Sentences with phrase «rural women who»

She feels inspired through the divine spirit and loves working with rural women who have played a key role in helping her impart ethnic healing practices to people from all walks of life.

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I write that «the men shoved a large stick through Dina's vagina, creating a debilitating fistula — a common ailment among rural African women who have been raped or who suffered through traumatic childbirth without medical attention.»

Bonnie also pointed to a 1975 case in which a rural Virginia woman killed her own aunt - the person who had raised and loved her - because she believed her aunt had been possessed by the devil.

Some such experiences and actions can be seen in the successful action to re-conquer the earth by the farmers in Brazil or Madagascar, the initiatives for education and rural training of women in Senegal or in the exemplary battles of the South - Korean workers who demonstrated the possibility of constituting efficient inter-professional trade union organisations in the so - called emerging countries.

But our parliament is 24 % women, and there are plenty of women in larger cities who are professionals, although in the rural areas, there is more of a traditionalist approach.

The study also found men, people who live in cities and non-white Americans are more likely to embrace other worldviews than women, people living in suburbs and rural areas and white Americans.

In 2016, Jessica received the AgriFutures Rural Women's Award (Victoria), an award that identifies and supports emerging women leaders who have the desire, commitment and leadership potential to make a greater contribution to primary industries and rural communiRural Women's Award (Victoria), an award that identifies and supports emerging women leaders who have the desire, commitment and leadership potential to make a greater contribution to primary industries and rural communiWomen's Award (Victoria), an award that identifies and supports emerging women leaders who have the desire, commitment and leadership potential to make a greater contribution to primary industries and rural communiwomen leaders who have the desire, commitment and leadership potential to make a greater contribution to primary industries and rural communirural communities.

Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

«To support more opportunities for the girl child, especially those in the rural areas and those who were not opportune to go to school, we are planning on setting up six Women Development Centres to make it easier for them to access projects and programmes set up by government to better their living conditions», she said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

Another tidbit that supports this alternative explanation is that car accidents did not go up in pregnant women who lived in rural areas, says Rebecca Goldin, mathematician at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and director of STATS, a nonprofit statistical watchdog group.

These are mostly rural women and slum dwellers who are often dependent on aid to survive.

So now, when women in rural areas choose to deliver at home, if they have complications, there's no one who can take care of them, and they're more likely to die.

More than 30 small business owners in rural Texas were interviewed, among them a young woman who borrowed from her father to open a specialty cake business after being discouraged by a bank; and an elderly woman who built a restaurant and banquet hall, investing her own money when banks» terms were too difficult and interest rates too high, Mencken said.

Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.

With funding from WHO, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and colleagues from Makerere University in Uganda have conducted a study that includes around 1,000 women from rural districts of Uganda.

The decision, delivered by Justice Stephen Breyer, said that HB2 would place an «undue burden» on women's constitutional right to seek an abortion, particularly for those who are poor, disadvantaged, or living in rural areas.

Born in 1943 in rural Illinois, the woman who calls herself Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa was christened Mary May Gibson.

European women are different from those who live in rural areas and those who live in big cities.

Single women who live in large cities are much less romantic than their rural and suburban female counterparts.

A white woman growing up in rural America whose favorite hobby is horseback riding, might find it very difficult to find common ground with either a black or white man who was raised in Los Angeles.

That is more than double the 13 % that did so when we last asked about this behavior in 2005.16 Women are a bit more likely than men to conduct this type of research, those with a college education are more likely to do so than those who have not attended college, urban and suburbanites are more likely to do so than rural residents, and online daters are more likely to do so than non-online daters.

People in nearly every major demographic group — old and young, men and women, urbanites and rural dwellers — are more likely to know someone who uses online dating (or met a long term partner through online dating) than was the case eight years ago.

Discover the historical buildings and those men, women and children who worked in them over a 950 year period as you get to take a step back in time to learn more about what life was like in rural West Sussex.

However, it's not the ideal lesbian dating app for women who live in rural communities, or for those who live in some big cities where the app isn't supported yet.

Sophocles, the son of Sophilus, was a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Hippeios Colonus in Attica, which was to become a setting for W: hen it comes to dating women who are younger than you, which of the following do you find yourself saying?

His fourth film under his 20 - year ban is «an artful, surprising and thrillingly intelligent story about a few women trying to make a difference, forging bonds of solidarity in quiet defiance of the repressive, small - minded men in their rural village,» writes L.A. Times critic Justin Chang, who also finds «its insights casually profound.»

Parched Details: 2015, Wolfe Video Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A drama set in rural India that centers on four ordinary women who share the harsh lives of Indian women, including abusive and arranged marriages as well as widowhood.

In rural England, 1865, a woman who is trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man begins a passionate affair with a man her own age.

The story is relocated from Russia to rural England and focuses on a young woman, played by 21 - year - old newcomer Florence Pugh, married to a cruel factory owner, who embarks on a passionate affair with a rugged local.

Sky Atlantic's latest moody and mysterious crime drama comes from rural Australia and stars Elizabeth Debicki as a woman who returns home after 15 years to find her town in a struggle for survival.

Thelma (Eili Harboe) is a young woman from rural Norway who has moved to Oslo to pursue studies in biology at university.

Preer starred as Sylvia Landry, an African - American woman who travels north in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor black children.

Co-starring Domhnall Gleeson, it tells the story of a young woman named Eilis who moves from a rural town in Ireland to the bright lights of Brooklyn as she tries to follow her dreams.

Set in the 1950's, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the past.

Runoff (R for drug use) Rural tale of survival about a desperate woman (Joanne Kelly) who will to stop at nothing to keep a failing, family farm threatened with foreclosure afloat after her husband (Neal Huff) falls ill.

In Ingmar Bergman's feature directing debut, urban beauty - shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen - year - old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her.

For those who are young, or who were busy doing something important in the winter of 1994, a brief recap: Harding, a working - class young woman from rural Oregon, overcame her troubled past to become one of the nation's top - ranking skaters, but was frustrated when judges frequently preferred her more elegant competitors, such as Nancy Kerrigan.

Jennifer Merin: Switzerland's entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar is a compelling political drama set in 1971 in a quaint rural village where Nora (Marie Leuenberger), a conventional housewife and mother, facing gender oppression on every front, champions a burgeoning suffragette movement that challenges political and religious leaders who cited the Divine Order as reason to keep women in their place.

The film is set in rural Maine on a bright and magnetic 20 - year - old woman named Michelle Smith who lives with her mother Julie.

Zone of intervention According to its quinquennial strategic plan (2012 - 2016), WEDAT addresses to women and children / adolescents in Cameroon, with a priority for those who live in the rural area in the Adamawa, East, Far North, North, and North - West regions.

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

A Piece of The World tells the back story of the subject of artist Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting, Christina's World - Christina Olson of rural Cushing, Maine, a severely crippled woman who still leads a brave, productive life.

Residents of the rural West, many of the queens Burbick interviewed for the book are skilled ranchhands who were raised on horseback, capable of breaking horses and branding beeves women who have witnessed the waning of farm life.

As a biologist, she saw the problems that deforestation and soil erosion were causing in rural areas, especially for the women who do most of the physical work.

Most of the people involved with GBM are rural African women who, over the years, have planted nearly thirty million trees.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming - of - age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life.

I first saw drawing by Wilson in a group show at P.S. 1, where writers often mentioned her in the same breath as Amy Cutler, another artist who works on paper with plenty of white space, spare outlines, and a cast of young women in allusively rural settings.