Sentences with phrase «women access to the job»

March 28, 2014 • Christine Lagarde says giving women access to the job market isn't just about equal opportunity — it makes economic sense.

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While women have drawn closer to men in access to education and jobs, we still face a stubborn gap in pay and advancement.

Setup: In December 2010 Minshew quit her job at the Clinton Health Access Initiative to run Pretty Young Professionals (PYP), a women's networking site she had started with three co-workers a couple of months before.

I — I do sweat the specifics, because I think they matter, whether one more kid gets health care, one more person finds a job, or one more woman entrepreneur gets access to capital to follow her dream — those just may be details in Washington, but it really matters to those people and their families.

Raven + Lily currently helps employ marginalized women in Ethiopia, India, Cambodia and the United States at fair trade wages to give them access to a safe job, sustainable income, healthcare, education, and a real chance to break the cycle of poverty for themselves and their families.

In most cases, women are living in low - income communities without access to quality education or job opportunities.

A poor women without a job, without money for a bus fare, without clothes for a job interview, without the possibility of obtaining childcare, without a steady roof over her head, without access to sterilising equipment or even the ability to readily boil water, can still (in the majority of cases) breastfeed her child.

Women need access to job - protected paid time off from work to care for their newborns and to establish breastfeeding.

Comment: Despite a range of attempts within the party itself and by the party in government I fear that it is now clear that without specific, binding changes to bring about equal access for women to the top jobs in business and politics we will not be able to achieve these fundamental goals any time soon.

«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all New Yorkers, ensure voting rights, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump administration.»

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

Prepared for the New York Women's Foundation, this brief finds that three years of state budget cuts have frayed the safety net during a time of growing need, making it harder for low - income women to access income and job supports as well as vital supportive services, and to secure jobs with a fuWomen's Foundation, this brief finds that three years of state budget cuts have frayed the safety net during a time of growing need, making it harder for low - income women to access income and job supports as well as vital supportive services, and to secure jobs with a fuwomen to access income and job supports as well as vital supportive services, and to secure jobs with a future.

«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable healthcare for all New Yorkers, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump Administration,» she said.

As she looks ahead to the November general election, the former chief of staff for Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh (D - Manhattan) said she planned on stressing the most important issues to voters throughout the district, including campaign finance reform, job creation and improving access to vital services, especially for women and seniors.

Former New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (D) had an extramarital affair with one woman who lobbied him about state business and another whom he recommended for a job, then tried to hide the relationships while giving his mistresses preferential access and treatment, prosecutors alleged in court documents unsealed Friday.

Those working in job posts that are predominately held by men are less likely to have access to schedule control compared to posts where men and women are equally represented.

In the absence of bilateral agreements between the Bangladesh government and the receiving countries, they are exploited in terms of wages, job security, work conditions, accommodation, Leave, Medical, Period of contact, Maternity leave for woman workers, Working hour, access to social welfare service etc..

To sum up, comparable data for 1990 and 2009 on youth reveals that low - educated women are in more disadvantage than in the past while low - educated men are worse in the quality of jobs they access to but not in terms of unemploymenTo sum up, comparable data for 1990 and 2009 on youth reveals that low - educated women are in more disadvantage than in the past while low - educated men are worse in the quality of jobs they access to but not in terms of unemploymento but not in terms of unemployment.

Most of the women were illiterate and her job entailed helping the women get access to grant money for their agrarian business needs.

Think about it: most women feel they are getting the shaft regarding how much they are paid as compared to men, and they have needs that don't apply to men as much (gynecological care and access to certain kinds of jobs).

Women are so new in terms of access to jobs and education, and a lot of the work I've been interested in has to do with grappling with that history.»

As I wrote to him this morning, so much to say and so little time to say it if I want to get a few paintings done before I have to go back to my day job as an underpaid adjunct (Davis mentions the role of practical bread and butter issues and economic inequities for women as in some sense replacing Linda Nochlin's historical focus on women artists» earlier lack of access to academic training.)

«We know — for example, from the 2010 Ornstein report — that racialized women have a harder time than any other category of lawyers: they have access to fewer articling positions, struggle to find full - time jobs and end up in lower - earning practice areas.

It is an indicator of gender inequalities relating to access to jobs and development, and reflects social norms that determine the type of career men and women choose to pursue, as well as the roles they play in childcare.

The most extreme elements of the Republican Party are not focused on jobs or on the economy, but on taking away women's access to basic health care — cancer screenings, birth control, and annual exams.

And because there simply isn't a network of health - care providers capable of taking over this job if Planned Parenthood were denied funding, this means hundreds of thousands of women, if not millions, would over time lose access to birth control.