Sentences with phrase «of votes for women»

It also provides an opportunity to reflect on the changing social, economic and political conditions that affected women's lives and work over the last century — which is rather fitting as we approach the centenary in 2018 of votes for women.»

In 1903 she founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organization committed to activism to promote the cause of votes for women.

Completely up to date to celebrate the 100 years of votes for women in 2018.

Gillibrand, who has spent the week in the Adirondack Park, received a whirlwind tour of the facility's «Adirondack Suffragists: 100 Years of Votes for Women» exhibit curated by Margaret Bartley and Gerald Zahavi, both of Elizabethtown.

To celebrate 2018's centenary of the vote for women, we're delighted to present the second event of our three - part series on the subject of «Art & Feminism».

Not exact matches

And for those of you keeping score at home, women got the the right to vote 97 years ago.

In the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructure.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

Yet millions of women voted for him anyway.

«Since 1920, women have sort of been fighting to make the vote real,» says Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (Iwomen have sort of been fighting to make the vote real,» says Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWomen's Policy Research (IWPR).

The Amendment is a vitally important one for the female half of the country's population: It gave (some) women the right to vote.

For example, if one of the areas you want to say you have experienced and impacted within the time - frame you have chosen is around U.S. voting numbers, you would probably want to have worked with your local representative's office or powerful and politically influential organizations such as the League of Women Voters or AARP.

I'm not a conservative myself, but I'm reckoning there are a lot of conservative women out there who are disgusted by the PC use of Redford as an all - purpose witch and who might vote for Danielle Smith in protest of it.

In a shot across the bows for a number of companies, LGIM said it would vote against British companies where women did not represent at least a quarter of the board, and wanted a full breakdown of any gender pay gap and plans to close it.

LONDON AXA Investment Managers will vote in protest against companies which do not explain how they will boost the number of women on their boards, joining growing demands for workplace diversity.

He fought for racial equality and voting rights, for fair wages and the reproductive rights of women.

One of my outside vendors told me that women get what they deserve based on who they vote for.

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

You go ahead and keep the tradition of intolerance and lack of community, I am going to vote for the man or woman who can make a difference because they know what they are doing and not because they have a belief I don't agree with.

Many of those most affected by the decision were excluded from the vote, for only 230 of the 2,644 delegates (8.7 percent) were women.

It was precisely because of their deeply cherished faith that women were compelled to organize for the vote, for women to be declared persons under the law, for the rights of workers, for women to wear pants, for temperance even (because the victims of drunkenness were usually women and children), and so on.

Whether one voted for the Liberal Party of not, Canadians were thrilled to see a cabinet that reflected a fuller picture of who we are — First Nations, immigrants and born - and - raised Canadians, men and women, regional representation, gay and straight, Christian and Sikh and atheist and Muslim among other religions, differently abled, different socio - economic stories, and so on.

Perhaps that is why our country was founded on the principle of women not being allowed to vote for their own president, they didn't have as much going on up in their heads as men.

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

At the end of the day, women, Catholic or not, are not going to vote for someone who is interested in sending them back to the 17th century so no, I don't believe Obama is going to lose the Catholic vote unless they didn't vote for him the last time.

How about placing all of these ignorant hateful bigot preachers behind an electrical fence and wait for them to die off... they steal money from dumb parishioners, abuse the little boys in the church, discriminate women, tell you how to vote for their own best interest, and worst of all spew prejudice, hateful ideology from the pulpit all in the name of JESUS.

It implies the rejection of civil rights for blacks, votes for women, the abolition of slavery, the abolition of property requirements for voting; it implies the rejection of the whole historical march against arbitrary difference and power.

We are called to be light and salt, and one way to do this is to stand up and speak out FOR BIBLICAL VALUES and against sin... yes, of course we should be preaching / teaching / living God's «theology of marriage» in our own marriages...... but God has clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and therefore, when our government says it's otherwise, we should be light and salt and speak up, and vote accordingly.

