Sentences with phrase «on gender issues in»

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.

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.

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.

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When Olayan discusses gender issues in her own career, she focuses on the light and superficial.

By moving in the direction of having publicly traded companies have a policy that includes consideration of gender representation on boards and in senior management, we hope that they will really take that issue seriously, that they'll consider how they're finding people to be on their boards, how they're moving women through senior management roles and making them eligible for boards appointments.

In a Harvard Business Review article about male silence on sexual harassment issues, United States Naval Academy professor W. Brad Johnson and United States Naval War College professor David G. Smith explain the difference between men who model passive gender inclusion and those who model active gender inclusion.

Do some research on where your state stacks up against other states and call or write state lawmakers, urging them to address gender wage issues in state laws.

«This is a conversation that obviously needs to be had,» Franco said on the program in reference to the issue, as well as to the criticism he received online for wearing a pin advocating for the Time's Up movement of women in Hollywood working against sexual misconduct and gender imbalance in the industry.

The memo was obtained by The Canadian Press and it criticizes the Trudeau government in several areas: For too quickly rejecting U.S. proposals, for insisting on negotiating alongside Mexico, and for promoting progressive priorities like labour, gender, aboriginal and environmental issues.

Though they have made their mark in the private sector, these men and women are taking public stands on hot button social and environmental issues ranging from gay marriage to climate change to gender equality.

Marlene Williamson, CEO of Watermark, a Silicon Valley organization dedicated to women in leadership, said not only will Kalanick's resignation help Uber get back on track — his departure will have ramifications for other Bay Area tech companies struggling with their own issues of gender bias and sexual harassment.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his speech at the World Economic Forum 2018 annual meeting in Davos, eastern Switzerland on January 23, 2018 to reaffirm Canada's leadership on the issue of gender equality, both at home and at the upcoming G7 meeting, which Canada will chair.

It's a welcome thing, to be sure, in a landscape that are largely dominated by men — the lack of gender and racial diversity among VCs and entrepreneurs and even on tech boards has become a hot - button issue in Silicon Valley.

While these scandals expose the harmful reality of venture capital's male - dominated culture on women entrepreneurs, they have helped highlight an equally important issue — the extreme lack of gender diversity in all aspects of venture capital.

Dr. Ming also speaks frequently on issues of LGBT inclusion and gender in technology.

He does not even touch on what the political scientists Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl have called the «Hillary Doctrine,» promulgated through the Office of Global Women's Issues established by Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, and according to which any denial of gender equality anywhere in the world is a threat to American order.

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.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

My conservative friends took the opportunity to chastise and pester me, convinced my delay in writing a post on the topic revealed my participation in some vast media conspiracy and my unwarranted preoccupation with «minor» issues like gender equality in the church.

On the global stage, Western advocates define international human rights in an increasingly progressive way, especially on issues of gender and sexualitOn the global stage, Western advocates define international human rights in an increasingly progressive way, especially on issues of gender and sexualiton issues of gender and sexuality.

To be fair, both sides of the gender debate have been guilty of sliding down a slippery slope, which in my view is unnecessary, given the wealth of excellent resources available to help us accurately interpret Scripture on issues related to gender, sexuality, and faith.

The militia movement is more diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity and religious background and focuses on issues with wider resonance.

«I will not stop speaking out publicly on the issue of gender inequality in the church,» she wrote Sunday in a letter to the disciplinary council.

The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

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.

Appointed in 1986, Scalia has been on the Court long enough to have tackled virtually every important legal issue of our day: abortion, religious liberty, race and gender equality, gay rights, and separation of powers, among others.

Now, the Catholic Church of the 1980s was nothing like as potent a force as it had been in the age of Cardinal Spellman, when it could count on the solid electoral support of most of its faithful, and it already faced major revolts over issues of gender and sexuality.

In 1994, I sent Hartshorne a draft of my Introduction to Philosophy text, Change and the Unsurpassable, which evaluates philosophical issues from a process position but also contains material on prepatriarchal worldviews and uses gender - neutral expressions.

I also believe it is possible to discuss same - sex relationships, as well as other issues related to gender and sexuality, with respect, kindness, passion, and grace, and I hope to model that as best as I can here on the blog, in conversation with you.

