Sentences with phrase «of women in the profession»

When I started as an accountant, in 1980, roughly, there was less than 10 % of women in the profession.

As the face of the legal profession continues to change, women's initiatives have already begun to adapt to the needs of women in the profession.

Studies that look primarily at the role of women in the profession are not included.

Just as numbers do not tell the full story of women and law, simply fixating on the ratios of women in the profession does fully address years of systematic inequality pervasive in the legal system.

Most of all, it bears out that when it comes to the success of women in the profession, so much has changed (presumably, firms no longer reject female candidates with Ginsburg's credentials), yet so much still remains the same: While law firm policies are important, ultimately, it takes a family (in Ginsburg's case, a supportive husband and in - laws) and an ability to overcome adversity for women to maximize their professional potential in the law.

This is true at the BigLaw level as well, where diversity — both in terms of people of color and in terms of advancing the role of women in a profession where they are far less likely to end up at the top — seems to be framed simultaneously as incredibly important but also impossible.

At the time, she made over 200 recommendations for improving the lot of women in the profession.

He, too, has also made diversity a priority, and was recently given a Catalyst Canada Honours award for promotion of women in the profession.

I hope all those directions, all those different pressures come all together at once and we see some big changes because we haven't seen change in the gender equity attrition rates and so on of women in this profession in quite a few years.

In the 1980s, as chair of the ABA's newly formed women's commission, Hillary Clinton signed off on the first - ever ABA report on the status of women in the profession.

In 1984, DWLA incorporated as a non-profit corporation, and included in its purposes uniting for the mutual benefit of women attorneys and elevating the standards of women in the profession.

Child - bearing and - rearing issues also contribute to the stuck - in - idle status of women in the profession.

Calvert also co-founded the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), which works to reduce unwanted attrition among lawyers by promoting the retention and advancement of women in the profession.

Yet, despite some isolated efforts to hire and retain more female attorneys and promote more women into partnership, little tangible progress has been made to improve the position of women in the profession...

The Coalition is one of the only organizations of its kind in the nation, with chapters in Chicago and New York City and more than 150 law firms and companies that work together to facilitate the advancement of women in the profession.

Not exact matches

Tokyo and Munich, in particular, coincided with the graphic design profession's coming of age, Hulse notes, when some now - universally recognized visual shorthands came into being, such as the men's and women's symbols on bathroom doors.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

Smith said Crawford took pride in advancing the careers of women in the legal profession and established a team - based, client - focused culture that continues to be the style at Osler.

«In these professions, being attractive was highly detrimental to women,» said Stefanie Johnson, a University of Colorado - Denver business school professor and one of the study's authors.

For example, women who operate sewing machine operators make 111 % of what men in that profession make, according to BLS data.

Beth Seidenberg, a partner at KPCB, suggests, «Women need to see role models in the profession to know what is possible... The first thing we need to do is fix the top of the funnel.

She asked why that was the case, and they talked about the problems of combining marriage, motherhood, and training in medicine (which she had experienced personally), the resentment of women that many doctors have, and the irony that a profession dedicated to caring for people was so overwhelmingly composed of men.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

But beyond saying that women can shine in every profession, Stein calls women to exercise their professions as women: «The participation of women in the most diverse professional disciplines could be a blessing for the entire society, private or public, precisely if the specifically feminine ethos would be preserved» (Woman, p. 49).

Contributing nearly # 9bn to the UK economy and with over 80,000 women providing services to the industry, the world's oldest profession (though midwives may disagree) is still thriving in many of the UK's towns and cities.

Still, most of these hardships exist in other professions where women have children at far higher rates.

Although mainstream psychiatry is fairly sceptical, an increasing number within the profession acknowledge the damaging effect of abortion on mental health and maintain that the symptoms relating to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are commonly identified in the assessment of post-abortive women.

An interesting sociological problem which he was the first to raise is that of the specialized languages of women in some civilizations, of certain professions and classes, the poetic and court idioms, etcetera.

The second is a restless to radical, largely post-affluent group made up of the militant young, women in quest of liberation, students, intellectuals, and a variety of others scattered through the professions and other sectors largely outside the primary goods - producing area of the society.

I see this in the medical / dental community of which I am part, that either women participate fully in their professions and have no children, or they have a family and their work comes second.

Based on what various family members and friends in the medical profession who deal with pregnant young women have told me, many pregnant out - of - wedlock young women face tremendous pressure from both their parents (including the good religious folks) and the guy who got them pregnant to have an abortion.

Am I suggesting that women should not aim at being top in the professions, at becoming the CEO of some large company, or going high in political life?

Agreed: «don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...» Those who «show» their faith, whether through their profession (Pastor, Missionary) or pious works (church board, conference speaker), can only be assessed as more sincere if there is evidence they were religious / pious / faithful when no one was looking (Pope John Paul II never confirmed this, but as a young priest, it was reported he worked in the Polish underground to save many Jewish children from the Nazi's, years later, he was visiting Israel and a woman who claimed he was the priest who saved her from the Nazis stepped forward to meet him, he blessed her, yet never did confirm or deny if he had played the part of a hero).

There were so many aspects of this that were interesting — the women - dominated elite profession and the discrimination against men, the way the government intended to use the science in its war, the polarization of society about the science and the practitioners of empirical philosophy... And amidst all of this?

In addition to my above professions, I truly consider my role as a wife, mother and everyday woman to be of greatest value.

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A man secure in his own profession as vice president of his family's bank, a man born to the first female pilot in Monroe County, Tennessee, a man unthreatened by a woman with a life all her own.

There Fowles will be hit with a new round of challenges unique to women the size of WNBA centers trying to make it in the profession.

However, this was only seen in women who were exposed frequently to high levels of solvents over a period of time either by choice or by profession.

In an era when «breast is best» is trumpeted by the government, by the medical profession and even by baby formula companies, an estimated 1 to 5 percent of women are physically unable to produce enough milk to feed their babies.

Geradine is currently the Executive Director of Midwives Alliance of North America, a professional organization that promotes excellence in midwifery and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality healthcare and improving outcomes for women, babies and their families.

She completed the HRSA Bureau of Health Professions Primary Care Policy Fellowship Program in 2000, and the Women's Education and Research Institute (WREI) Congressional Fellowship Program in 2005.

The medical profession, while extremely useful in the event of a high - risk pregnancy, has taken the 80 % of low - risk women and turned their birth in to a medical event that needs to be managed - an event that women and babies need to be «delivered» from.

Do you really care about birth and women and what women want (and have as mainstream options in more civilized parts of the post industrial world) or do you just like to insult and point your ranting finger at what affirms your profession?

Is there a gap between what women want and what the medical profession want, or a gap in the understanding of risk?

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The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), established in 1982, is a professional membership organization that promotes excellence in midwifery practice, endorses diversity in educational backgrounds and practice styles, and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality health care and improving outcomes for women, babies, families, and communities.

She advises numerous midwifery organizations and consults with NACPM on strategy, programs and initiatives to support the development of the CPM profession and to improve the quality of maternity care for all women in the U.S.

NACPM is sponsoring her research on the barriers that women of color experience with respect to the midwifery profession, in order to optimally structure a midwifery education scholarship program aimed at women of color.