Sentences with phrase «new labour women»

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

Not exact matches

The fiscal plan tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons was packed with billions of dollars worth of new investments, including measures to increase the labour - force participation of women.
Roberts cites an observation by labour historian Jan Kainer: «Women's labour organizing contributed significantly to the building and sustaining of rank - and - file participation, developing new democratic structures such as women's caucuses, organizing the unorganized, and forging political alliances with non-labour groups.&rWomen's labour organizing contributed significantly to the building and sustaining of rank - and - file participation, developing new democratic structures such as women's caucuses, organizing the unorganized, and forging political alliances with non-labour groups.&rwomen's caucuses, organizing the unorganized, and forging political alliances with non-labour groups.»
«This new legislation is part of our overall commitment to fairness in Ontario's workplaces and will help ensure that women and other groups are treated equitably,» said Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn.
Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.
Dr. Shah's article stems from the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) new set of guidelines, published in December 2014, which offer evidence - based advice for the care of pregnant women and babies during labour and immediately after birth.
A new WHO guideline, launched today, contains 56 evidence - based recommendations detailing both the clinical and non-clinical care that is needed throughout labour and immediately afterwards for women and for newborns.
The New Zealand College of Midwives (Inc) supports warm water immersion for women during labour as a method of pain management.
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.
From 1914 to the late 1960 «s, the new fad in pain relief in childbirth was «twilight sleep», or scopolamine & morphine, whereby a woman was rendered completely immobile and / or semi-conscious in labour and childbirth.
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.
She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.
Rubbish most of the real left not the new Labour kind, do not mind if two men two women want to get married, have children, live a life together, it makes no difference.
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).
«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.
In 1998 Harman headed up New Labour's controversial cut to single parent benefit despite the majority of those affected being women.
This was particularly important in the context of the failure of the majority of Labour's new women MPs to represent women's interests — and the divisive use to which this was put by the government.
At the carefully stage - managed Labour women's training conference in mid-July, defence of the proposals by Baroness Hollis and new Labour MP and ex-NUS president Lorna Fitzsimons as not pleasant but «necessary» contrasted with a well attended and heated Labour Women's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent benewomen's training conference in mid-July, defence of the proposals by Baroness Hollis and new Labour MP and ex-NUS president Lorna Fitzsimons as not pleasant but «necessary» contrasted with a well attended and heated Labour Women's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent beneWomen's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent benefits.
No doubt the blokey, even bullying atmosphere under New Labour played a part in freezing out talented women in particular; but if this process is not about closing the chapter on Brown and Blair, it is nothing.
But a new Ipsos Mori survey for Mumsnet this week showed that only 29 per cent of women support the Tories, compared to a figure for Labour of 42 per cent» — Melissa Kite, Daily Mail David Cameron: we must preserve the memory of the Holocaust - Daily Telegraph
Burnham was criticised for jokingly saying that Labour should have a woman leader «when the time is right», with the New Statesman saying that he had «tripped over his mouth again».
In her new book, the Labour MP describe her experience of growing up in Birmingham in a radical socialist family, the «trials» of her teenage and student years — and «what it means to be a woman today».
In A Woman's Work, Britain's longest - serving female MP Harriet Harman offers a new memoir reflecting on her experience of high - level politics and the recent history of the Labour Party from the late 1970s to the present.
When asked about whether the Conservatives should match Labour's «big strides» on increasing women's representation through all - women shortlists, Morgan - in her first comments on the issue since taking on her new job - did not rule the option out.
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.
But could Labour have a new rival on its hands when it comes to standing up for womens rights?
On the specific issue of «window dressing», the increased role of women in New Labour seems to me correlated not with some kind of feminist victory within what's left of the historical Labour Party (that, I think, is a myth unfortunately) but rather with the growth of «affective labour» in the workLabour seems to me correlated not with some kind of feminist victory within what's left of the historical Labour Party (that, I think, is a myth unfortunately) but rather with the growth of «affective labour» in the workLabour Party (that, I think, is a myth unfortunately) but rather with the growth of «affective labour» in the worklabour» in the workplace.
Lady Royall, the Labour leader of the Lords, has said that the fact that Lady Stowell, the new leader of the Lords, does not sit in the cabinet (see 2.41 pm) amounts to a snub to women.
Members of Labour's shadow cabinet have praised Barking and Dagenham Council for a scheme which involves naming new roads after service men and women killed in action.
Diane Abbott's presence in the race electrifies the contest not because she is a black woman (though that is not unimportant) but because she has held a very different position on a number of key policies from the New Labour government of which the four men were members.
And Labour and the Conservatives each get one of the new committees — Labour take on Petitions and the Conservatives Women and Equalities.
«We particularly welcome the fact that the parties are turning to women to lead the way, with two new party leaders in Harriet Harman for Labour and Suzanne Evans for Ukip.
«At least we do not have fear or forced labour like inside [Myanmar] but I worry about the new generation and do not want to have babies with the situation like this,» said one woman, 27 years old, who was recently married (Anon.
I'm interested in how these CGI objects of women might be able to form different and speculative ideas towards our own bodies and create new relationships to labour, particularly female forms of labour and how we might perform as workers.
The new birthing centre in Toronto, for example, allows Indigenous women to include smudging ceremonies, sacred songs, and drumming circles into their labours.
On Monday, Garnett's procrastination surfaced as a background issue at a New Brunswick Labour and Employment Board hearing into the demotion of women's hockey as a varsity sport at UNB.
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