Sentences with phrase «speak up for women»

ReFrame, she said, is now part of the Time's Up coalition, a campaign announced at the first of this year to speak up for women's representation in all fields.

«I keep on being told that my campaign is niche, that I am some sort of oddity because we are speaking up for women, but actually women make up half the population and its so important their voices are heard.

Could they all be speaking up for a woman's self - definition?

Not exact matches

«The movement has been building for a long time; now, it's time to see how powerfully women will speak up on their own behalf in politics, entertainment, etc.,» says Leader - Chivée.

While that was the theme of the evening, with most celebrities wearing black in solidarity with the Time's Up movement and speaking about the issues, Winfrey's rousing message celebrated the people who've fought for women and marked the beginning of a new era.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

«Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.»

There just has to be a protected space for women to speak up.

«If you speak up at some length at work, even if you are in a senior position, you will be seen not only as gabby but also as incompetent,» the authors warn women in another post for The Daily Beast.

A women's march was being organized in Washington, the teenager wrote, to protest the incoming administration of President - elect Donald J. Trump and to speak up for gender equality.

Being an ally for women experiencing sexual harassment goes beyond just speaking up in their presence.

Lean In is fantastic for reminding women that they have to speak up — and that it's time for partners and families to do more to help a woman's career.

On behalf of all the people who want to speak up but can't: Please, make Amazon a more hospitable place for women and parents.

It's a call for women to take space at the table, raise their hands, speak up and step up.

In this episode, we spoke to Evolvin» Women founder Assia Riccio, who shares with us her thoughts on starting up a social enterprise, and how Dubai Startup Hub's Market Access program helped open doors for her in terms of taking her business forward.

People may chuckle over misbehavior rather than calling it out, for example, or they may ostracize harassed women, privately ashamed of not having spoken up.

We are called to be light and salt, and one way to do this is to stand up and speak out FOR BIBLICAL VALUES and against sin... yes, of course we should be preaching / teaching / living God's «theology of marriage» in our own marriages...... but God has clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and therefore, when our government says it's otherwise, we should be light and salt and speak up, and vote accordingly.

For any woman psychically tuned up to use all her capabilities for orgasm all the time, sexual relations with males would become, comparatively speaking, «breaks» in the «normative» female - to - female patteFor any woman psychically tuned up to use all her capabilities for orgasm all the time, sexual relations with males would become, comparatively speaking, «breaks» in the «normative» female - to - female pattefor orgasm all the time, sexual relations with males would become, comparatively speaking, «breaks» in the «normative» female - to - female pattern.

How crucial, then, for women today to stand up and speak.

In the run - up to the launch, the Archbishop of Canterbury urged Christians to «stand up and speak out» for women and girls who are victims of violence.

I (Ed) don't regret speaking up for immigrants, against heinous comments about women, and many more.

In the past, evangelicals have been uncomfortable with women joining this conversation, but I think it's time for us to speak up.

Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Roy Moore, Louis C.K., Al Franken, and plenty of men who aren't famous enough for me to recognize their names in the articles announcing their transgressions: Over the last month, as women and men have come forward to speak about sexual harassment and assault, their separate portraits of their abusers have added up to a pointillist portrait of sexual sin.

I try not to put too much pressure on myself to speak up as the token «Christian feminist» on issues like these, but after reading multiple blog posts and articles this week from Christian men about women and contraception, I decided to add my two cents as a pro-life woman of faith who supports affordable access to birth control for women.

Pro-life evangelical women have long spoken up to advocate for women's positions in the church and society.

Katie and Martin put him up for a month or two before he went off again, on a journey which took him and his wife widely over German speaking lands during the next fifteen years, and left her a crippled old woman in her late thirties when he died.

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).

As recently as this week at Wimbledon, Murray spoke up about the inherent sexism of the All England Club scheduling two men's matches and only one women's match on both Centre Court and Court 1 each day, thus bumping often - compelling matches to less prestigious courts for no reason at all other than casual sexism.

