

There are many issues at stake, particularly the role of women in the military, and, as Fox News put it, the «blurring of gender lines.»

High profile edge cases, like the sexual harassment allegations at Uber, have the unfortunate effect of making ongoing diversity and gender equality issues seem insignificant in comparison.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his speech at the World Economic Forum 2018 annual meeting in Davos, eastern Switzerland on January 23, 2018 to reaffirm Canada's leadership on the issue of gender equality, both at home and at the upcoming G7 meeting, which Canada will chair.

«Given that Canada's foreign policy has put gender equity issues prominently at the top of its agenda, obviously this is something we wanted to highlight here: That you have a Canadian company actively undermining those rights abroad by facilitating censorship in countries where those rights aren't respected or recognized,» Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, told me over the phone.

We hope this new ETF will help bring greater focus to the issue of gender diversity at Canadian companies.»

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

He does not even touch on what the political scientists Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl have called the «Hillary Doctrine,» promulgated through the Office of Global Women's Issues established by Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, and according to which any denial of gender equality anywhere in the world is a threat to American order.

The campaign hopes to raise awareness about gender - based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional and international level.

Quit looking at life through a racist lens... Her gender, race, etc should not be an issue, it isnt for the GOP.

@ wrenn: gender discrimination is not at issue.

While I definitely agree that his response is great in many circumstances and (without knowing the context of that conversation) may have been the perfect thing to say at that moment, I think calling this statement «a template that can be used to respond to questions concerning sexuality, gender and other important issues» reduces a very complex issue down to a very simple response that doesn't really answer any questions for anyone.

Not because I don't understand — I do very much understand — why we also need to be looking at issues related to gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc..

She blogs at More Than Serving Tea and partners with other bloggers and pastors to highlight and move the conversation forward on issues of race, ethnicity, and gender within the Church.

In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

«At the Regional level, the Regional Commissions of the UN support Member States in addressing gender equality issues from the regional and sub-regional perspectives.

He told reporters in Perth: «Qantas has always spoken up on gender issues, on LGBTI issues, on Indigenous issues and we will continue to do so and no attempt at bullying us into suppressing our voice will work.»

I have no issue at all with MtF transgender people using the women's toilets, nor indeed with toilets that are not gendered (as is becoming more prevalent here with new public toilets).

When we consider head covering we tend to look at the gender issue only, but it clearly goes beyond that.

Gender equity in sports remains an issue at the vast majority of universities and colleges across the country, and how the Department of Education will enforce Title IX under the new Trump administration is unclear.

• A brief, inexpensive US intervention (one prenatal session, in separate gender groups focusing on psychosocial issues related to becoming first - time parents) was associated with reduced distress in some mothers at six weeks postpartum.

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto who writes frequently on issues of sexuality and gender in sport.

It makes sense that you might attach the issue at hand with the gender, and worry that your next child of the same gender will automatically face the same struggles.

That's where the stereotypical girl ends, however: this young woman, from this father's perspective, is a complex, one - of - a-kind human being who seems to feel free to embrace and reject gender roles, at least those of which she is aware (there always remains the issue of the gender roles to which we all unconsciously adhere).

At times, funds were allocated primarily to gender - related issues and at others, it was democratizatioAt times, funds were allocated primarily to gender - related issues and at others, it was democratizatioat others, it was democratization.

In 2015, the state Education Department issued further guidelines under the act to specifically prevent discrimination of transgender and gender - nonconforming students, along with suggestions on how to make them feel more comfortable at school, including the right to use the restroom and locker room in accordance with their gender identity, participate in gender - segregated activities in accordance with their gender identity, and adhere to dress codes in accordance with their gender identity and expression.

Elected officials, perhaps sensitive of the gender dynamics at play — after all, the male Naked Cowboy has worked shirtless in Times Square for years without much pushback — have repeatedly tried to tie the issue less to nudity and more to aggressive panhandling.

Former President Jimmy Carter spoke about his latest book, which touches on the issue of gender equality, at Yale University Tuesday afternoon.

At the event, the NASUWT issued a Gender Equality Challenge; a UK - wide initiative which will give schools the opportunity to showcase how they are promoting and demonstrating their commitment to gender equality for their pupils and their workGender Equality Challenge; a UK - wide initiative which will give schools the opportunity to showcase how they are promoting and demonstrating their commitment to gender equality for their pupils and their workgender equality for their pupils and their workforce.

«The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader has galvanised a new generation of activists, and this year at Left Field we aim to give them a platform to discuss issues around social justice, the economy, gender and the possibilities for genuine change under a Corbyn government.»

It is one of many factors that contribute to unacceptably high rates of poverty of female - headed households and an issue at the core of YWCA work throughout the state, particularly in Upstate NY where gender pay inequity is greatest.

Since then she has spoken about the topic at various events, including at a spring 2008 conference in Florida organized by the Gill Action Fund, a Colorado - based organization that advocates on gender and sexual orientation issues.

The long - discussed issue of the Buffalo School District's gender identity policy was voted on at Wednesday night's meeting of the School Board, and the meeting ended in celebration.

Minita Sanghvi, an assistant professor in Management and Business at Skidmore College who specializes in political marketing and issues of gender and power.

The panelists spoke candidly about their experiences as women of color in academia and answered a range of questions — from how they achieved personal / professional balance to how they felt about constant requests (including this one) to speak at programs on issues related to race, gender, or both.

As wonderful as blogging is, there's very little that's going to contribute to a grant or paper,» said Dr. Isis, a pseudonymous blogger who focuses on gender issues in science and scientific lifestyles, when she spoke at ScienceOnline2011 by video link, wearing sunglasses, a surgical mask, and a woolly pirate hat to conceal her identity.

Lisa Wolf - Wendel, a sociologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence who studies gender issues, says the impact of the new policy is hard to predict.

In a study published in Springer's journal Gender Issues, she investigated the characteristics shared by 31 school boys involved in 29 mass shootings at American schools between 1995 and 2015.

It also is one of few to look at gender inequality issues among health professions beyond pay disparities, and among the first of its kind to highlight how political regimes and governance issues influence health workforce production.»

AAAS, too, has repeatedly addressed this issue, including at symposia on the exploration of the early underpinnings of gender bias in the scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical fields for elementary age girls, and on new ways to expand the numbers of underrepresented groups in those fields — both held at its 2016 Annual Meeting in February.

In August 2012 a team of researchers at the Credit Suisse Research Institute issued a report in which they examined 2,360 companies globally from 2005 to 2011, looking for a relationship between gender diversity on corporate management boards and financial performance.

Transgender and gender nonconforming people are at high risk for diseases such as AIDS and are vulnerable to depression and other mental health issues, but may be reluctant to disclose their identities to researchers due to stigma.

The report argues that existing programs aimed at helping countries deal with climate change don't deal directly with gender issues, and maintains that global financing mechanisms need to specifically address the rights of girls.