Sentences with phrase «women in their communities working»

A new study finds that girls are more likely to take physics if they see women in their communities working in science, technology, engineering and math.

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While working in the UN community in Geneva, founder Cynthia Salim noticed it was difficult to find high - quality women's workwear.

They're doing it through dozens of workshops held in community centers, libraries, YMCA's, and municipal buildings, where anywhere from 40 to 60 women (and sometimes a few men) work their way through a two - hour curriculum that teaches them how to figure out how much they should be paid, how to make their case to an employer, and how to gracefully exit a negotiation that might not be going well.

The working women who clean their homes and mind their kids live in a shanty town outside the gated community.

The festival in turn funds the Red Ants Pants Foundation, which gives grants to develop leadership roles for women and to support rural communities and working family farms and ranches.

Allyson: «To echo what Craig is saying, and one of the reasons we love working with Craig, is he's been such an ally to us and to the women in tech community.

One of the women in our community was carrying a baby for her neighbor whose husband died so that the mother could carry her other baby and continue to work the fields so that their family could continue to earn an income.»

WOMEN make up 49.5 per cent of the working population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics» Working Population Community Pworking population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics» Working Population Community PWorking Population Community Profile.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youtIn tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youtin diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

As part of its commitment to investing in the community and partnering with women - and minority - owned businesses, Starbucks is also working with Rachel Bernier - Green, owner of Laine's Bake Shop, to supply a Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownie to the store in Englewood.

The first of these stores is set to open in early 2017 in Baltimore, MD, where Starbucks has been working with local community, civic and business leaders with the collective goal of addressing the opportunity gap facing the city's young men and women.

He is also a Director of Cameco, one of the world's largest uranium producers and Chairman of the charitable organization Educating Girls of Rural China Foundation, which works to transform the lives of women and communities in rural areas of western China by providing access to education.

The Women's Leadership Circle (WLC) is an inclusive program that works to promote increased diversity in the B.C. business community.

Perhaps she is your work colleague or friend, a standout woman in your community, or possibly yourself?

We represent more than 35,000 working women and men from every sector of the economy and from every community in the province.

The day is part of a growing series of events that was originally spearheaded by investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and moved forward by Jess Lee of Sequoia Capital, who along with their women friends in venture wanted to work more closely with the far larger — and growing — community of women founders that has begun to form in recent years.

As a co-founder of Women in VC, she has built a community of over 300 women working in venture in the NYC, Bay Area, and LA communiWomen in VC, she has built a community of over 300 women working in venture in the NYC, Bay Area, and LA communiwomen working in venture in the NYC, Bay Area, and LA communities.

The Feb. 20 attacks against the two religious properties forced the apostolic vicar of Benghazi, the rest of his Franciscan community, and the religious men and women who lived and worked in the diocese to be evacuated to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Most Mormon women of my generation are college educated (actually were my mother and grandmother), working women or if they are at home, are active in their schools, communities, etc. while they raise their kids.

And they work tirelessly out in the community, empowering each woman to use her gifts to make space for God in her family, her friendships, her work and her sphere of influence.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioIn fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

So, in those times, a woman was not really allowed to work for herself nor would she be expected to be a ward of the community along with whatever children she had.

[7] Many theological students, especially women, African Americans, and Hispanics, regularly and vigorously object that their «theological education» is in important respects inappropriate to the faith communities to which they belong and to the social and cultural worlds in which they expect to live and work in the future.

Primarily working in Uganda, Just One purchases directly from local artisans who are mostly women and then also donates a portion of the profits back into the communities where they work and live.

This is a higher proportion of women than would be representative of either Israel or Rome in a comparable group during the first century A.D., and gives evidence that the equalitarian spirit of Jesus was already at work in the Christian community.

The Diocese of Portsmouth is well served by lay and ordained Christians, among them both men and women priests, bringing compassion, insight and creativity to their work in communities, parishes and chaplaincies.

Women and men, living and working together in harmony and equity, can build stronger, more creative religious communities and societies.

Her community and student mentoring work have been recognized by the YWCA, who inducted Ms. Bazán to the Academy of Women in 2010, and by Working Mother Media in New York as well as Bennett College for Women.

Her work contributed to fundamental changes that occurred during her lifetime in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth, but, because she was a woman, she could not participate fully in the scientific community of 19th - century Britain.

I see this in the medical / dental community of which I am part, that either women participate fully in their professions and have no children, or they have a family and their work comes second.

This translates into an admonition to black women to avoid the self - destruction of hearing a disproportionately large burden in the work of community building and maintenance.

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Coordinated by the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), these days are dedicated to celebrating the work of women and men in country and towns who are striving to create a fairer food system for their families and communities.

Kathleen Wood, moderator of The Food - service Council for Women panel presented the Beacon Award to City Harvest's CEO, Jilly Stephens for her hard work to deliver rescued food to 500 soup kitchens, food pantries and other community food programs in New York City - free of charge and focused on ensuring that high - need communities receive more fresh produce.

I spent time this weekend wondering how I will manage homeschooling while working from home; and often consider how to be attentive to the needs of my girls and still be true to myself in terms of what I feel I want to offer the larger community of birthing women.

She worked as an independent midwife in the community supporting women through pregnancy, birth and in the postnatal period and doing many home births in close collaboration with other professionals such maternity care assistants, obstetricians and GP's.

Sheryl holds a B.I.S. in Women's Studies in Communication from George Mason University, and she has worked in Communications as a human resource specialist and quality improvement trainer, community health trainer and supervisor, technical editor and writer, publisher, and as a writing and public speaking teacher in home school cooperatives.

Lactation Educator Counselors may work with pregnant women and their families in community perinatal health programs such WIC.

Which is why I want to call attention to what is happening in our AP community: As much as we try to be welcoming to every AP parent, there is still judgment passed among us — the woman whose birth ended in a Cesarean, the mother who can not breastfeed, the father who came to AP later and with a history of spanking, the lower - income families in which both parents must work, the parents who do not take their baby to bed with them, and so on.

She was honored in 2005 where community leaders, including a generation of women who became mothers and social activists under her guidance, honored Katsi's leadership and extensive body of work.

She has worked with pregnant women, their families and birth community in New York City for a decade.

When not searching for new homes for the school, she works as a midwife at a community health center in the East Bay, where she enjoys working with women and teaching the next generation of midwives.

However, you are lashing out at a community of women who are working hard to give their babies the best start possible and completely ignoring the huge number of women and babies that die in hospitals that far exceeds that of homebirths... Trying to clean the speck out of my eye while you've got a flippin tree in your own eye.

Sally Millar is a self - employed community midwife and since 1994 has worked with women in the West of Ireland who choose to birth at home.

Finally, in the evening panel, there were presentations by several women on the work that they are doing to help women in specific communities, including Aboriginal communities and moms who have had their children taken away from them.

As a community midwife working with women who choose home birth, this care I am describing is the way I practise midwifery but it is also possible in a midwifery - led unit or with a Domino scheme.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change