Sentences with phrase «of women elected»

This election has seen a record number of women elected but we're still nowhere near equality, women...

Things got more personal in 1999 when the European Technology Assessment Network published a table placing the Netherlands last in the percentage of women elected to more than 30 national academies of science worldwide: A dismal 0.4 % of the Dutch Royal Academy's fellows, one out of 237, was a woman (4).

There is an effort — 21 in»21 — underway being spearheaded by former Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and others to see a wave of women elected to the Council through the next city elections, in 2021.

In my opinion the best way of getting more women into parliament is by implementing proportional representation http://www.tinyurl.com/Proportional-Rep The way we vote can and does influence the number of women elected into parliament.

But there will undoubtedly be some progress; the Electoral Reform Society predict that the proportion of women elected will rise to 29.5 % — still low, but a seven percentage point increase on current levels.

So does the number of women elected or appointed to positions of responsibility within Parliament, whether as Cabinet members, shadow ministers or select committee chairs.

Gillibrand, a national leader in the push to elect more women, praised the efforts of 21 in» 21, making the point that in order for more women to get elected on the federal level it is imperative for there to be a pipeline of women elected officials at the local level.

Some have attributed an increase in the number of women elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1992 — which came to be known as «The Year of the Woman» — to televised images of Hill being questioned by an all - male panel about sexual harassment, something so many women knew on a personal level.

, calls on political parties to take «positive action» to ensure the number of women elected to parliament increases.

The proportion of women elected to parliament in the UK remains low compared to other countries.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A group of women elected officials on Monday called for immediate action on the New York City bill that would require sick days for all those employed in New York City.

Not exact matches

... Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?»

Leroux's list of accomplishments is impressive — she's the first woman elected chair and the first one to hold the title of president and CEO at her company.

Voters in a southeast Texas county elected a black, Democratic woman as sheriff while choosing Republican Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, an unusual result in a year of partisan acrimony.

A women's march was being organized in Washington, the teenager wrote, to protest the incoming administration of President - elect Donald J. Trump and to speak up for gender equality.

In 1997, she became mayor of Maribyrnong, a suburb of Melbourne, becoming the first Vietnamese woman to be elected mayor anywhere outside of Vietnam.

So it may come as no surprise that the top five highest - earning elected women serving in governments worldwide, as surveyed by British financial service firm IG Group, coincidentally happen to earn less than their elected male counterparts in an all - gender list of of elected, appointed and lifetime world leaders.

Landrieu was a Delta Gamma at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge before becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Louisiana's House of Representatives at age 23.

At our congress of elected officers in 2013, the question was, «What should we do to advance women as elected officers and board members of the caisse?»

Emanuel, 51, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, is competing against rivals who include two Hispanics — Gery Chico, a former Daley chief of staff, and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — and Carol Moseley Braun, who was the first black woman elected to the Senate.

At The Vancouver Board of Trade's 128th AGM, incoming Chair Tim Manning announced an unprecedented decision to elect more women than men to the board of directors — something that has not happened before in the organization's history.

After all, the Liberals» 2017 began with Trudeau dropping Maryam Monsef from Democratic Reform and into Status of Women, on the way to breaking his promise to change the way Canadians elect MPs.

On January 12, the president - elect announced that Powell would get a White House job as senior counselor for economic initiatives, saying she would focus on «entrepreneurship, small business growth, and the global economic empowerment of women.»

«We are proud to have Pamela Prince - Eason bring her distinctive knowledge and experience spanning procurement, women's business leadership and non-profit organizations,» said Laura Taylor, newly elected Chair of WBENC's Board of Directors.

Velázquez, a Democrat from New York, is the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to Congress, and she was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011.

McDougal's comments, and Farrow's story, may or may not have any effect on a president who was elected after bragging about his ability to grab women «by the pussy,» and after being publicly accused of sexual misconduct by numerous women.

