Sentences with phrase «labouring woman»

This policy led to the election of 101 Labour women MPs in 1997.

She will be one of several prominent Labour women holding a press conference today to highlight the issue.

Only two new Labour women were elected (and over 30 new men), and by - election candidates replacing women were all men.

Despite more than 90 MPs signing the parliamentary motion against the proposals tabled by Audrey Wise MP, outbursts of anger at meetings of the PLP addressed by Harriet Harman, protests and vocal opposition from women Labour Party members and lone parent organisations — even Glenys Kinnock MEP added her name to a petition and letter against the proposals — the new batch of Labour women MPs were largely noticeable by their absence.

its okay to have feelings / preferences about any particular form of labour pain relief... but what I'm wondering is, why in general does it seem that pain relief for labouring women is perceived to be unimportant?

I am my own woman — a strong Labour woman,» she said, to cheers from supporters.

There's one Labour woman who has a special place in my politics: Ellen Wilkinson MP.

With news on the proposals getting through to Labour Party members over the summer, LWAC, together with Labour women MPs, took the initiative to launch the Save Lone Parent Benefit umbrella campaign.

Between 1992 and 1997, a campaign led by Labour women ensured that there were AWS in half of all potentially winnable seats.

She was elected to the Party's National Women's Conference in 1989 and chaired the National Conference of Labour Women in 1991.

Sponsored by UNISON, our Regional Women's Conference will bring together Labour women, politicians, stakeholders and activists from across the region.

Many Labour women will rightly see Owen Smith's comments as sexist and outdated, and for him to dismiss the issue as «banter» rather than apologising is not acceptable of a candidate for Labour leader.

Disappointed by the medicalisation of birth and unnecessary intervention in hospitals, where labouring women were made to lie on their back, she started to advocate the use of movement and gravity to help labour and birth.

% use of epidural / spinal anaesthesia (induced / labouring women only — excluding pre-labour caesarean section)

An understanding by health professionals that, rather than concentrate on either «medicalised» or «natural» birth, focussing on individualising care and normalising each woman's experience will ultimately provide the high quality care that labouring women require.

Noting the ease with which labouring women squat and give birth in the paddy fields, compared with the painful and laborious experience of many Western women in childbirth, she concluded that the stressful, sedentary modern lifestyle and sugary diet provide clues to the problem and that preparation, inside and out, was the key.

Harriet fought for more Labour women MPs through «women - only shortlists».

But even now, as the Shadow Education Secretary, I occasionally feel like someone's going to tap me on the shoulder and say, «the joke's over»; however, the solidarity and support from Labour women dispels those anxieties and doubts.

Honeyball argues persuasively that these early Labour women saw themselves as socialists first and feminists second, and skilfully describes the enormous prejudice they overcame, on both counts.

Elected to Manchester City Council in 1923, Ellen was unsuccessful in the general election that year but in 1924 won Middlesbrough East to become the sole Labour woman MP.

The tale begins with Bondfield, Susan Lawrence and Dorothy Jewson who were the first Labour women to win election to the House of Commons, in 1923.

She also opposed the war in Iraq and led a demonstration of «Labour Women Against War» in Cardiff city centre.

just what is it about labours women mps that make them so unpleasant, from beckett and hewett, to that queen of «bend and snap» caroline flint, they all have the ability to grate the nerves and annoy the sensibilities?

(Lury's study reports that Labour women overall did slightly better than the men in government jobs and promotion).

These include Labour Women's Network, all of the Labour Friends groups (such as Labour Friends of Israel and Labour Friends of India) and even TULO — the trade union and Labour party liaison organisation.

As chair of the women's parliamentary Labour party, she suggests there would «be an almighty revolt» because Galloway «has an ugly track record in opposing Labour women».

A number of senior Labour women described a «high level of disquiet» among colleagues over the event, planned for 14 March.

Now, she points to «a dramatic change in the nature of Conservative women MPs... These MPs are more modern, and people that we, as Labour women, can work cross-party with.»

The Labour website, inspired by the #metoo movement, was set up anonymously by six Labour women involved in the party at different levels and has the support of the chair of the women's parliamentary Labour party (PLP), Jess Phillips.

She is a former NUS Scotland Chair and current treasurer of Labour Women Network.

Is there something offputting about this constituency to ambitious Labour women?

Unlike a midwife who may be assigned several labouring women and whose focus in on physiological / medical birth issues, the doula's primary focus is on one woman and is undivided emotional support.

Angela Eagle has formally launched her bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, describing herself as «a strong Labour woman» who could heal divisions in the party and lead it to election victory.

Water births are becoming increasingly popular for labouring women.

My impression is that the vast majority of criticism has come from SNP / Yes campaign supporters eager to describe it as a problem for Labour, and to put prominent Labour women in the uncomfortable position of having to denounce his speech.

Quite rightly, Ridge says the great change came in the 1997 election when a mass of new Labour women MPs were elected, many of them as a consequence of all women short lists for selection.

If it is due to the way in which labour is managed in hospital, changes should be made to practices which compromise the safety of labouring women.

Donna Covey criticised those of the 101 Labour women MPs who might be supporting the proposal to cut benefits, saying that they had «no right to get elected on the back of women - only shortlists and then vote for anti-women policies».

Why does no one talk about the risk / pain / interruption of getting a labouring woman to hospital?

Hospitals are limited by their organisation and nature as to how they can cater to a labouring woman.

My understanding of one of the evidence based benefits of a doula came from studies which looked at «a woman known to the labouring woman» but not involved in her medical care being present for the labour reduced Caesarean section.

Transporting a labouring woman over MOUNTAINOUS terrain?

«From a practical perspective... a labouring woman needs to be protected from any sort of stimulation of her neocortex,» he states on his penultimate page.

I ended #WorldDoulaWeek the same way in which I started it; at a labouring woman's side.

Research has shown that the presence of a doula is extremely beneficial for the labouring woman.

She will use her skill and knowledge to help women avoid perineal tears, and use her clinical judgement to decide when a labouring woman should be left alone for a while (contractions tapering off at 2 am?

Caregivers may feel that it is difficult to access the labouring woman when she is in labour although some may argue that it is this reason that leads to less interventions during the birth process