Sentences with phrase «middle income women»

In her paper, Contextualizing online human milk sharing: Structural factors and lactation disparity among middle income women in the U.S for the journal Social Science & Medicine, Palmquist points out that women involved in online milk - sharing are largely middle class.

Lower - middle income women have felt similar coercion.

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Lunapads was already producing a line of reusable, sustainable menstrual pads made of soft, quick - drying fleece, targeted to middle - and upper - income women seeking to keep mountains of pads and tampons out of landfills.

Grace is a middle aged woman who writes about the challenges of saving for retirement and minimizing debt late in life, with a middle class income.

Woods» star was just so damn big it began to overwhelm the artificially - created barriers designed to keep very specific people — lower and middle incomes, minorities, women — out.

«Long gone are the days when the majority of middle - and upper - income women stayed home to raise families full time,» the authors wrote.

Some 62 % of the women were from high - income countries, 34 % from middle income countries and 4 % from low - income countries

The federally funded program is trying to increase awareness of breast - feeding among the low - to middle - income women it serves, she said.

I have since discovered that Insufficient Milk Syndrome is a predominantly Western phenomenon (in middle - class Swedish women, Sjölin, Hofvander, Hillervik, 1977; low - income European - American, African - American and Hispanic women in the United States, McCan, Baydar, & Williams, 2007).

All of the women in the study were classified as having middle - to upper - class financial income levels, having supportive partners, and in the care of obstetricians.

Although the IFPS II over sampled disadvantaged mothers (illiterate, non-English speaking, very low - income, very low education and without a stable home) compared to IFPS I, the results of our study may best describe practices of middle class American mothers rather than of disadvantaged American mothers [28]; thus, results can not be generalized to all women in the United States.

Approximately 35 % of Canadians in low - income households and 14 % in middle - income households experience some form of food insecurity.1 Since poor and malnourished women find it difficult to achieve adequate nutrition, their health is compromised during their reproductive years.

The Comment examines what is currently being done, and what should be done nationally and internationally to address nutritional and developmental needs of women and children in low - and middle - income countries.

As part of the study, researchers conducted interviews with mothers of infants from the Athens community, including 12 from the Athens branch of Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, which serves low - income mothers, and nine from Full Bloom Pregnancy and Early Parenting Center, which tends to serve middle income, highly educated mothers, Anderson said.

«So why are their changes to tax and benefits coming into force today hitting women harder than men and taking so much support from children, with families on low and middle incomes being hit the hardest of all?

But the point is if you go to Egypt, you go to South Africa, you go to Mexico, you go to a large number of low - and middle - income countries, countries you think of as very poor like Egypt or countries you think of kind of lower - middle income like South Africa or Mexico, what you find are two thirds or three fourths of the men and women in the countries are overweight and obese.

The team also concluded the finding about the relationship between NMPR and migration rates may also be gender sensitive since men are more likely to migrate than women and with few exceptions, low and middle income country women are more likely to follow their migrating husband than initiate it themselves.

«In low - and middle - income countries, it is generally impractical to screen for iron status, and most countries have policies for universal iron supplementation for pregnant women.

It is the most common cause of anemia during pregnancy, especially in low and middle income countries, affecting an estimated 32 million pregnant women globally in 2011.

«Given the substantial reduction in maternal mortality and the increase in the number of older women over the last 10 years, health systems in low - and middle - income countries must adjust accordingly, otherwise this trend will continue to increase,» said Dr John Beard, director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Ageing and Life Course and one of the authors of the study.

People who sell sex face a disproportionate risk and burden of HIV; in low - and middle - income countries, female sex workers have a 13.5 times greater chance of HIV infection than women in the general population.

Fifteen million unwanted pregnancies in 35 low - and middle - income countries could be avoided if women had access to and freedom to use contraception.

Middle - aged women providing care for elderly parents and in - laws are less likely to find suitable employment in later life that can fit around their commitments, which reduces their own future pension income and financial well - being in later life.

What's surprising is that half of the world's countries — including wealthy and growing middle - income nations — still struggle to extend quality care so that it reaches all women.

What is interesting though, is that this effect of income on expressing beliefs that are «middle of the road» is being driving predominantly by the behavior of women, and not men.

Of course, on any Russian dating site, there are women who are looking for a wealthy man, but still most of them will be happy to meet an honest, decent, responsible, loving, family - oriented, middle class man with an average, stable income.

That is a symptom of the fact that women are basically locked into secondary worker positions even at middle and higher income levels.

Featuring Ann Hirsch, Alison Veit, Débora Delmar, and Ryan Travis Christian, the exhibition comes accompanied by a text on a marketing strategy directed at a target customer called «Sydney» who represents a «middle - to - upper income woman who is well - educated, active, and appearance - conscious».

Until recently, there has been a lack of rigorous empirical evidence on the links between contraceptive access and women's economic empowerment in low - and middle - income countries.

While the unmet need for legal services affects virtually every person of low and middle income, it disproportionally affects women and racial minorities.

The concern for some low - and middle - income women is that any government funding cuts to Planned Parenthood will mean access to some forms of birth control will be cut off.

In fact, this amendment would create a two - tiered system that would punish women, particularly those with low and middle incomes, the very people this bill is intended to assist.

Yet evidence from the Fragile Families survey of 5,000 low - income couples who have just given birth to a child and ethnographic interviews conducted with low - income women in Philadelphia by Kathy Edin of Northwestern University provide convincing evidence that low - income people share the same normative commitment to marriage that middle - class families demonstrate.

Domestic violence among the low income couples who would be targeted for the healthy marriage initiative is very rare.In fact, only 2 percent experience domestic violence.Critics of the healthy marriage initiative often cite statistics showing that a high percent of middle - aged welfare mothers have suffered domestic violence at some point in the past.These figures are irrelevant for two reasons.First, the healthy marriage initiative will focus on younger women around the time of a child's birth, not older mothers with a long history of welfare dependence.The domestic violence rates are very different for these two groups.Second, the fact a woman has experienced domestic violence in the past does not mean she is experiencing violence in a current relationship, or that most prior relationships have involved violence.

As NRDC acquired Lord & Taylor about three years after Macy's merged with Federated Department Stores and became more geared toward middle - income consumers, Lord & Taylor executives saw an opportunity to become the leading department store player for slightly more upscale, classic department store customer — the suburban woman.

Real estate, to which I owe a great deal and have given a lifetime commitment, is usually a second or third career path, taken by middle - aged men and women, adult learners with short - term goals of supplementary income.

It uses as illustrations a single, first - time homebuyer (a woman buying a condo) and a middle - income family of five buying a home, concluding flatly: «What happened is that the new law is taking away most of the tax benefits of owning a home.»