Also, as any written law implies, those who voted for men and women who touted this God of the bible as being true are guilty even if not premeditated.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

The day that Islam advocates all freedom for all women I will have no problem with more Mosques, in the meantime, because this belief / Creed / Religion as it is now (and has been over thousands of years under the world's noses) women are still not allowed to vote, women are not doctors, they do not study to become lawyers, owners of companies, presidents of countries.

Answer is quite easy (at least for THIS Conservative Christan Catholic Republican woman): vote for Mitt and beat the political daylights out of that lying Marxist sitting in the Oval Office right now.

Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see folks waiting to vote in the heat of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot of us have become.

To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

And it is this NT scriptural support for the discrimination of women that helped to deny women the right to vote in this country until 1920.

The Guardian: Church of England prepares for vote on female bishops On the evening of 11 November 1992, Rosie Harper was a professional opera singer listening to the radio and absorbing the news that the Church of England, after years of struggle and indecision, had decided to allow women to become priests.

You must be mistaken... why, the conservatives HAD to be at the forefront of assuring the rights of freed slaves, ending the deliberate government policy of destroying native cultures, extending the vote to ex-slaves and women, ending child labor, creating safer and better working conditions for laborers, etc?

For example, among traditionalist evangelicals, men gave 85 percent of their vote to Dole, compared with 64 percent for women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectiveFor example, among traditionalist evangelicals, men gave 85 percent of their vote to Dole, compared with 64 percent for women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectivefor women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectivefor traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectively.

But my hope is that every Christian who has decided to vote for Trump has, at some point, spoken out against his comments regarding sexual assault, immigrants, women, and additional issues that defile all people who are made in the image of God.

For most of histoyr men have thought women shouldn't be educated and that they shouldn't be allowed to vote and we're still on the tail end of that in both church and state.

It is a commonplace among scholars of the Women's movement that the 19th century struggle for women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cWomen's movement that the 19th century struggle for women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cwomen's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cwomen's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cause.

For years her denomination published a periodical, Women's Chains, which fought for the right to vote, advocated total participation of women in society (including Congress and the White House), and suggested imprisonment for the inventors of the high - heeled shFor years her denomination published a periodical, Women's Chains, which fought for the right to vote, advocated total participation of women in society (including Congress and the White House), and suggested imprisonment for the inventors of the high - heeled Women's Chains, which fought for the right to vote, advocated total participation of women in society (including Congress and the White House), and suggested imprisonment for the inventors of the high - heeled shfor the right to vote, advocated total participation of women in society (including Congress and the White House), and suggested imprisonment for the inventors of the high - heeled women in society (including Congress and the White House), and suggested imprisonment for the inventors of the high - heeled shfor the inventors of the high - heeled shoe.

I'm on the right, and while I certainly don't feel hate towards this woman, it is clear that she is just a token black for Romney to try and get some of the black vote, which he has about 0 % of at the moment.

The more involved white evangelicals are with their churches, the more likely they voted for Trump, with women who attend church more than once a week showing slightly higher level of support (87.5 %) than men (85 %).

In last year's election, 73 percent of white evangelical women under 35 voted for Trump compared to 60 percent of white evangelical men of the same age.

«Painful irony of pro-choice stance of Women's March is that abortion was likely THE issue to tip scales for evangelical women to vote Trump,» said Hannah Anderson, who writes and podcasts about gender and theology for Christ and Pop CulWomen's March is that abortion was likely THE issue to tip scales for evangelical women to vote Trump,» said Hannah Anderson, who writes and podcasts about gender and theology for Christ and Pop Culwomen to vote Trump,» said Hannah Anderson, who writes and podcasts about gender and theology for Christ and Pop Culture.

Black women (who made up 6 % of the electorate) were even more supportive, telling exit pollsters they voted for the measure by a 3 - to - 1 margin.

69 % of Catholic men believe their household is voting for the same candidate 76 % of Catholic women believe likewise [Pew Research Center # 7]

78 % of Protestant men believe their household is voting for the same presidential candidate 66 % of Protestant women believe likewise