With women's football very much on the up, and Albion set to ply their trade in the top tier next season, Buet spoke highly of the progress that the game is making and singled Albion out for special praise.

You might believe your wife is a strong woman and a staunch advocate for herself, but when the end approaches, she needs you to speak up and have her back.

Still, I agree many more women don't know how to speak up for themselves (and it can be in a kind and loving way vs. being a b*tch) and are not good at being direct and setting boundaries.

It takes a woman who is passionate about all of those things, and who unknowingly took the first steps of a journey that would ultimately lead to the founding of La Leche League International and a life devoted to speaking up and speaking out for mothers and babies around the world.

Tourists from around the world smiled at my daughter, and one Chinese woman who spoke no English even scooped her up for a cuddle.

I share my story for the purpose of educating women so that they feel encouraged to speak up and say «I am a survivor!»

I've taken everything I've learned, trained and supported thousands of women, babies and their families with for over twenty years in my private practice locally and around the world, to create this book and do my part in improving maternity and newborn care and experiences, by empowering women and their families to speak up.

As somebody who is a confident breastfeeder, I think it is my responsibility to speak up for breastfeeding mothers and to try and make it that little bit easier for the next woman.

Anywhere, let alone in an arena where it's already difficult for women of color to speak up and reach out because culture tells them not to do so.

In the workplace, the public sphere or in private conversations, women rarely speak up for themselves, tend to avoid conflicts and are less confrontational.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Disgraced Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was once considered an advocate for women's rights, encouraging women to speak up about abuse in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

For today, I'm grateful for the women who dared speak up against one of the most powerful men in the US & for Barbara Underwood, the brilliant woman who will be acting NY For today, I'm grateful for the women who dared speak up against one of the most powerful men in the US & for Barbara Underwood, the brilliant woman who will be acting NY for the women who dared speak up against one of the most powerful men in the US & for Barbara Underwood, the brilliant woman who will be acting NY for Barbara Underwood, the brilliant woman who will be acting NY AG.

Mrs Cameron, who has been an ambassador for Save the Children since 2011, visited a camp in the Bekaa Valley on Tuesday and spoke to women and children caught up in the violence.»

Molinaro also spoke up for Stewart - Cousins, even though she is from the opposing party, saying it was «inexcusable» that a «talented capable woman in leadership» was left out of the talks, which included devising a new statewide policy against sexual harassment.

Nick Clegg has ratcheted up the pressure on Chris Rennard to apologise for alleged instances of sexual harassment, even as he spoke openly about his own failure to protect the women affected.

Nick Clegg ratchets up the pressure on Chris Rennard to apologise for alleged instances of sexual harassment, even as he speaks openly about his own failure to protect the women affected

According to Whitehall sources Downing Street «just love putting a northern woman up on television to speak for the government».

While so many others were feverishly working the room or lining up for a chance to speak to Chuck Schumer, Reshma took the time to speak with an intern of mine, a young Palestinian American woman who was shy and felt a little out of place in the room.

Now is not the time for senior Lib Dems to dismiss the seriousness of harassment, nor to condemn these women for bravely speaking up, nor to criticise journalists for being self - appointed detectives.

The two writers pointed out that after The New York Times and The New Yorker shared the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service for their stories on Weinstein and sexual assault, «Schneiderman issued a congratulatory tweet, praising «the brave women and men who spoke up about the sexual harassment they had endured at the hands of powerful men.»

A day after being criticized for her reaction to political journalist and NBC News contributor Mark Halperin's alleged sexual harassment of female colleagues, «Morning Joe» cohost Mika Brzezinski issued a lengthy statement about the embattled journalist who was a fixture on her show, saying we are «witnessing a larger movement of women speaking up about sexual harassment because the fear of being dismissed or not believed is melting away.»

We see this unfortunate attack on the person of Mrs. Charlotte Osei as an attack on all women and see it a duty to attach our voice to calls by those who have spoken up until now for the Honourable Member to do the honourable thing by apologising to Mrs. Charlotte Osei and to all women of this country.