Sentences with phrase «women in political settings»

The cheek kiss, which is often reserved for women in political settings, falls into a bit of a grey area, but many women in government have observed the greeting often provides an opportunity for hands to roam.

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Now, presidential and other executive - level government salaries are set by law and are not, in general, gender - dependent, but it is interesting to note that it is those Western nations that have somewhat lower political salaries that women have reached the highest elective echelons.

In many settings women individually or as a gender may wield considerable political power.

Joan Homovich, Delaware County Democratic Committee Vice Chair, notes «In 1848 the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted at the Meeting at Seneca Falls stating that the ground had been set for «grand movement for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women.»

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Regardless of your political views, I think we can all agree that this is a pretty special time and we should celebrate in that we have finally entered an era when women genuinely can do whatever we set our minds to, and be respected as equals in the process.

Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Incredibly relevant and relate - able to the political climate of equality that continues to make headlines in present day, Directors Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris and writer Simon Beaufoy set up an insightful and well balanced look to a defining moment for women's rights and eventually sexual identity.

When We Rise, which is set to premiere on Monday (February 27) chronicles the personal and political struggles, set - backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today.

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.

Joe continues to stray, right up to the Nobel ceremony — and the film's present - day section is set in the Clinton 1990s, when denying having sexual relations with younger women had become a political trope.

Art. 3: The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil and political rights set forth in the present Covenant.Art.

The recent political climate has spurred a proliferation of artist involvement in expressions of protest and resistance, from banners and signs used at the Women's March on Washington to works shared on social media or displayed in more conventional museum and gallery settings.

This reappraisal of the work of more than 100 women artists from Latin America or with Latino heritage — including Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Marta Minujín — set their work in the social and political contexts in which it was created.

In the New York Times of October 17, 1980, Hilton Kramer maligned Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, 1974 — 79 — an installation of thirty - nine place settings for historically significant and mythical women — as «art so mired in the pieties of a political cause that it quite fails to acquire any independent artistic life of its own.&raquIn the New York Times of October 17, 1980, Hilton Kramer maligned Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, 1974 — 79 — an installation of thirty - nine place settings for historically significant and mythical women — as «art so mired in the pieties of a political cause that it quite fails to acquire any independent artistic life of its own.&raquin the pieties of a political cause that it quite fails to acquire any independent artistic life of its own.»

In the 1990s, when political themed art works were favored, Currin brazenly used bold depictions of busty young women, mustachioed men and asexual divorcés, setting him apart from the rest.

In 2015, after learning of the disappearance of more and more Indigenous women and feeling a growing sense of frustration about the lack of political will to launch an inquiry into the issue, Tracie set out on a four - day 115 km run to raise awareness.