He more explicitly takes up the arguments of liberals within the mainline church who suggest that conservative histrionics over the inclusion of homosexuals are no different from the resistance to racial or gender inclusiveness or to revision to the Book of Common Prayer (indeed, conservatives on the issue of homosexuality are in some regrettable company in recent history).

Topics are focused on the unique issues and opportunities facing women working in the alcohol beverage industry, including why gender diversity is good for business, mentoring to empower the next generation of leaders, understanding unconscious bias, thriving in the male - dominated alcohol beverage industry, and others.

Along the way Isleibtouches on golf - related issues such as nonconforming clubs, gender equity, women in men's events and slow play.

• A brief, inexpensive US intervention (one prenatal session, in separate gender groups focusing on psychosocial issues related to becoming first - time parents) was associated with reduced distress in some mothers at six weeks postpartum.

• A brief, inexpensive US prenatal intervention (consisting of one prenatal session with parents in separate gender groups focusing on psychosocial issues of first - time parenthood) was associated with mothers» reporting greater satisfaction with the sharing of home and baby tasks post partum (Matthey et al, 2004).

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto who writes frequently on issues of sexuality and gender in sport.

She has taught numerous classes on several college campuses with her expertise being in the area of gender issues, human sexuality, pre - and perinatal psychology, and conscious birth and parenting.

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.

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The justice and education departments said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that they «withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex.»

Oquaye is a writer, who has researched and written extensively on good governance, conflicts, political education, decentralization and development, human rights, military intervention in politics, NGOs, rural development and gender issues.

When talking to young people about how they feel we could address these they are very clear where more effective approaches to addressing these issue should lie, illustrated by a snippet from some work with some year 10s I spoke to a while ago in a discussion on online issues and gender differences:

But after an outcry from the company, Unbound, which accused the M.T.A. of a gendered double standard, was quickly seized on by several publications and on social media, the M.T.A. found itself once again mired in an issue that has plagued the agency — determining what is appropriate to promote on its buses, stations and trains.

In 2015, the state Education Department issued further guidelines under the act to specifically prevent discrimination of transgender and gender - nonconforming students, along with suggestions on how to make them feel more comfortable at school, including the right to use the restroom and locker room in accordance with their gender identity, participate in gender - segregated activities in accordance with their gender identity, and adhere to dress codes in accordance with their gender identity and expressioIn 2015, the state Education Department issued further guidelines under the act to specifically prevent discrimination of transgender and gender - nonconforming students, along with suggestions on how to make them feel more comfortable at school, including the right to use the restroom and locker room in accordance with their gender identity, participate in gender - segregated activities in accordance with their gender identity, and adhere to dress codes in accordance with their gender identity and expressioin accordance with their gender identity, participate in gender - segregated activities in accordance with their gender identity, and adhere to dress codes in accordance with their gender identity and expressioin gender - segregated activities in accordance with their gender identity, and adhere to dress codes in accordance with their gender identity and expressioin accordance with their gender identity, and adhere to dress codes in accordance with their gender identity and expressioin accordance with their gender identity and expression.

Williams, arguably one of the greatest athletes ever, has been outspoken on women's rights and gender and race issues in recent times.

Those issues included closing the «L.L.C. loophole» in campaign finance, amending the SAFE Act, passing GENDA, a law banning discrimination on the grounds of gender identity, and no amendments to raise the age of adult criminal culpability.

WASHINGTON — New Yorkers Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Steve Israel are on opposite sides in a tight Democratic primary battle engulfed in issues of race and gender and located 200 miles away in Maryland.

In October, New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo became the first governor in the U.S. to issue an order «prohibiting harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender identity, transgender status or gender dysphoria,» according to a press release from Cuomo's officIn October, New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo became the first governor in the U.S. to issue an order «prohibiting harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender identity, transgender status or gender dysphoria,» according to a press release from Cuomo's officin the U.S. to issue an order «prohibiting harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender identity, transgender status or gender dysphoria,» according to a press release from Cuomo's office.

Since then she has spoken about the topic at various events, including at a spring 2008 conference in Florida organized by the Gill Action Fund, a Colorado - based organization that advocates on gender and sexual orientation issues.