Sentences with phrase «women in public life»

By the early 1970s, the role of women in public life was starting to change, and a movement for safe and legal abortion emerged.

In this post, the organisation's Secretary - General Joan Sawe discusses how money creates barriers for women in public life and highlights some measures that could be taken to reduce them.

How do women in public life talk about everyday sexism and engage men in that dialogue?

The former chick - lit author, who is married to Metallica's manager, admitted taking class - A drugs, focused internet attention on the treatment of prominent women in public life and started up her own social media site.

The report proposes funding for nonprofits that support women in public life, workshops on running for office for female college students, more mentorship opportunities and a dedicated staffer for the Women's Caucus.

Pamela Parker, who chairs the Tory Women's organisa tion, told delegates she opposes positive discrimination and suggested that the lack of women in public life is caused by a shortage of women putting themselves forward.

(d) amending the clause on the role of women in the home and encouraging greater participation of women in public life;

This is shocking, and goes against all the rhetoric that we hear so often about the need for more women in public life.

And down all the centuries of Christian witness, there have been women saints and martyrs and mystics and missionaries, women in public life and women in families and women in politics and in teaching and in religious enclosure who have been central in the life of the Church.

I was privileged to be invited to Westminster Hall, where, in an extraordinary moment of British history, the Pope was to address Members of Parliament and a great gathering of men and women in public life from across Britain.

«Judged purely as a piece of political management, Osborne deserves plaudits, as does his deputy, Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury.But credit will also go to a less well - known figure — potentially the most powerful black woman in public life, Sharon White, the Treasury's director general of public spending.

Not exact matches

In her latest book, Women Who Work, she revealed that she had initially resisted making her family life public, but gave in after she understood that photos of them would be available to the world whether she wanted them to be or noIn her latest book, Women Who Work, she revealed that she had initially resisted making her family life public, but gave in after she understood that photos of them would be available to the world whether she wanted them to be or noin after she understood that photos of them would be available to the world whether she wanted them to be or not:

In the U.S., women are already responding to the 2016 presidential election by pursuing their own runs for office: since November, more than 4,500 of them have signed up for She Should Run, a new organization that trains women for public life.

Holvey said she was inspired to go public again as more and more women have spoken out about harassment in their own lives.

Communities of faith are not bereft of the Spirit, and therefore of the possibility of renewal through the efforts of men and women who dare to act in the hope that the Church can contribute more to our public life than merely another interest group.

I live in a state where a woman here is on a crusade to have the Potter books removed from every public school library.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

In a powerful climax to the document, he gave public thanks to women, hinting that perhaps this was slightly overdue from the Church, that it came from the heart, and that it carried a genuine desire to ensure that women should not be slighted or marginalised within the Church or by Christians in everyday lifIn a powerful climax to the document, he gave public thanks to women, hinting that perhaps this was slightly overdue from the Church, that it came from the heart, and that it carried a genuine desire to ensure that women should not be slighted or marginalised within the Church or by Christians in everyday lifin everyday life:

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

Because women live lives that are considered public property, to be legislated and debated and discussed, rather than merely lived, there's not a woman in the United States who is not facing criticism for her choices.»

«Separation of church and state» = suppression of the church in the public square = atheist «Universal health care» = redistribution of wealth = communist «Women's rights» = feminism = redistribution of wealth = communist «CHOICE» = abortion = low respect for life = «population control» = communist

Whatever legal and public policy solutions are reached in the coming years, Christians need to find a social, political and religious way to secure the well - being of women and children, involve fathers in the lives of their children, and support gays and lesbians who want to establish committed relationships and receive the benefits and blessings that go with this commitment.

Some of these women make a public confession, but others are ashamed to do this, and in silence, as if withdrawing from themselves the hope of the life of God, they either apostatize entirely or hesitate between the two courses» (Against Heresies 1:22 [A.D. 189]-RRB-.

