Sentences with phrase «progressing equality for women»

Not exact matches

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.

Progress on wage equality for women in the United States has been demonstrably slow in recent years — but a number of companies have taken matters into their own hands.

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.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

Whereas, we can take pride in the progress our state and nation have made in reinforcing women's rights over the decades and recognize that we have not yet crossed all thresholds to fulfilling our mission and quest for true equality; today we celebrate the economic, social, and political accomplishments of women, we honor the courageous women who have made extraordinary contributions to their countries and communities, and we pause to remember the struggles waged by generations of women who have led the fight for equality and justice; and

Reformers like the eighteenth century Mary Wollstonecraft acted in a period where little progress had been made towards educational equality, and the reality for women who block marriage laws were essentially property rights and everything a woman owned belonged to her husband.

«We've made progress on equality, even in the Sun,» she said, before describing a girl on page three of the newspaper called Harriet who had written that she was concerned about jobs for women.

«The Women's Equality Party of New York State is committed to fight against any attempts to roll back the progress that women have made in this Country and for true equality for all New Yorkers,» she wWomen's Equality Party of New York State is committed to fight against any attempts to roll back the progress that women have made in this Country and for true equality for all New Yorkers,» she wwomen have made in this Country and for true equality for all New Yorkers,» she wrote.

Katherine Rake, director of the Fawcett Society, said: «This letter demonstrates the rising tide of concern amongst unions and equality charities about the slow pace of progress towards equal pay for women.

Women's History Month is a time for recognizing the milestones reached on the road to equality and the pioneering women who have made progress possWomen's History Month is a time for recognizing the milestones reached on the road to equality and the pioneering women who have made progress posswomen who have made progress possible.

This week, International Women's Day was recognized the world over and a much - needed spotlight was shone on the progress achieved for equality and challenges that still lie ahead.

Despite this, progress towards greater equality for women is being made both in North America and on a global level.

Our CEDAW Report Card, released last week, notes repeatedly that the province is failing to make significant progress on equality for women and girls in BC, for example by failing to follow through on the recommendations of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and to ensure the safety and human rights of women and girls in prison.

In early March, at the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN representatives, politicians, and civil society practitioners gathered to take stock of the progress made towards gender equality two decades after the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

De-gendering gender diversity by offering and accepting equal parental leave and flexible working options without career consequences for both men and women seems to me like the next logical step to help to make real and lasting gender equality progress in the workplace.

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