Sentences with phrase «on women and equality»

Also, some of the Lib Dem workers who have come forward say they took their concerns to other senior members of the party: specifically Paul Burstow (at the time the party's Chief Whip) and Jo Swinson (at the time the spokesperson on women and equality).

For, on Monday, he was elected, unopposed, to fill a Conservative vacancy on the Women and Equalities Committee, an independent parliamentary committee that has done much to bring the government to account for its record in this area.

If you look at the government's track record on women and equalities, it's actually really bad.

The Commons» last day before the Easter break opens (9.30 am) with half an hour of international trade questions, followed by a mini-question time on women and equalities and the weekly business statement, setting out the agenda for the House after Easter.

Not exact matches

Global Citizen's latest European concert was held during the G - 20 summit in Hamburg in July, where leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared on stage in support of empowering women and girls in the fight for equality.

While Japan has made progress on economic participation and opportunity for women — one of the report's four gender equality measures — it's seen a reversal in women's political empowerment.

«It's wonderful that women are standing up for something that's been going on for a long time, and hopefully, within a generation, we will come closer to this equality we're trying to achieve.»

However, the company responded to comments to that effect on its Facebook page, writing, «Audi has diverse hiring practices to ensure equality across our staff and we pledge to put aggressive hiring and development strategies in place to increase the number of women in our workforce, at all levels.»

Intel announced on Tuesday that it has achieved 100 % pay equality for both women and underrepresented minorities, according to the chipmaker's 2016 diversity and inclusion report.

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The women's professional network Levo, for instance, launched its annual #Ask4More campaign last week, opening with comments from high - profile leaders such as Chelsea Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg on the importance of demanding equal pay and equality generally.

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Even deciding whether or not Jane Austen's sour face goes on the tenner — critics say more women, besides Her Majesty, need to be represented on currency — will be a lesson in England's hyper - sensitivities about its equality and heritage.

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.

Companies that have more women on their boards and in their senior management teams aren't just opening doors to gender equality.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government once again racked up failing grades on the West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund's annual women's equality report card, say New Democrats.

Premier John Horgan set the tone for gender equality in B.C. by appointing 11 women to his 22 - member cabinet, and on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, appointed Esquimalt - Metchosin MLA Mitzi Dean as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity.

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.

These discussions about compatibility have their place, but if we spend all our time justifying which side of the gender equality debate we're on, the conversation will never truly progress and the Church will never become the advocate for women it could be.

While I believe in equality, I believe more in treating women with respect and some degree of limitation on physical contact in public events.

I'm a progressive Christian and liberal on 90 % of political issues including marriage equality and women's rights; however, I think that this should be seen as a tipping point for Christians everywhere.

She rejects a limiting view of feminism as the quest for women's equality with men in favor of radical feminism's focus on «the autonomy, independence, and creation of the female Self in affinity with others like the Self» (GFF 11).

I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

There are the stereotypes: the ignorant, the uneducated, the angry, the anti-Muslim homophobes, terrifying us on our late - night television programs, deriding progress and climate change and women's equality.

The «prevailing Christian view» until relitively recently, would have been against any notion of the rapture, the equality of women, the emancipation of slaves, and a host of other things that most Christians today look back on with some disgust being attached to their religion's history.

I'm sticking to my position on gender equality in the home and Church --(which doesn't mean I don't think there are differences between men and women, by the way; it just means I am reluctant to declare those differences universal and prescriptive or indicative of some sort of God - ordained hierarchy between men and women)-- but I want to «fight fair» if you will, especially with folks I consider to be my brothers and sisters in Christ.

Yet Sister Florence insists that there are «inconsistencies» in the Church's explication on the role of women, especially women religious, and such inconsistencies are what ultimately drive Sister Florence and the LCWR in their search for «equality» in the Church.

In response to our coordinate efforts for Mutuality 2012, I have heard from women who say they feel their dignity and worth have been restored, from multiple readers who have changed their minds about women in ministry, from couples relieved that they can finally put a name to how their relationship has functioned all along, from singles freshly inspired by the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds them, from followers of Jesus whose passion for justice and equality has been renewed, from women ready to «get on with it» and stop asking permission to use their gifts and start unapologetically using them.

First, it assumes sexual assault, harassment, and abuse are recent phenomena, products of egalitarian views on gender that grant women equality in the home, church, and culture.

Rev Stowell from Women and the Church went on to say: «This has been a very clear marker for the direction of travel of the Church in terms of wanting to have full gender equality.»

She seeks to do this through promoting truth - seeking expeditions, advocating gender equality, educating the Church on abuse, and aiding the rescue of men, women and children from spiritual, emotional and physical poverty.

Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote Roe and who never offered the slightest constitutional defense of it, simply remarked that the decision was a landmark on women's march to equality.

I think equality requires that we treat women in principle as on the same level in the spirit of» coworkers» and in that sense I perceive it as an elevation of status from that of victimhood.

Three books on biblical scholarship and equality that changed my mind and resulted in repentence about the «issue» of women:

It has insisted on equality between women and men, and on justice for women regarding access to basic needs, the means of sustaining a livelihood and the decision - making processes that organize and regulate the common life.

«I consider myself working on the next civil equality movement, just like women's rights, LGBT rights and African - American Civil Rights.

The relation between man and woman on the basis of equality of personhood comes within it.

by Loren Cunningham I have been a longtime supporter of women and equality in the church, but kept it on the downlow for such a long time for all kinds of reasons.

Yes, it was actually precisely because I was writing about life on the other side of the gender debates, advocating for the full equality of women, that I rediscovered, appreciated, and began to love my brother, Paul.

7) The pill, equality, and freedom of women have narrowed dramatically and may eliminate the male - female dual standards on sex; there is generally more sexual freedom and variety before and within marriage.

• Analytical, normative and operational leadership on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

When I looked at his full ministry — how he praised and esteemed women in leadership in the Church, how he turned household codes within a patriarchal society on their head, how he used feminine metaphors, how he subverted the systems, how he passionately defended equality — the verses that used to clobber me began to embrace me.

It ridiculous that women, can have higher positions then men in the professional sense, but when it comes to sports some people, think that we should take a back seat and watch, Maybe you should brush up on you equality rights.

Granted there are some small portions of the article that shed light on the struggle of women in the catholic church and equality.

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.

I wish we could get beyond the arguments over women leaders and same - sex equality and get on with the job of being Christ to people.

Next spring, the government will begin a consultation on introducing what is often referred to as «full marriage equality», that is to say legislating to allow two men and two women as well as one man and one woman to form a civil marriage contract.

By rejoining also on the woman the obligation not to initiate proceedings of divorce against her husband, Jesus implicitly affirmed the fundamental equality of man and woman as persons (Mk.

Two people cash have differing opinions on abortion, h0m0s3xuality, capital punishment, women's rights, race equality, the treatment of children, animals, and the environment, plus a host of other topics, and still be justified in calling themselves «Christian».

Gender equity or equality: generally speaking there is a desire in Africa that the equal dignity of man and woman given to them by the creator be more fully honoured on that continent.