It is odd that the Bell case, in many ways as searingly important as Captain Dreyfus was to Zola's generation of Frenchmen, has so far barely raised a whisper in English public life, while disputes about homosexual clergy or women bishops command attention.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

(9) He emphasized the need in our society for women to be more involved in social and political life and thus to bring greater compassion, altruistic love, and respect for life into the public arena.

«There's a double pressure for women who live their faith in public life,» she said.

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

It follows that woman in public and social life may legitimately aspire to no other role than that of a true helpmate to man.

(In the past, men like Alcott and Emerson were the public spokesmen for the simplicity ideal, but of course women did much of the work that made simple living possible.)

The woman lives in a building owned by someone else and decides to hang religious symbols in an area not part of her rented space in public view and them asking her not to is interfering with her «private» life.

I can't stand the woman and all she stands for in her public and political life, but I think we should let that particular e-mail find it's way into the black hole of «this was no one's business.»

On many counts it seems extraordinary that it took place at all: a man and a woman in public; a Jew and a Samaritan; a transient and a citizen; one offering living water and another caught in the ceaseless rounds of drawing water at the well.

Again, the evasion is readily applicable to feminist theology: «I can accept women as equals and co-workers in the public world, as long as my wife remains a traditional homemaker; I'll support the ERA, but I won't have to change my own life style; it's all right for women to become ministers, but my congregation will never call one as pastor; it's OK for a few women to come into our system, as long as their presence requires no major structural changes.»

Yet many public spokesmen for the religious right now tell Evangelicals — including Evangelical women who have spent their lives teaching Evangelical girls and young women to resist the sexualization of their identity and worth in a hook - up culture, and Evangelical men who learned at Promise Keepers rallies that racial reconciliation is a moral imperative — to «grow up,» to stop being «panty - waists.»

hmmmm ok so the media feels this one kid's life is so much more deserving of being in the public eye, than say; an elderly woman shot in the head by a stray bullet from a drive by?

The document specifies certain values on which decisions have to be made in the public sphere, including respect for human life, and for the family built on marriage between a man and a woman.

The statement is in response to a Haaretz report Monday that the museum would have separate visiting times for men and women in response to the requests of the haredi Orthodox public to view the exhibit, titled «A World Apart Next Door: Glimpses into the life of Hasidic Jews.»

As a mother, wife, a black woman, wife to a black man, and a public defender living in Charlotte, these recent events consumed my mind so much that I even lost my appetite at times.

A police report that became public last month, after a sexual assault case against Bryant was dropped, reveals that on July 2, 2003, shortly after the incident in a Colorado hotel room that changed his life, Bryant told investigators that Shaq had paid women up to $ 1 million to remain silent about sexual encounters.

It would be interesting to see if this fear of the opposite sex is occurring elsewhere, like Europe; I can't find any research on it but it's clear that Europeans generally have much healthier and relaxed attitudes about sex, and European women are eager to participate in public life.

I believe that the assumption that women should be the main carers of children is the fundamental barrier to the further advancement of women in work and in public life — not just one barrier, the main one.

This inspiring, real - life news story describes an amazing way women came together to support a woman's right to breastfeed in public.

But many women don't live in communities where BFing in public is supported or accepted.

Ultimately, both candidates have refreshing views on public breastfeeding, especially in an era when women already face stigmas in all areas of life.

Article 11 (2) In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public liIn order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public liin dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public liin public life

I rarely see women breast feeding in public where I live (Columbus, GA) but there is a BF group that meets twice a week at the library, BF classes offered by the hospitals and community, and not one but TWO baby - friendly hospitals in town.

Be thankful we live in a place where people can have clean drinking water to mix w / the formula and that women who nurse can do it in public w / o feeling degraded.

If you're a woman in London you're more likely to be unemployed, you are more likely to be living in poverty, you are more likely to experience danger on the streets and on the public transport systems than anywhere else in the UK.»