Sentences with phrase «woman and equalities»

Although the main thrust of the book is women and equality in the home and workplace, the message goes beyond that.

She served as trade and industry secretary and minister for women and equality from 2001 to 2005, and economic secretary to the Treasury.

On Monday Mr O'Mara resigned from the Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee after he joked about having an orgy with Girls Aloud.

Feminists tell Chair of Women and Equalities Committee their concerns.

The House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee today (20 March 2018) recommends the new «use - it - or - lose - it» 3 months benefit, available to fathers and second parents in their baby's first year.

Sarah Champion, who made one of 63 frontbench resignations in a few days after the EU referendum, agreed to return to the fold as shadow women and equalities minister.

Also, some of the Lib Dem workers who have come forward say they took their concerns to other senior members of the party: specifically Paul Burstow (at the time the party's Chief Whip) and Jo Swinson (at the time the spokesperson on women and equality).

Ms Harris said the situation had gone beyond her personal allegations and had escalated into a debate over whether women and equality matter to the party.

Technology makes the conversation about women and equality in the church inclusive and accessible.

Cross-government work to increase integration, participation and equality are absolutely essential and, as the Minister for Women and Equalities as well as the Home Secretary, I am passionate about them.

Baroness Northover, the UK government's Women and Equalities spokesperson replied: «My noble friend will know that the [gay] Marriage Bill sought to protect the position of religious organisations and that this is a matter for the Church of England.

Oral Questions - Culture, Media and Sport, including Topical Questions; Women and Equalities Business Statement - Leader of the House Backbench Business -(i) Protecting future generations from violence against women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris White

He is a member Executive of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers and was elected onto the parliamentary women and equalities committee in December 2016.

Bridget Harris, who announced she was leaving the party yesterday, said the situation had gone beyond her personal allegations and had escalated into a debate over whether women and equality matter to the party.

The Liberal Democrats have welcomed the plans, with women and equality spokeswoman Lorely Burt arguing it was essential «if we are to address the persistent problems affecting women at work».

Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Justine Greening said: «Flexible working is already happening in many other sectors — it's vital we ensure it is happening in our schools too so we continue to attract the best and brightest into teaching.

Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities said in response to yesterday's labour market statistics:

Delegates included current Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan, former Secretary of State for Wales and former Brexit Minister David Jones, Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald, Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon, Shadow Minister of Women and Equalities Sarah Champion, the SNP's Justice and Home Affairs spokesperson Joanna Cherry QC and the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Baroness Sheehan.

More especially I would emphasize embodying the principle of equality in the tradition through renewal of culture and religion - equality between man and woman and equality between castes and peoples.

Maria Miller has ably put the new Women And Equalities Committee on the map and Meg Hillier is following in the footsteps of another former Minister Margaret Hodge in making the Public Accounts Committee the nightmare gig for permanent secretaries and chief executives.

Lib Dem northern Ireland spokesman from 2005 - 6, spokemans on small business, women and equality since 2006.

[Women and Equalities chair] Maria Miller is calling for us to be even stronger and to do that we need extra resources.»

Rachel Reeves has gone to DWP from shadowing the chief secretary role, Liz Kendall will have a seat at cabinet, shadowing the care and older people brief, Gloria de Piero has been promoted to head women and equalities, and Emma Reynolds will attend cabinet as shadow housing minister.

He is being accompanied by Vera Baird, the solicitor general and deputy minister for women and equality Barbara Follett.

Shadow Minister without Portfolio and Deputy Party Chair Jon Trickett MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Gloria De Piero MP

Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP

The Lib Dem women and equalities minister Jo Swinson has told ITV News she took the complaints about former chief executive Lord Rennard seriously.

May I say how intriguing it is to see that the Conservative Front - Bench team for women and equality consists of 75 per cent.

Once the show began, the messages in support of women and equality didn't stop: Natalie Portman, while presenting best director with Ron Howard, noted how only men had been nominated (Lady Bird filmmaker Greta Gerwig was a high profile snub); presenters Jessica Chastain and Geena Davis, respectively, also made jokes about male acting winners giving their salary away to make up for the gender pay gap.

The report is being launched today (12 December) in the Houses of Parliament, with speakers including Women and Equalities Committee chair Maria Miller MP and fellow committee member Gavin Shuker MP.

Justine Greening, the Minister for women and equalities spoke about the gender pay gap in a statement: «Britain has the lowest gender pay gap on record, there are more women in work than ever before, more women - led businesses than ever before and there are now women on every board in the FTSE 100.

Women and equalities select committee says there has been a lack of transparency over impact of the 2015 spending review

«Women don't want more spin and communications professionals, they want fundamental changes to government policy,» shadow women and equalities minister Yvette Cooper said.

Shadow Women and Equalities Minister Sarah Champion has launched her Dare2Care report, which calls for earlier sex education for pupils as part of a range of measures to tackle child abuse and violence in teenage relationships.

We agree with the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee's recent Gender Pay Gap report that we should be obliging employers to offer all jobs on the basis that they can be worked flexibly unless they can demonstrate an immediate and continuing business case against doing so; and that the government should extend its requirement for UK companies to publish data about their gender pay gap to all firms employing more than 150 staff, from April 2018.

If you look at the government's track record on women and equalities, it's actually really bad.

Questions - Transport, including Topical Questions; Women and Equalities Business statement - Leader of the House Backbench business — Finance (No. 4) Bill Adjournment debate — Armed Forces covenant

Last year, an inquiry by the parliamentary women and equalities committee found that 29 per cent of 16 - to 18 - year - old girls had experienced unwanted sexual touching at school, and 71 per cent of pupils that age regularly heard terms such as «slut» used towards girls.

The Minister for women and equalities Justine Greening has said: «We have more women in work, more women - led businesses than ever before and the highest proportion of women on the boards of our biggest companies.

Women and Equalities Committee report will be welcomed by young women according to Girlguiding charity

«Women and equalities as a brief is massive and it covers everything.

by Loren Cunningham I have been a longtime supporter of women and equality in the church, but kept it on the downlow for such a long time for all kinds of reasons.

De Piero, who was shadow minister for women and equalities in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but quit as a shadow junior minister before the leadership challenge to Corbyn last summer, has a new role as shadow justice minister.

Greening replaced Nicky Morgan as both education secretary and minister for women and equalities on July 14 2016 after Theresa May won the Conservative Party leadership election and became prime minister.