Sentences with phrase «support among women»

Clinton — who held a slim lead in polls leading up to election day — scored strong support among women, minorities and college graduates, but that wasn't enough to overcome Trump's unexpectedly strong performance.

McMullin earns 21 % support among women voters.

In the last few weeks Cuomo has signed the sex assault legislation, securing his support among women's group; established a special prosecutor for cases of civilians who die at the hands of police; and spoke at the NAACP National Convention in Philadelphia.

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.

Not exact matches

Bain study co-author Julie Coffman found that scarce female role models in senior positions and limited support from supervisors eroded aspirations among mid-level women.

It's tempting to pull out those subgroups and draw conclusions about, say, support for a candidate among Latinos or women.

«There's a greater urgency among women investors to use their growing financial clout in support of other women and to invest in the future they want — rejecting outdated views about sacrificing the potential for investment returns or forgoing their own goals in order to do so,» Krawcheck said in a statement.

While the company does employ a good number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics, those groups are not well represented among Uber's top leadership and technical positions and instead skew heavily toward support and operational roles.

And there's a lot more support between and among women, to offer ideas, insights, suggestions, encouragement — as well as from a number of men who recognize that not every entrepreneur or successful entrepreneur's going to look the same as it may have 30, 40 years ago.

«The first step is to raise awareness among women and minority entrepreneurs — or would - be entrepreneurs — about what tools exist and work together to increase engagement by providing access to key resources, education and support.

The «Critical incidents among women entrepreneurs» study cited above, claims that «the main challenges they (women) face in their professional context are: difficulties concerning acceptance, lack of affective and social support, difficulty operating on the international market, problems balancing personal, family, and professional matters,» among others.

Ministers hastily announced funding for Northern Ireland women to undergo terminations in England on the NHS in order to avoid a revolt among Conservative MPs which threatened to undermine support for the Queen's Speech.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

2 catholics, 2 mormons, 1 black, 1 woman, and Ron Paul among others even though the media keeps tropping out the same old dog about how Chirsitans can't support a Catholic or a Mormon — why does CNN and MSNBC hate Christians and whites so much??

Nonetheless, many fundamentalist groups are more popular among women than among men, and women support these groups because they encourage men to take a more responsible role in heading families than is often the case in fragmented or changing social circumstances, and women often play powerful roles behind the scenes.

Working with IJM, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship before that, Toyama - Szeto has intentionally built support networks among her colleagues, friends, and fellow women of color — people to advise her, pray for her, and hold her accountable.

The women's ministry leader was responding to the wave of Christian reactions to news that LifeWay Christian Stores had stopped selling books by Hatmaker — one of the biggest writers and speakers among today's generation of evangelical women — after she spoke out in support of same - sex marriage.

While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).

When a young woman gets pregnant out of wedlock, rather than come around her in love and support, with promises to protect and provide, we more often than not cast her out like a sheep among wolves.

• Among employed men, fathers» use of parental leave is also strongly influenced by organizational culture, including their company's commitment to caring values, level of «father friendliness» and support for equal opportunities for women; and also the fathers» perceptions of support from top managers, and of work group norms that reward task performance vs. long hours at work (Haas et al, 2002).

Research shows lower C - section rates among women who receive doula support as well as increased satisfaction with their birth experience.

Correlates of partner support to abstain from prenatal alcohol use: a cross-sectional survey among Dutch partners of pregnant women.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

These structured services include case management, referrals to existing community services, parenting and child education and social support to pregnant women among others.

She set up The Positive Birth Movement (PBM), a global network of antenatal discussion groups, with the aim of improving childbirth and giving women better access to support and information, not anticipating the huge appetite among women for more positive messages about birth.

Home birth advocates have cited several studies supporting the safety of home births among low - risk women.

Some of the potential causes of poor breastfeeding outcomes among black and Puerto Rican women include breastfeeding ambivalence (7), the availability of free formula from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(8), a high level of comfort with the idea of formula feeding (9), limited availability and lower intensity of WIC breastfeeding support for minority women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers women include breastfeeding ambivalence (7), the availability of free formula from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(8), a high level of comfort with the idea of formula feeding (9), limited availability and lower intensity of WIC breastfeeding support for minority women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(8), a high level of comfort with the idea of formula feeding (9), limited availability and lower intensity of WIC breastfeeding support for minority women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers (12).

These women supporting work at the Nature Museum are among many in the Chicago region making a difference to nature and conservation.

Dr. Long participated as a panelist during the U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding and is featured as an expert in the Office of Women's Health It's Only Natural campaign to improve breastfeeding rates among African Americans.

«A Dutch study of more than 500,000 women reported that planning a home birth does not increase the risks of perinatal mortality and severe perinatal morbidity among low risk women provided they were supported by well trained midwives and a good transportation and referral system» (quote article 24).

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Clinical support can make the difference in exclusive breastfeeding success among working women

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Here's the issue: the entire four - day message of the Convention was not about expanding Trump's base of support among minorities or women (the 2016 GOP platform says nothing about providing «equal pay for equal work»; it was not about proposing substantive solutions to problems facing the nation; it was not even about making amends with traditional conservatives and moderate Republicans to achieve party unity (the Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, the Bush family, and all former Republican nominees for president, except one, did not attend).

Organisations working among marginalised groups such as young people and unmarried women will be a particular focus for the scheme, which will also support agencies that lobby their governments for legislation and policies that support access to services.

He is among a handful of Republicans in Congress to support same - sex marriage, and was the only GOP member to support the Equal Rights Amendment for women.

The Republican National Committee voted unanimously Friday to reaffirm the party's commitment to upholding the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, upending party efforts to grow support among younger voters.

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 years old.

It also found that support for the unions is stronger among women (73 %) and negative perceptions of trade unions are receding — demonstrated by support for the link highest amongst 18 - 24 year old (87 %).

The President, who called for the strengthening of the AU Advisory Board on Corruption to make it more proactive, also proposed to enlist the support of parliamentarians, women associations, the media, business community, faith - based groups, the youth, educational institutions and traditional rulers among others in the campaign.

Her support is even among men and women.

He then proceeded to thank the women in his own life for their support, among which included his wife, sister and campaign coordinator, all in attendance.

Emily's List, a liberal group that provides campaign support for progressive women in politics, said Monday that Katko will be among the initial 15 Republicans that the group targets in 2016.

He had overwhelming support among young people and women, who saw him as their ticket to a better Bradford.

At the same time, Cuomo is marshaling the support of women's groups and organizations to not just promote the agenda that has stalled in Albany, but drive turn out among women voters.

The Liberal Democrat conference has today supported tough new action to improve the party's representation among women and ethnic minorities.

Franken's support among his fellow Democrats cratered today as a host of female Democratic senators called upon him to resign and more women came forward with allegations against him.

Thursday's poll showed equal numbers of men and women supporting Spitzer and Spitzer, while Stringer was ahead among white voters and Spitzer led among blacks.

Rather than speculate as to how low a ceiling this places on Tory support, and whether it is lowest among ethnic minorities, northerners or women, Labour should be seeking to complete the decontamination project that the last general election confirmed we require.