Sentences with phrase «of women candidates»

But there are fears that the party is falling behind in the selection of women candidates in parliamentary seats.

So the selection of women candidates by parties is of vital importance.

With male candidates overwhelmingly represented in races across the board, there has been a push to ensure the success of women candidates.

Jennifer Hudson, co-author of the UCL / Birkbeck Parliamentary Candidates UK Project, said: «The parties» efforts in increasing the number of women candidates selected has paid off — there are now more women MPs in parliament than ever before.

They note that the steadily growing pool of women candidates in all disciplines outpaces Harvard's hiring.

The Liberals saw a decrease of women candidates nominated in the 2012 election, down to 18 of 87 (20 %) from 22 of 83 in 2008 (26 %).

The NDP, with a commitment to nominate a high percentage of women candidates, has so far chosen the most women candidates of the political parties contesting the 2015 election.

Following the imposition of a woman candidate in my area for the recent parliamentary elections, I believed the Labour Party was making a big mistake which eventually cost them the seat.

Margot James was one of the women candidates worthy of being highlighted as outstanding activist.

Whether incessantly fundraising, or building a network of women candidates in her «off the sidelines» campaign — Kirsten Gillibrand's agenda is national in scope and ambition.

With selections now having taken place in the vast majority of winnable seats, the proportion of women candidates is as -LSB-...]

«My ability and position as county chair, I've always been very supportive of women candidates and appointments and recommendations and things like that.

That wave of women candidates has sent the share of candidates who are women skyrocketing... to 22 percent.

Based on the true story of a Ugandan schoolgirl (Phiona Mutesi) who rose to the ranks of Woman Candidate Master in the world of chess, Disney will be aiming at our heartstrings with this inspiring tale.

Yet while Britain's First Past the Post acts against the representation of women, the fact that the number of women candidates is going up and that the ERS are able to project a rise in women does show that parties can move forwards in this area.

Their plan is not to force more hires but rather to meet with department chairs to create a strategy for increasing the pool of women candidates in each discipline, starting with chemistry and the two biology departments.

Indonesia obliges political parties to have at least 30 % of women candidates in their legislative candidates list.

One reason the Coalition has been slow to adopt candidate quotas or non-quota means of increasing the number of women candidates is lack of pressure from their voters.

One way this is being done is through introducing legislative quotas that require all political parties to increase the number of women candidates.

In Bernard's letter he notes that increasing the number of women candidates has been achieved without «compromising the right of constituency associations to make the ultimate choice about who shall be their candidate.»

The early editions of the newspapers are online (see Times and Guardian) and they contain details of David Cameron's tough new measures to increase the number of women candidates.

Modernising the party, increasing the number of women candidates, leading the debate on the greening of British politics, making clear our commitment to the NHS and state education, challenging Labour over the need to tackle entrenched poverty — these were all important steps forward for the Conservative Party in 2006.