Sentences with phrase «push for more women»

Practice and office heads at firms including HSF, Gowling WLG and Eversheds on the push for more women at senior levels of law

«A high priority for us»: CPPIB using its shareholder votes to push for more women on corporate boards

A fresh campaign to push for more women in politics faces challenges from both crisis - driven news cycles and the forces of the right.

David Cameron, in the latest edition of The House magazine, has given an interview to Paul Waugh, in which he suggests the Conservative Party should use the ongoing boundary reviews - and the consequent Party selection processes - to push for more women candidates.

Through its Reflective Democracy Campaign, WDN has pushed for more women representation at all levels of government.

An outfit pushing for more woman on the City Council recently asked all eight candidates for speaker to embrace the drive.

«It's time for action»: The «Systemic Change Project,» a joint initiative of Women in Film Los Angeles and the Sundance Institute, is pushing for more women in film and TV.

Not exact matches

After the rallies, immigrant rights groups will join LGBTQ, African - American and women's organizations this summer to push for the election of new leaders, Salas said, adding that they hope to see more support from Americans who aren't immigrants.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

With this in mind, James says her next big goals are to make the funding situation more equitable for local women and to push local early - stage startups toward commercialization.

The honorees will include Joanne Smith, the Chief Human Resources Officer for Delta Air Lines (No. 98 on this year's list), for helping the airline to build a more inclusive workplace by pushing it to commit to the White House Equal Pay Pledge, which encourages U.S. companies to take action to advance equal pay among men and women.

Of the four, Riyadh - based Lubna is the most visible: A regular at Davos, she gained attention in the West for her push to champion more women in big business, quite a task in her ultra-conservative homeland.

Women, and Generation X and Y lawyers more generally, are pushing for these changes on the supply side; clients determined to reduce legal fees and increase flexible service are pulling on the demand side.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

A chapter called «Praxis and Solidarity» explores the push of many in the church for a more direct relationship between theological education and specific contexts and «underrepresented constituencies,» such as blacks, women, Hispanics, Native Americans and Third World peoples.

Not to mention that being told to sit quietly, submissively, and above all, not to show your anger, is one of the major ways that women have been pushed down and marginalized in our culture (which, I would suggest, is a strong contributing factor to the kind of feedback you have been receiving for your recent posts - you were far nicer to Mark or Donald or whoever than many of us guys have been to them over the years, and yet you seemed to receive far more criticism for speaking up - i.e. not just for what you said, but for the very fact that you said anything at all - than we would have).

On other pages a hat-less Ben Hogan signs autographs for youngsters next to a sign proclaiming BUY MORE WAR BONDS; a phalanx of men pushes grass mowers past the Pinehurst clubhouse in the 1930s; Fred Astaire plays miniature golf with a lady on the roof of a Manhattan hotel; Babe Didrikson Zaharias, her knee - length skirt billowing, tees off at Tulsa's Southern Hills Country Club at the 1946 Women's Amateur; and a shirtless lefthander with a grip from hell Hails away on the driving range at the Ala Wai Golf Course in Honolulu.

While pushing for more recognition and value of domestic work in our policies, Valenti illuminates how envisioning parenthood as a «job» breeds more perfectionism and self - flagellation among women.

That means no nurses pushing formula, lactation support in the hospital, support for moms in the workplace, cultural norms that allow women to breastfeed in public places without being shamed, and more support among women for dealing with the challenges.

Women need to push for leadership roles in youth sports both as coaches and administrators to protect their children from needless injury playing sports and help break down the gender stereotyping and sexist attitudes that permeate today's youth sports culture more than 25 years after the passage of Title IX.

c - section at some point, yet is all for natural birthing, I can say that the encouragement of having a more natural birth is being pushed by c - section women, not the doctors.

Society may still be slightly more inclined to give out medals to women who achieve a DIY vaginal delivery while making disparaging comments about women who are «too posh to push,» but the fact remains that if a baby is born healthy and a woman has had a positive birth experience, the prospect for their future health and relationship is equally good, and for most mothers, that's all that really matters in the end.

Similarly, in a secondary analysis of 1,862 women enrolled in an early versus delayed pushing trial, a longer duration of active pushing was not associated with adverse neonatal outcomes, even in women who pushed for more than 3 hours (28).

