Sentences with phrase «many cultural barriers»

If we're going to make progress in gender equity in science, technology, math, and engineering, we need to dive in — frankly and honestly — to the cultural barriers that stand in the way.

It is time to tackle these issues — and a host of other cultural barriers to progress — head on, and I have faith in the mission of the Biden Cancer Initiative to do that.

It can be an especially good marketing tool for companies that participate in international trade, because sponsorship transcends language and cultural barriers.

A cultural barrier that Mattel and Alibaba will need to overcome is that when parents do have extra money to spend on their kids, they prefer to put it toward educational pursuits.

Despite ample export ventures, companies may still shy away because of language and cultural barriers.

Higher crime rates and more visible cultural barriers made it a tougher sell.

Language is a really good way to bridge the cultural barrier, but particularly in the Middle East it can feel quite non-semantical.

«Technologies have broken down geographic and cultural barriers, connecting people and businesses in real time,» Bradford's PowerPoint stated.

For triple jumpers, the traditional hurdles of academics, networking, and job hunting are compounded by language, visa, and cultural barriers.

Canada is expected to have a comparative advantage in the implementation of an export assistance service to address linguistic and cultural barriers to exporting.

Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

The development of an international communications strategy (i.e., «a set of procedures for dealing with language and cultural barriers as they arise») could assist Canadian SMEs to establish a presence in markets that do not use English and French but in which the potential for rapid export growth exists.

However, lacking professional translators and the cultural barrier made it an uneasy task.

I love that learning another language can help break down cultural barriers and make the world a little bit smaller.

First, he offers radical acceptance of the individual, often by breaking cultural barriers.

The death and resurrection of Jesus has broken down cultural barriers throughout history — no other major religion has spread as far and across as many cultures as Christianity.

Thus they will be persuasive purveyors of the good news («to overcome cultural barriers and conflicts») to barbarians in Spain.

Although Catholics had ranked as the nation's largest religious denomination since 1890, social, linguistic, educational, and cultural barriers slowed their literary development.

Feeling «caged in» was an entirely appropriate sensation while viewing the images of people who had themselves faced all kinds of physical and cultural barriers in their flight from conflict.

Perhaps Bach, transcending cultural barriers, has converted more Japanese than any of us dares to imagine.

The problem for the young ministers, first of all, was to establish some kind of communication with East Harlem, to overcome the cultural barriers and get to know people at the level of our common humanity where the genuine religious issues arise.

They speak to them in their own languages, with cultural barriers down, differences transcended.

Several of you concluded that the best way to apply this teaching to our day and culture is to encourage women to dress modestly and avoid wearing fancy, expensive clothes that might create cultural barriers between themselves and others in the church or community.

Yet the very technology which crosses cultural barriers also allows new forms of oppression to flourish.

Gender blindness is not yet sweeping across America, but if one little boy in Pennsylvania can leap the cultural barrier, perhaps in some rosy, not too distant future, the rest of the country will follow his example.

Of the many things that I adore about this post (and there are MANY), one that specifically stands out to me is this: when we identify the problem externally and not internally — when we make the issue about systematic and institutional and cultural barriers to breastfeeding and not individual decisions not to breastfeed — then we help to focus the problem away from moms vs. moms.

Mothers also mention concerns about remaining independent, dividing care equally with the father, and reluctance to feed in public, proving that many social and cultural barriers still exist.

This study highlights that there are additional barriers for Asian fathers such as language problems, long unsocial working hours, supporting dependant elderly relatives in Pakistan and cultural barriers such as the mixing of unrelated men and women.

Speakers include: Laura Abbott, University of Hertfordshire — Having a baby in prison: women's need to love, care and breastfeed their baby Dr Amy Brown, Associate Professor Child Public Health, Swansea University - Examining psychological, social and cultural barriers to responsive breastfeeding Helen Crawley, First Steps Nutrition Trust - The constituents of formula milk: busting the myths.

Unique cultural barriers among black women: While many of the «booby traps» ™ to breastfeeding are universal, Black women also have unique cultural barriers and a complex history connected to breastfeeding.

Public health campaigns that focus on increasing the social acceptability of breast - feeding may prove effective in addressing this cultural barrier.

As highlighted in WBTi's Indicator 7 (communication and information) which calls for a national communications strategy around infant feeding, and for promotional activities including World Breastfeeding Week, we are directly exploring new ways to use communication strategies, that are women - led, to address the cultural barriers to breastfeeding in the UK, through an inclusive social media campaign.

The top five reasons a Black Breastfeeding Week is needed are: 1) The high black infant mortality rate; 2) High rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4) Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communities.

Three ground - breaking pieces of research funded by the Gates Foundation highlight the practical, emotional and cultural barriers that still stand in the way of women breastfeeding and underline the importance of breastfeeding in improving health, saving lives and reducing costs in every country in the world, rich or poor.

My hope for the new forum is that it will bring Asian businesswomen together to not only share mutual experiences but also provide mentoring to budding Asian female entrepreneurs, in order to overcome the significant financial and cultural barriers that currently exist.

He said it was obviously really important for migrants to learn English but, equally, there were cultural barriers that sometimes had to be broken down first.

Navigating the language and cultural barriers has been an enjoyable adventure.

There are also intellectual and cultural barriers.

«The institution must be willing to recognize the value of developing practical means to removing social and cultural barriers,» says Gregory Aponte, a professor in the Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology and director of the new center.

«He always keeps an eye out for each of his students,» and with him, «there is no cultural barrier,» says Chowell - Puente, who also credits his adviser for his improved writing and critical thinking skills.

It should be recognized that our reward systems are not completely in place, that there are cultural barriers that are working against individuals who are doing something new, and so it's not for the timid people,» Blockstein says.

Immigrant students facing language and cultural barriers are another part of the mix, adds Paris Svoronos, chair of the chemistry department at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, New York.

«Prior to that, there were institutional and cultural barriers.

The challenge for the scientific community is to improve cooperation and knowledge sharing across geographical and cultural barriers, but also between practitioners and academics.

Cultural barriers pertaining to neonatal mortality should be addressed.

There are cultural barriers.

But as Fenton and colleagues point out, there remain «massive cultural barriers between the fields of science and law» that «will only be broken down by achieving a critical mass of relevant experts and stakeholders, united in their objectives.»

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Meanwhile, other studies have found that language differences restricted gene flow in recent times in Europe, suggesting that cultural barriers might have limited genetic diversity more consistently than occasional local bottlenecks.

Economic and cultural barriers initially kept many Americans off the Internet, but the latest UCLA Internet Report shows the situation has changed.