Sentences with phrase «on gender issues»

Her main areas of expertise include extensive research and writing on gender issues in African society; media and popular culture in an African context; speaking engagements and university guest lectures.

Her video installations and photographic works explore the political and social conditions of Iranian and Muslim culture, particularly focusing on gender issues and questions of power.

It may be easier to make progress on gender issues with countries that more closely share Canadian values.

More (or less) reflections on gender issues?

I recognize my readership is broad and not all agree on gender issues, but I think we can still have a good discussion.

They did not ask me to preach on gender issues and if they had, I might have agreed, but they would have not been happy, I think.

Voters expect these groups to be progressive on gender issues.

I feel like we're on that breaking point now on the gender issue.

There is a lot of evidence for all the arguments, but about half can be interpreted as bias or ignorance on gender issues depending on who is delivering it.

Its exploration about the meaning of identity and a focus on gender issues will bring many interesting discussion topics for the classroom or for a book club.

Through the reflection on gender issues, often reinforced by biting humour, her work addresses the issues of «building,».

Her passion infected me — I've spent the last three years working on gender issues in international education.»

We do so by organising training courses and study visits for municipal staff, NGOs and CBOs (see for example the reports on the Study visit and staff training on urban agriculture and HIV - AIDS (Cape Town, South Africa), the Study visit and training on strengthening urban producer groups (the Netherlands); the workshop on gender issues in urban agriculture (Accra, Ghana) and the workshops with the regional NGO network DIOBASS (Kivu, Uganda).

Trudeau's participation on a panel with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on gender issues had everyone talking.

While CETA has gender non-discrimination language, it is fair to say that Canada is ploughing relatively new ground in its push for inclusion of specific language on gender issues in trade agreements.

A Christian expert on gender issues has expressed scepticism over the government's commitment to closing... More

Major speakers include Episcopal Bishop Jane Dixon on gender issues; Rosemary R. Ruether on «towards a more democratic church,» one in which, presumably, her doctrine that Christ is but one of many Christ figures (and not necessarily the most impressive) will be cheerfully embraced; Fr.

so just because Owen and I disagree on gender issues doesn't mean I'd try to get him blocked or banned or censored.

Such people do appear to create a predicament for other people with strongly held convictions on gender issues, don't they?

Jane Fae is a feminist and writer on gender issues.

In this article Petra Missomelius reflects on gender issues and reports on a Frankfurt symposium, «The Exception or the Rule?

At first sight, concludes a recent European report on gender issues in the accession countries, women scientists are better off working in Central and Eastern Europe, in terms of gender equality across all scientific disciplines.

Conference panellists Baroness Diana Warwick, chief executive of CVCP, and Sir Brian Fender, chief executive of HEFCE, made it clear that the Equality Challenge Unit will not focus solely on the gender issue, and that bolstering the number of women in SET will be lumped into a broader pool of discrimination issues including racial equality and power struggles between administration, research, and technical teams.

Workshops on gender issues, ending violence campaigns and establishment of a theatre and drama groups to strengthen delivery of information.

She writes a blog called «The Double X Economy» and also blogs for Forbes and Bloomberg Businessweek on gender issues.

Whether making deliberately tacky object paintings incorporating images of truncated sex workers, or in her recent paintings rife with art historical references, she has repeatedly touched on gender issues, challenging notions associated with the male gaze.

Update, 9:50 a.m. Some clues on the gender issue are in this post on Kendra Kent of Fox Carolina by a business consultant, Frank Magid: «Women and Weather Jobs — The Big Freeze - Out.»

I admire her eloquent writings on gender issues advancing the goal that laws should be gender neutral and apply equally.

For the most part, I find the concerns somewhat overstated, and the emphasis misplaced on gender issues when this is much more likely a signal that what firms are doing isn't working for a significant proportion of the profession.

Gender - specific approach • To comply with international commitments to gender equality, three key areas are: training of judges and other actors in the criminal justice system on gender issues (particularly those set out in the Bangkok and Tokyo Rules); reducing the criminalisation of women subject to exploitation, abuse and coercion; and changing sentencing.

Amongst the proposals, the paper notes judicial training on gender issues, particularly the content and existence of the Bangkok Rules, does not appear to be available in the published judicial college course materials.

Participation in Student's Union: An Agenda for Discussions on Gender Issues, Citizenship and Didactics

Other examples of remedial efforts taken too far include Justice Zucker's decision last year in R. v. Ururyar, which drew significant attention in its extensive reference of sociological work on gender issues and sexual assault in society.

The main activities were implemented by Sudanese Women General Union, SWGU, included seminars and workshops targeting the local leaders, women and creation of awareness on the need for dialogue, workshops, workshops on gender issues with establishment of a theatre and drama groups to strengthen delivery of information.

As wonderful as blogging is, there's very little that's going to contribute to a grant or paper,» said Dr. Isis, a pseudonymous blogger who focuses on gender issues in science and scientific lifestyles, when she spoke at ScienceOnline2011 by video link, wearing sunglasses, a surgical mask, and a woolly pirate hat to conceal her identity.

He told reporters in Perth: «Qantas has always spoken up on gender issues, on LGBTI issues, on Indigenous issues and we will continue to do so and no attempt at bullying us into suppressing our voice will work.»

Many also have raised questions about the impact of globalization on the condition of women, on gender issues, on questions of migration, and as we are going to be discussing in this Consultation on the situation of human rights.

I am available for public speaking in many forums: universities, childbirth and midwifery conferences, conferences on alternative health care, on gender issues, on myth and ritual, and on science and technology.

and of Kept Quiet, two television programs focusing on gender issues and political activism.

The report says that MIT must continue to work on gender issues «for the foreseeable future.»

Even as late as 1997, studies of therapists still indicated that many did not see the need for a focus on gender issues, and still maintained the view that marital partners are really equal.

Her current research is on gender issues, anger, and emotional development.