Sentences with phrase «more labour women»

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

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He'd like to increase military spending, sign free trade deals with other Asian countries, make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, change immigration laws, get more women in the labour force and much more.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

Combined with women, he said assisting more young people, Indigenous peoples, recent immigrants and Canadians living with disabilities to enter the job market could help the labour force expand by half a million people.

Much of the gains over the past decades can be attributed to gains made by women in the labour force: more women are working, and they are earning more.

A little more to ad, the labour of women is largely undervalued (because women are I suppose), so whether or not we want to apply «hero» they are certainly undervalued, and under - appreciated for the successes, their unpaid and unrecognised labour etc..

There were more unemployed women over the past five years than at any time under the previous Labour Government, and real wages for women have fallen year on year since 2010.

They don't allow VBACs, they don't take women with gestational diabetes or pre-existing medical problems, they transfer women with breech babies to hospital care before labour begins and they don't take women who are carrying more than one baby.

«If a woman is relaxed during her nine months, then she's much more likely to have an easier labour.»

Women who planned to give birth in a birth centre or at home were significantly more likely to have a normal labour and birth compared with women in the labour ward gWomen who planned to give birth in a birth centre or at home were significantly more likely to have a normal labour and birth compared with women in the labour ward gwomen in the labour ward group.

Among 64 538 low - risk women, of whom more than 16 000 planned a homebirth at the onset of labour, no difference was found in the adjusted odds between obstetric units and other birthplaces, including homebirth.

Women who received IV fluids during labour had higher levels of edema postpartum and rated their breasts as firmer as and more tender than women who did not receive IV flWomen who received IV fluids during labour had higher levels of edema postpartum and rated their breasts as firmer as and more tender than women who did not receive IV flwomen who did not receive IV fluids.

If a woman declines vaginal exams in labour, this is likely to make things a lot easier and more enjoyable for her, but have the opposite effect for her carers.

When I did query what was going on (having unfortunately gone along with some the bonkers instructions because it tallied slightly with what I had read — don't try and get a woman who has been in labour all night, is exhausted and wants to sleep to walk down a corridor lads, it sounds stupid and it is stupid) I was asked to move to the end of the room (the implication being I would be asked to leave if I asked any more questions).

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

Nearly a third of women who planned and started their labours at home ended up being transferred as complications arose — including for instance an abnormal fetal heart rate, or if the mother required more effective pain relief in the form of an epidural.

In addition, women were more likely to be cared for in labour by midwives they already knew.

Women who had midwife - led continuity models of care were more likely to experience no intrapartum analgesia / anaesthesia (average RR 1.21, 95 % CI 1.06 to 1.37; participants = 10,499; studies = seven), have a longer mean length of labour (hours)(mean difference (MD) 0.50, 95 % CI 0.27 to 0.74; participants = 3328; studies = three) and more likely to be attended at birth by a known midwife (average RR 7.04, 95 % CI 4.48 to 11.08; participants = 6917; studies = seven).

Women in the hospital group were more likely to have interventions such as labour augmentation, assisted vaginal births or cesarean deliveries.

A randomised control trial conducted in BC [30] found home visits in early labour to be more effective than telephone triage in reducing the number of women attending the hospital for assessment before they are in labour and those attending before 3 cm cervical dilation, although the home visits had no impact on CS rates or birth outcomes.

A systematic review of 22 studies [40] found women who had continuous support in labour (either from a nurse, midwife, doula, childbirth educator, family member, partner, or stranger) were more likely to have a spontaneous vaginal birth, a shorter birth, and to be satisfied with their birth.

Women who feel more in control in the reading I have done relate it to things like ambulatory ability, acceptability of vocalising their pain, social control (i.e. who is present at the birth), environmental control and comfort — leading them to feel more mentally able to cope with labour and being more in control of themselves which is often highlighted as a definer of a good birth experience.

A Cochrane review found that: «Women who used epidurals were more likely to have a longer delivery (second stage of labour), needed their labour contractions stimulated with oxytocin, experienced very low blood pressure, were unable to move for a period of time after the birth (motor blockage), had problems passing urine (fluid retention) and suffered fever and association between epidural analgesia and instrumental birth.»

A study by Hildingsson et al. (2011) found that labour induction was associated with a less positive birth experience, and women who were induced were more likely to be frightened that their baby would be damaged during birth.

Hiring a house in order to be in the catchment for DOMINO homebirth, asking for a new health care professional in labour, changing hospitals, challenging policy — women are becoming more proactive in their approach of navigating the system in order to ensure that they get the most out of their maternity care and have a healthy positive birth experience.

Equally important is the need to change attitudes to birth so that women are encouraged to play a more active part in the birth of their babies instead of being subjected to clinical interventions designed to mitigate the adverse effects of labouring in a starkly unnatural environment.

The book concludes by introducing a new birth chair designed around women's need for physical support in the hospital delivery room, during labour as well as for the birth, a design that will encourage women to adopt a more positive upright attitude to bringing their babies into the world.

From the 1970s, Harriet campaigned for increased women's representation in the Labour Party - more women Labour councillors, more women Labour MPs and for a Labour leadership team of three of which at least one should be a woman.

«It is simply not good enough that forty years after the Equal Pay Act women still don't earn equal pay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero said.

Therefore New Labour needs to talk less about clever theoretical things such as policy (because women have very small brains) and appeal rather more to their hearts (because women, though dumb as toast, do have very large hearts).

I'm also intrigued by the fact that you essentially finish up with a plea to Labour to spin to women more effectively.

«Jeremy is owed a debt of gratitude for helping Labour to rediscover its radical routes, but we do need a new generation of Labour men and women to take this party forward, to get us ready for government once more.

Moreover, some policies in the Labour manifesto may have been particularly appealing to young women — for example the party's plans for more free childcare.

Coverage of recent polls has suggested that women are becoming more supportive of Labour and that this is driving the recent tightening of the election race.

However it is undeniable that the scheme in the Labour Party has increased the number of women MPs and done some good to make Labour more representative of women.

Compared with the start of May, women are now 7 points more likely to vote Labour than men, and 3 points less likely to vote Conservative.

Alongside a national system of good quality childcare to help more women into the labour market

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.

Referring to events at the Church of England synod, Ian Lucas, Labour MP for Wrexham, noted that the bishops» privilege was «even more inexplicable on this day when the Church of England has decided not to appoint women bishops.»

The big strides made in securing more women Labour MPs have also, unfortunately, been paralleled by a decline in those from working - class backgrounds.

Ms Cooper is rated the most likely candidate to increase Labour's chances by more women (22 per cent) than men (19 per cent).

Labour is more willing than the other parties to embrace special measures for achieving equality, including the Equality Act and the use of all - women shortlists.

Gloria De Piero MP, Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, responding to the lifting of Lord Rennard's suspension, said: «Nick Clegg has sent a clear message to women voters — he is more interested in trying to salvage the Lib Dems» fading election hopes than do the right thing by the women who made these serious complaints.

The Tories and Lib Dems are both offering more mental health support to women during and after pregnancy, while Labour promise 3000 more midwives.

Meanwhile, Labour and the Lib Dems are also offering more support for carers, the majority of whom are women.

The Labour deputy leader will use a roundtable event in parliament to call for more steps to even up the gender gap between men and women on our television screens.

Cooper also admitted that increasing representation in Parliament is a «long journey» and championed Labour's use of a women's shortlist to promote more women into Parliament in 1997.

I would estimate that there are not more than a half a dozen people in the country outside Parliament who would have the AWS / notAWS distinction in their heads if offered a list of say 20 1997 Labour women and asked to sort 10 in each category.

Alongside that troop of northerners yet to appear, we were told this would be an opportunity for both David Cameron and Ed Miliband to promote more women — the PM because he's pledged to get a third of government posts filled by female politicians by 2015 (and the number of women in cabinet fell last time), the Labour leader because, well, he's got loads of good ones.

The letter has already been signed by 23 members of the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and is expected to attract more signatories before being sent to the leader today.