Sentences with phrase «of women workers»

Attorney General Ferguson and his team of remarkable attorneys have successfully defended the rights of LGBTQ people to fair and non-discriminatory treatment, challenged the Administration's unlawful ban on Muslim travelers, and challenged sex - segregated hiring practices and sexual harassment of women workers by a large agricultural packing house.

She has devoted countless hours to the most important pay equity challenges of our time and has successfully obtained fair pay for hundreds of thousands of women workers.

Based on the article, it is revealed that there are a lot of factors that affect the ability of women workers to save more for their retirement.

But the minute women have that second or third child, that makes the most difference: the problem is that the care needs of the women workers increase exponentially because usually child care is on a per child basis.

The International day of Women was created in recognition and to celebrate the Rights of women workers, in order to promote their participation in the struggle for equity and equality, which presently is one of the UN Millennium Development Goals / MDGs..

The International day of Women was created in recognition and to celebrate the Rights of women workers, in order to promote their participation in the struggle for equity and equality, which presently is one -LSB-...]

Organized by Klara Zetkin, a German socialist, the day featured strikes and marches in support of the rights of women workers worldwide.

The plight of women workers of toy factories is only the tip of the iceberg.

Not exact matches

However, even among full - time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked longer than women — 8.4 hours, compared with 7.8 hours, respectively, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The simultaneous jumps in the number of older workers and the ranks of the self - employed prompt an automatic response: men and women are capitalizing on a career's worth of experience and coasting into retirement as consultants and freelancers.

Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

Though AlSyead says reaching Olayan's 1,000 - woman goal in 2016 is statistically impossible, she touts the company's milestones: It has hired the first - ever female worker in the Saudi city of Yanbu, for example.

To visitors, the most front - facing of these workers are the men and women who stand at either end of the road holding signs instructing cars to either stop or go.

Oxfam said that women workers were worst hit by global inequality as they consistently earn less than men and usually have lower paid and more insecure forms of work.

Two - thirds of the minimum wage workers in America are women, Sandberg wrote.

Workers at companies with higher levels of openness have higher rates of job satisfaction and are less likely to quit; more women also apply to such firms because they feel less pressure to negotiate.

According to data from the American Community Survey, in 2014, the pay gap for full - time workers was smallest in Washington, D.C. (There, women were paid 90 percent of what men earned.)

You said you had an epiphany in interviewing some of these former steel workers — that as a woman of color, you could empathize with middle - aged white men.

Women in the country of Gilead are subjugated to the role of wife - breeder, housekeeper, sex worker, or disposable commodity.

The CUPW claims that, on average, rural postal workers earn 30 % less than their urban counterparts; the majority of rural carriers are women.

Women tend to be more neurotic than men, but contrary to hoary old stereotypes of moody women, it's actually openness to new experiences that most dents the productivity of female worWomen tend to be more neurotic than men, but contrary to hoary old stereotypes of moody women, it's actually openness to new experiences that most dents the productivity of female worwomen, it's actually openness to new experiences that most dents the productivity of female workers.

And a 2010 survey by the Institute for Women's Policy Research revealed nearly half of US workers reported they were either «contractually forbidden or strongly discouraged» from discussing pay with coworkers (although, as of 2014, 10 states had passed laws protecting employees» rights to discuss salaries).

For example, we would have a ton of support from public school teachers, young men and young women who were social workers or probation officers.

Although women have historically run behind men in business, they're upbeat about women's future as owners or workers, according to a survey released last week by Bank of America.

The tea farm only employs women, pays them 36 percent above the industry standard and, to give you a sense of how dire worker conditions in the tea industry are, they can go home at night.

In addition to gender, black women see obstacles to racial equality: three - quarters of black women workers say there are still significant hurdles holding back minorities.

While a majority of those surveyed believe that the pay gap is real for both women and minorities, not everyone understands that black workers — specifically women — see more obstacles to racial equality and barriers in the workplace.

I don't mean harming or killing in the same way that policemen and women are harmed or killed in the line of duty, obviously, or people who handle hazardous chemicals, or aid workers in war - torn countries.

But family lawyers and women's rights workers believe the legislation represents a turning point in the freedoms of Russian women, a dark signal from the very top of government that their lives are losing value.

According to the US Department of Labor, women are a serious «force in the workforce,» making up 47 % of workers in the country.

Her advice is the same for any parent, woman or man, CEO or temp worker: get help where you can, share the load, and then «Let go of the guilt, tell your kids you love them, and go order pizza.»

«In Canada for instance, 99 per cent of our factory workers are Chinese women sewers.

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

If women, seniors and immigrants, collectively, were employed at their level of education, earning equal pay to men born in Canada, personal incomes would increase by $ 174 billion, or an equivalent of 1.6 million more workers.

Use and invest in high quality pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs that create new pathways for underrepresented workers such as women and people of color;

The McDonald's golden arches logo on a Lynwood, Calif., restaurant worker's shirt is flipped over in honor of International Women's Day.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

A C.D. Howe Institute study shows that of all prime working - age workers in part - time positions, 50 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women would prefer full - time employment.

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

A former safari camp worker from South Africa has become the first woman to be ordained as a Church of... More

The Archbishop of Canterbury is increasing his support for outreach for women in the sex industry, by becoming the patron of a charity which ministers to sex workers.

A «small army» of social workers and charitable groups managed their arrivals» from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society workers in their white enamel badges to the volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women (light blue silk armbands).

A former safari camp worker from South Africa has become the first woman to be ordained as a Church of Scotland minister on the Isle of Skye.

The Domestic Workers Convention sets the first global standards for the estimated 50 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women andWorkers Convention sets the first global standards for the estimated 50 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women andworkers worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women and girls.

Women workers are a paradigm of the suffering victims of the TNCs in Asia.

Let us take the case of the Korean women workers.

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.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

Our present concept of Homo Faber («Man, the Worker») has, as we have seen, inhibited this exercise of freedom, causing men and women to turn potentially playful experiences into attempts to escape tension, boredom, or fatigue, or into exercises geared at accomplishing something constructive.

A worker in the cathedral told the BBC, «I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews.