Sentences with phrase «greater equality for women»

«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of religion, the oppression of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just stand back and watch it»

Despite this, progress towards greater equality for women is being made both in North America and on a global level.

Cannes Film Festival 2018 Jury Chair Cate Blanchett and Palme d'Or - winning director Agnes Varda stood among 82 women in film who gathered on the red carpet at the Lumière Theater to protest the 71 year old festival's exceptionally poor record on inclusion of women in all areas of festival programming, and demand greater equality for women in the film industry.

«We support the issues relating to the Women's Equality Agenda and we are hopeful that by working with the Legislatrure, we will move towards greater equality for women this year.

Not exact matches

Now, with this essential funding commitment from the Province, We for She 2018 will continue to bring together women and B.C. students for a fifth annual one - day forum, with the ultimate goal of making gender equality in leadership a priority,» said Iain Black, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

In response to our coordinate efforts for Mutuality 2012, I have heard from women who say they feel their dignity and worth have been restored, from multiple readers who have changed their minds about women in ministry, from couples relieved that they can finally put a name to how their relationship has functioned all along, from singles freshly inspired by the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds them, from followers of Jesus whose passion for justice and equality has been renewed, from women ready to «get on with it» and stop asking permission to use their gifts and start unapologetically using them.

While Knust does a great job deconstructing our idealized notions that the Bible unilaterally supports the nuclear family, abstinence before marriage, and women's equality, I think she takes some of her own conclusions a bit too far at times — for example, suggesting that David and Jonathan were definitely lovers.

It's great there is a movement for equality for women with feminism.

While it's great to see Andy push for equality when comments like this arise, it's also not his job to constantly correct people and remind them that the sport has an entire women's tour as well.

Atlanta Black LGBT Coalition: «Rev. Warren's hateful opposition to civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and reproductive rights for women, and his intolerance of diversity contradict the values of freedom and equality that this day represents... Bestowing Rev. Warren such a prominent role does not foster greater understanding between divided communities.

Women and Equalities is something I have spent years fighting for and this appointment is a great honour.»

The team has 16 women and 14 men - a boost for gender equality - with two women in the four «great offices of state» and six ethnic minority members, the most ever.

Mr Hammond said the issue of abortion was «a matter of great importance» and that Justine Greening, the Minister for Women and Equalities, would be making an announcement «by way of a letter to members of this House explaining that she intends to intervene to fund abortions in England for women arriving here from Northern Ireland&raWomen and Equalities, would be making an announcement «by way of a letter to members of this House explaining that she intends to intervene to fund abortions in England for women arriving here from Northern Ireland&rawomen arriving here from Northern Ireland».

Zephyr will be a strong and persuasive voice for moving the country toward greater equality in earnings for women and the 99 %, increasing the minimum wage, and helping more citizens engage in electoral politics by supporting public funding of elections.

The workshop Gender Stereotypes and Gendered Attitudes in the Assessment of Women's Work was an opportunity for institutions and decision makers to be part of a knowledge transfer and a dialogue with gender experts and with other institutions in the European science system leading towards greater equality in how women and men are valued in sciWomen's Work was an opportunity for institutions and decision makers to be part of a knowledge transfer and a dialogue with gender experts and with other institutions in the European science system leading towards greater equality in how women and men are valued in sciwomen and men are valued in science.

No other era so perfectly captures the struggle for gender equality — women who helped win the war being forced out of the workforce — and also the clothes are just so great.

Maria Miller, chair of the women and equalities committee, who argued earlier in the debate that the bill «must make sex and relationships education compulsory» if it is to achieve its aim of promoting welfare for children, tweeted that Timpson's response was «great news».

While men have generally been making more money than women for decades, and it's not easy to change that, women can lower their chances of being paid unfairly by living in a state with greater salary equality.

5 Most men, despite lip - service to equality, are reluctant to give up this «natural» order of things in which their advantages are so great; for women, the case is further complicated by the fact that, as Mill astutely pointed out, unlike other oppressed groups or castes, men demand of her not only submission but unqualified affection as well; thus women are often weakened by the internalized demands of the male - dominated society itself, as well as by a plethora of material goods and comforts: the middle - class woman has a great deal more to lose than her chains.

We have tried to deal with one of the perennial questions used to challenge women's demand for true, rather than token, equality, by examining the whole erroneous intellectual substructure upon which the question «Why have there been no great women artists?»

there is such a need for equality for woman artists and they made a great point.

It is also worth mentioning that women seemed to care less about wealth and status in countries with greater equality; however, men's preferences for wealth and status did not increase in such cases.

By viewing women's infidelity as a possible search for a new way of being, we can help them reenvision a fully committed relationship with greater empowerment and equality.