Sentences with phrase «other women in my profession»

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

She described for us how she and other «first - stage» feminists fought to restore a fully legitimate place for women in the professions and in careers, a place they had won in the twenties and thirties but lost again as the post-war «feminine mystique» tightened its grip.

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.

Women have gained far more status in most other professions than in the ministry.

The solution, Jerker proposes, lies in midwifery — a profession that dates back to ancient Egypt when women supported other women in childbirth.

In many professions and sections of our society, women do some jobs and men do others.

«This may not apply to women working in other professions, but the findings do apply to management practices in all fields in terms of the importance of providing opportunities for training and advancement as well as encouraging a healthy work - life balance.»

Ahead of its time for awards of this type, the AAUW Selected Professional Focus Professions Group Fellowships program was created in 1970 for female African American students and other historically underrepresented minority women.

There is constant discussion about how many black women already engage in similar type relationships, becoming involved with men that are drug dealers or some other highly lucrative and equally illegal profession.

It would be naive to assume that this is an isolated case in the film industry or any other and while women remain so underrepresented across all professions and in politics, they remain at risk.

First, increasing teaching salaries and permanent teaching positions would help lift the status of the profession and also make it more viable, particularly for older men and women who might have worked in other professions and then want to transition into teaching.

Still I do not think any of us presumes to think that teachers will remain in positions as long as their predecessors did when many other types of occupations and professions were not open to women or people of color.

To attract high - aptitude women back into teaching, school districts need to reward teachers in the same way that college graduates are paid in other professions - that is, according to their performance.

Others I follow religiously include Overlawyered, where Walter Olson keeps a critical eye focused on the legal profession; Legal Profession Blog, which is unparalleled in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since 2002.

The blog was intended to discuss the role of women in the law, in legal education, as students, as academics, and within the legal profession, and we also discuss other issues.

By supporting each other, we will individually reach new heights in our profession, and collectively attain equal representation for women at the highest levels of the legal profession.

Even though the event exceeded my expectations last year, they really stepped up their game and even invited other organizations to join in on the fun, offering programs for women in the legal profession and small firms, like those hosted by Evolve Law.

Since women entered the legal profession there has been a steady erosion of women moving from private practice to in - house, government and other legal positions that offer a more supportive work environment.

In her groundbreaking 1993 report «Touchstones for Change», Canada's first female Supreme Court justice Bertha Wilson stressed the difficulties faced by women lawyers with children, urging the profession to measure a lawyer's performance by standards other than hours billed.

What's more, the flat fee will have a significantly disproportionate impact on women, people of colour, people with disabilities and others who are the subject of wage discrimination in the legal profession.

Recent studies by the Washington and New York state bar associations, the National Association of Women Lawyer, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Catalyst, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and others, confirm that women lawyers continue to face obstacles to success in the legal profession — and that employers who are committed to women's professional success can remove those barrWomen Lawyer, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Catalyst, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and others, confirm that women lawyers continue to face obstacles to success in the legal profession — and that employers who are committed to women's professional success can remove those barrwomen lawyers continue to face obstacles to success in the legal profession — and that employers who are committed to women's professional success can remove those barrwomen's professional success can remove those barriers.

This site — and plenty of others — have a depressing amount of posts about the lack of diversity in the legal profession regarding both women and people of color.

At the same time that the legal profession seems to be excluding full participation by women and minorities, globalization is putting lawyers in contact with clients from other cultures and in countries beyond our own.

We also work very hard to make sure that our session speakers are diverse as well and so we will have — I think we are going to have parity right now between women and minorities and your kind of normal White male speakers that you see in a lot of other conferences, because we want our conference to reflect legal profession and we know that the legal profession is more than just any single type of person, just like there is no single type of law.

Called to the Bar of Ontario in 2003, Rebecca works as a lawyer, and has previously researched and published in a variety of areas, including youth criminal justice law, law practice management and equality issues relating to women and members of other historically marginalized groups in the legal profession as well as contributing as author and co-editor to several Demeter Press anthologies.

Virtually everyone uses verbal fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand words, with a median filler rate of 17.3 per thousand words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances, just ahead of or and just after not.20 A British study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases with education and socioeconomic status, a finding with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal fillers more often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparwomen — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparWomen, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23

Seeing other women forge a successful path in the profession and joining firms that clearly demonstrate their commitment to female attorneys will encourage younger lawyers.

The high percentage of women who were very unsatisfied or unsatisfied (43 %) with their marital satisfaction needs more in - depth clarification of marital life in this group, in particular, but, also in comparison with women of other professions and from the general population.

Every day, the 100,000 men and women in the profession compete vigorously with each other and with unlicensed, unregulated alternatives.