Funny how Toby et al consider a picture or sculpture of a naked woman an obscenity and their elected officials cover even «blind justice» statues, but they think that a PAID SALESMAN of a dead religion tormenting a dying nonbeliever deserves no rebuke or prohibition.

The thing that makes me uneasy about having elected officails from certain religious groups is that, being female, I'm not sure a person who suscribes to a set of beliefs that does not permit a woman to occupy the highest leadership posts in the organization is going to promote policies in my best interests.

Unquestionably the issues raised are of far more fundamental theological and religious importance than cleaning up sexist language and electing women bishops, important as those achievements are.

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

The separation between church and state is slowly being dissolved, an atheist will NEVER be elected president, Christians believe that a woman should not be able to make decisions about her own body, religion is responsible for untold amounts of hate, violence, and bigotry.

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

If he can just get those of the weak and thoughtless minds to concentrate on gay people and not on his distorted unemployment statistics, pay - offs to his union buddies, economy collapsing debt, bullying of the American businessman / woman, ever - lavish spending wife (our money, not theirs), and a debacle of a healthcare plan, then maybe, maybe he might just get elected again so that he can do even more damage than he has already wrought.

Two «seed «in «the «Spirit predestinarian Baptists claimed that Christ and his elect ones were born of the pure seed of the woman, while the non «elect reprobates were doomed because they had within them the seed of the serpent.

EPC requires all churches to hold to «essential» tenets of the Christian faith, but allows each congregation freedom in forming opinions on «nonessential» matters, such as whether women can be elected as deacons and elders.

Give it 20 more years, and the idea of someone being elected that plays upon the LGBT «Question» will be looked at the same as someone campaigning on the basis that women should not show their ankles or elbows in public.

The mode of election whereby God appoints individuals to their lifework is seen as not different in character from the mode whereby he elects them to serve him as men or women, as American or Asian, as first - or twentieth - century men.

However, one of the newly elected women elders volunteered to bring Mary to church.

I have also remembered former students at Judson College, Alfred University, the University of Georgia, Wesleyan University in Middletown (in a gratifying interim), the hundreds of men in Yale College who elected Religion 21 a in the decade of the fifties and the more than a thousand men and women at Yale Divinity School who have had no choice.

There are too many denominations but when I think of the church as «the people» and with that as individual voters, elected officals and general workers I see folks bringing their Faith into their decision making as much as a woman brings her life experiacnes into her job.

SBAL, which works to elect pro-life women to office, typically supports pro-life members of both parties.

If she is indeed a woman of faith that believes God's hand is in everything that happens for this country (as if God may have a favorite country), then it follows logically that she accepts that God knew it was best for America to elect Barack Obama.

(10) While this «Position paper» (and others since issued) does not hold the constitutional status of the Statement of Fundamental Truths approved by the AGs highest body, the biennial General Council in session (typically four to nine thousand voters), the paper does bear the approval of the (roughly two hundred man - no women) General and Executive Presbyteries all of whom are elected by General Council membership.

Yes, the citizens of Saratoga Springs elected a token black woman to be their mayor just to have a token minority in their city government.

Finally, after her country endured a decade of civil war that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, and with the help of Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, Johnson - Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

Since at the 1977 General Synod a woman elder did well in the race for the vice-presidency (in the RCA the vice-president of General Synod is heir presumptive for the presidency the next year), it seems well within the realm of possibility that during the coming decade a woman (elder or minister) will be elected president of the General Synod, the highest office the church can bestow.

He is a prophet like Jesus and Moses and Noah and Ibrahim... etc. women are free to go to school drive get elected... hopefully these lines will speak to you some of the truth about Islam because I am a Muslim and I do nt hate you and I do nt seek attention.

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

Did we really just elect to the world's most powerful office an orange monster who brags about groping women's genitals and warmly welcomes the praise of the KKK?

A Charleston caterer this month became the first African - American woman elected to the board of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), an 88 - year - old professional organization that counts more than 17,000 chefs among its members.