Sentences with phrase «women in this country as»

The 2008 study, conducted by U.S. behavioral scientist Shannon Goodson, found that professional women in countries as diverse as the United States, China, Sweden and New Zealand, uniformly failed to do enough to advance their own careers.

Not exact matches

In 1909, Peters was one of about a thousand women across the country to graduate as a doctor of medicine.

Factors such as literacy and education rates, health and survival rates, women's participation in government and more are correlated with pay gaps in different countries.

Between 700 and 900 women die each year in the U.S. from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth, and the rate has risen even as it has declined in other wealthy countries.

Pointing to examples such as seeing «moral equivalence in Charlottesville» and treating women «like they're pieces of meat,» Comey explained that Trump's inability to «respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country,» most notably the truth, make him unfit to be president «on moral grounds.»

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While the experiences of women entrepreneurs in the developing world are as diverse as the countries they inhabit, since the difficulties facing a small woman - owned business in Vietnam looks nothing like that of a new venture in, say, Turkey or India, there are some common challenges.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

Agrawal: We're very worried about the state of our country and our rights as women and our reproductive rights, and in order to not move backwards, we are playing our part to make sure that our voices are heard.

The Russian leader joked about rape as recently as February, has boasted that his country's prostitutes are the best in the world, and has put down women for menstruating.

So he's confident the country will prosper as more and more women excel in the workforce.

But, as Ms. Clark points out, she was the first woman to be elected premier in British Columbia and the longest serving female premier the country has seen.

WBENC is proud to offer the Dorothy B. Brothers Scholarship to its Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) as an opportunity to receive up to $ 11,000 in tuition to attend some of the best executive education programs in the country.

«We are proud to honor 20 Top Corporations for their world - class leadership in partnering with women's business enterprises to sustain innovation in this country and fuel our economic growth,» said Linda Denny, president and CEO of WBENC, the leading authority on and advocate for women's business enterprises (WBEs) as vendors and suppliers to the nation's leading corporations.

My sister and I emigrated from Iran back in 1984, and just knowing that in the world there are countries, such as Iran, where women have no rights, and they can't work let alone run a corporation, and certainly aren't treated as equals... this is what fuels us, keeps us passionate and pushes us forward.

The fertility rate as measured by the number of live births per woman in Europe has dropped substantially in a number of countries according to The Economist.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Clark, named the country's least popular premier last week, can't seem to connect with women (female voters are twice as likely to vote NDP in May, according to polls).

The right to vote in this country for women and minorities would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, yet less than 100 years ago neither group enjoyed this right.

I am impressed, and really wish more Americans would focus on highlighting the positive aspects of all respectable men and women in this country and in the world, instead of trying to dig up every mistake, to slander and degrade as if we ourselves were perfect.

when you live in America, knowing that the culture here is very superficial and most things are based on looks (and not just here but other countries as well) you can't be surprised that people will find a fully bearded woman strange.

There are equal number of male and female in this country, minus off gays and lesbians, each man can only have a woman as wife, if not, there'll be not enough women to go around.

Then again, perhaps I should make a new category for arranged marriages, as one PhD I knew (a woman in the USA) had agreed to her parents going back to the home country of India to find her a husband.

She added: «We recognize that there are difficulties women face with pregnancies, especially in cases where the unborn child may be born with a life - limiting disease, but we do not believe that abortion is the answer, and that funding for a free abortion in another country is short - sighted as it neglects any mention of an offer of counselling or care for the woman.»

I see it in the way people love the pictures I post of my daughter, but get really quiet when I start talking about the issues that will directly impact her as a black woman in this country.

Perhaps that is why our country was founded on the principle of women not being allowed to vote for their own president, they didn't have as much going on up in their heads as men.

The Christian peer Baroness Cox — who in 2011 attempted in the House of Lords to enact legislation called the Arbitration and Mediation Services Equality Bill, to protect women living here from the effects of Sharia as it is already allowed to be practised in this country — reacted to this démarche with some alarm.

And it's natural for someone from South Asia to draw a comparison to Islam, since there is a comparatively small Christian or Buddhist population... Orthodox Christian women also cover their hair and dress in loose, modest clothing, as do Orthodox Jews — but none of them have sects or countries, to my knowledge, that require a burka, for example.

He stresses that «nobody in their right mind would want to see in this country the kind of inhumanity that's sometimes been associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states; the extreme punishments, the attitudes to women as well».

The church and the pope are responsible for two murders of women who died because they needed an abortion in catholic countries (Ireland and The Dominican Republic) Just as you people cry out against «abortion» and then murder doctors and women and bomb clinics, I hope somebody will start crying out against your beloved «religious freedom» and then...????

We all know of instances in which racial minorities, women, and colonized countries — as soon as they have gotten into a position of independence and power — have become more oppressive than those who had oppressed them.

One of the stranger accolades he offers is in pointing to China as a country making positive strides in women's rights and equality.

I do believe that as a nation we will be in trouble if we do not pay some attention to the ever growing gap in wealth in this country, government is VITAL to a healthy nation, and supporting a woman's right to chose is NOT a communist decision.

In muslim countries where it is illegal to own a Bible the women are treated as second class citizens.

UNESCO statistics show that as the status of women rises in a given country the birth rate declines.

Her case drew the attention of the whole world, voices of protest and support arose in many countries, Filipino women demonstrated at home and in Hong Kong as well.

We witness examples of such devastation in our countries such as through the use of chemical pesticides and even fertilizers, the deporting of our mineral wealth by mining transnational corporations, the exploitation of our workers, women and children and the ill - effects of drugs, arms sales and even of some types of tourism.

As a muslim women living and growing up in a Muslim country it makes me so mad and upset when I see some girls sitting in US and Europe and preach that in Islam and under Sharia Law woman & Men are equal and that women are not forced to do anything they do not want to do.

Communications and travel make people aware of the harm done to workers, women and children and to the environment — in rich countries as well as poor.

The day that Islam advocates all freedom for all women I will have no problem with more Mosques, in the meantime, because this belief / Creed / Religion as it is now (and has been over thousands of years under the world's noses) women are still not allowed to vote, women are not doctors, they do not study to become lawyers, owners of companies, presidents of countries.

The negative impacts of globalization such as deregulation policy are also felt by women in developed countries.

In recent years, transborder sex trafficking has been accelerated, and more and more Thai women are sent abroad by trafficking organizations: Japan is the country receiving the largest number of trafficked women from neighboring Asian countries and they are treated as sex slaves.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

At one point sending a Jewish student to a Russian university meant that his or her parents had to pay to send three non-Jews as well In this country Jewish professors are now commonplace, and many have become university presidents — two Jewish women among them.

In non-western worlds, in 3rd world countries women are still used as slaves, their property of men, women do not have access to contraception, to give birth to children in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spouseIn non-western worlds, in 3rd world countries women are still used as slaves, their property of men, women do not have access to contraception, to give birth to children in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spousein 3rd world countries women are still used as slaves, their property of men, women do not have access to contraception, to give birth to children in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spousein safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spouses.

i could give a rats ass about religion... obama has proven to be anti american as well as the largest national security threat to our great country and the brave american men and women who serve in the military providing all of us freedom.

When a womans body is no longer her own, as in Taliban countries, and here in the U.S., if some of these Republican contenders have their way, how good is their religion's way of interpretation?

What is the only thing capable of making 40 % of the country fvcking stupid enough to think the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake: (i) paleontology (ii) archeology (iii) biology; or (iv) religion It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

Older people and the better educated have thought about it more, as have women, while people on the east coast have given it less attention than people in other parts of the country.