When I pushed back and pointed out that 1) some women experience supply issues if they attempt to restrict calories enough to allow weight loss, even when they really * want * to lose weight and 2) not everyone is, in fact, overweight, and those women will indeed need to eat more to produce enough milk without causing nutritional problems for themselves they instead argued that it's such a small amount of extra food that it's inconsequential.

Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.

A coalition of women's groups and elected officials pushed for public campaign financing saying it will mean more women are elected to public office.

Gillibrand's push for the WFP is eyebrow - raising in part because of Cuomo's efforts to establish the Women's Equality Party as a permanent party through the next election cycle and Gillibrand's own backing of electing more women to public ofWomen's Equality Party as a permanent party through the next election cycle and Gillibrand's own backing of electing more women to public ofwomen to public office.

After de Blasio released his executive budget on May 7, council members have continued to push for an increase in funds for libraries, parks, NYPD headcount, senior citizen services, women's health services, city - funded school lunches for all students, and more.

More broadly, the push for the women's agenda has trickled up to the governor's race, where Democrats have formed a ballot line to focus on women's issues.

Gillibrand, a national leader in the push to elect more women, praised the efforts of 21 in» 21, making the point that in order for more women to get elected on the federal level it is imperative for there to be a pipeline of women elected officials at the local level.

He, however, insisted that for this to be achieved, more needed to be done to empower women and the private sector to push the development agenda of the continent.

Those same numbers crunched through a model that shows a few more younger voters and more women turning out for the Democrats despite slightly less white turnout for Clinton still pushes her to a four - point lead.

In accepting Ms. James» support, Ms. Niou vowed to push for more opportunities for minority and women - owned businesses, often called MWBEs.

Other members followed Johnson's lead, some forcefully pushing their priorities that included funding for the summer youth employment program, increased contracting for minority - and women - owned businesses, senior services, health coverage, and more.

PIVOT members are also meeting with Assembly woman Addie Russell to push for more state funding to fight heroin addiction.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, citing a Saturday appearance in Seneca Falls - the birthplace of the women's right to vote - told the crowd the country is changing and more women need to run for office and be elected to see some of the issues marchers were pushing put into place.

This can happen more easily for pregnant women, since there is less space in the abdomen and stomach contents can more easily be pushed up.

Organ transplants have been savings lives for more than 60 years, and now, doctors are pushing the boundaries of transplantation medicine to help women who believed they'd never be able to have children.

And while there are still slightly more men than females participating in the games this year, this statistic is a push in the right direction, for gender parity and sports — especially considering that it was only in 2012 that women were granted access to participate in every Olympic sport.

Older women have more medical problems that can complicate delivery, have a more difficult time pushing a baby out, and are more likely to ask for Cs, he notes.

Men have more skeletal muscle in their upper body, which may account for why women have more difficulty than men in regards to completing push - ups and pull - ups.

A lot of mail order brides are educated women who might want to complete some more education or push themselves for better jobs.

These plus wonen have more «cushion for the man to push» adds onto the sexiness of a curvy woman.

There has been a big push over the last few years to bring even more roles to big screen for women.

Flanagan, known for more overt horror concoctions like Ouija 2, matches the physical agony of Jessie pushed through the razor - edged constraints to fetch a few drips of water with hallucinatory flashbacks that shades the woman's sexual identity (and subverts Gugino's objectified career).

The camera catches three lines of graffiti on the side of a building — «3 TOURS IN IRAQ BUT NO BAILOUT FOR PEOPLE LIKE US» — as it dollies past before panning around more than 270 degrees to the left and pushing forward as our working woman heads towards the front of the Texas Midland Bank.

«I think that's where some frustration comes in, deservedly or not, when films like Wonder Woman or, I wasn't a huge fan of it, but Blade Runner 2049, these more mainstream pictures, get pushed aside for these year - end Oscar movies,» he says.

Under the leadership of president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy has undergone an aggressive push for more diversity among its ranks, an initiative that has seen a large number of women (46 percent of a record 683 movie professionals in 2016) and racial minorities (41 percent of that same figure) asked to join the prestigious industry group in recent years.

As the discussion of sexual harassment in Hollywood continues - and campaigns including #MeToo and TimesUp push forward for everyday women - more and...

Canada's largest retirement fund manager is pushing to have more women on corporate boards because diversity makes for better business decisions, CPPIB CEO said