Sentences with phrase «women less access»

Dr. Hal Lawrence, president and CEO of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said he is concerned that a funding cut to Planned Parenthood clinics could give low - income women less access to birth control that can help them guard against unintended pregnancies in the face of the Zika threat.

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Women in general have less access than men to capital (including venture and private equity investment and government loans), markets, and networks.

It reports that women are «more likely than white men to report doing more office housework than their colleagues» while they «have less access to glamour work than white men do.»

Understanding the Landscape: Access to Capital by High - Growth Women - Owned Businesses, research commissioned by the National Women's Business Council, recently released that female entrepreneurs start companies with 50 percent less capital than male entrepreneurs.

Meanwhile, many studies maintain that women have significantly reduced access to capital and encounter less favorable loan rates.

Gays can't get married, women make less money, millions of children don't have access to healthcare, and cops can stop and frisk anyone they feel like in some places.

This debate took place in the aftermath of the awful «Access Hollywood» tape, which revealed that Trump had made comments that could be described (charitably) as bragging that starstruck women had consented to being casually (and brutally) pawed by him, or (less charitably) as a confession of serial, unrepentant sexual assault.

Women have long expressed a desire, passion and capability to join the highest ranks of the culinary industry, but continue to lack the same access, opportunities and support as their male counterparts — with less than a quarter of females chefs in leadership roles.

I think that another factor that we have to consider is that low - income women in the US probably also have less access to quality maternity leave, and are less able to afford to take unpaid time have.

If you're really a feminist, why not spend less time thinking about yourself and more time thinking about the women around the world who lack lifesaving access to the modern medicine you have the first - world privilege of refusing?

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

Rural women and their infants are at increased risk of disease, and have less access to fuel, clean water, and electricity needed to prepare alternatives to human milk.

The findings suggest that the implementation of maternity care practices supportive of breastfeeding vary based on the racial composition of the area, which means women living in areas with higher percentages of blacks might have less access to these services.

Despite these positive statistics, a woman in Africa is more likely to be illiterate or less educated than her brothers, most likely to be married off at an early age, have less access to agricultural extension support and does not own the land she cultivates.

... The first grants will support Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»

Regulation of the private funding of political parties, such as caps on political donations, can also help promote gender equality because women usually have less access to private campaign money.

Women who have a cardiac arrest are less likely than men to receive potentially life - saving procedures such as angiography to look for blocked coronary arteries or angioplasty to open them, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.

Additionally, the research notes that those women who have access to flexible work arrangements (such as reducing the number of hours they work) are less likely to retire, indicating a desire to continue working.

The study, published online in the open - access journal PLOS ONE (The Public Library of Science ONE), indicates that women who speak in vocal fry are perceived as less attractive, less competent, less educated, less trustworthy, and ultimately less hirable.

However, the authors concluded that socially isolated women fared worse because they had less access to medical care.

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.

Elderly men across Europe and the US spend less time on housework than elderly women, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health.

The first thing I learned in my research was that being a man or a woman does not give a person more or less access to masculine or feminine energy — we all have both energies within us.

Research finds that women are more likely to use birth control and less likely to have unintended pregnancies when barriers are lifted in contraceptive access.

This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater access to Advanced Placement courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have less access to college - preparatory courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.

While the benefits of energy access are less pronounced on a day - to - day basis than a well - lit childbirth, energy access plays a critical role in empowering women.

When society becomes less child - friendly, it also becomes less mother - friendly, limiting access for women who already find it challenging to get out and participate in society in a meaningful way while raising the next generation.

Typically, women have less access to the kind of informal mentoring that will occur naturally between male lawyers who will spend time chatting in the hallways, are together on the golf course or at a hockey game or have lunch or drinks after work.

However, as a practical step in improving access to justice, this decision will result in more people — in particular, women, disabled people, First Nations people and immigrants, who are less likely be able to afford hearing fees — gaining access to the justice system without having to compromise their everyday cost of living.

We did not observe a difference in pregnancy rates in women with either pharmacy access or advance provision; the adjusted risk of pregnancy for both treatment groups was not significantly less than 1.

Cervical cancer used to be a top killer in developed nations — and it remains a major cause of death in countries without widespread health - care access — but in the last 50 years, cervical cancer deaths fell by 70 percent in the United States, transforming cervical cancer from the leading cause of cancer death among American women to a less common, nearly preventable cancer.

While women who used condoms or other less effective forms of contraception were more likely to become pregnant than women who used hormonal contraception, women with advance provision or pharmacy access were not more likely to abandon contraception or switch to less effective methods.

Women who have served finite sentences or have been remandees have less access to formal or statutory post-release programs when in the community, compared to parolees and women with community - based order obligatWomen who have served finite sentences or have been remandees have less access to formal or statutory post-release programs when in the community, compared to parolees and women with community - based order obligatwomen with community - based order obligations.

Women are also seeing less access to contraceptives — all claims for birth control (LARC, injection, pills, and condoms) dropped from 2011 to 2013.

«The new law will cover more women, increase access to reproductive health care, and ease the disproportionate health care burdens on women, who still earn less than men but often face higher health care costs.»

The Texas Senate has yet to debate its somewhat less draconian budget draft, but whatever the differences between the chambers that remain to be hashed out before final passage, it is clear that thousands of low - income and uninsured women will have little or no access to health care for at least the next two years.

The report also praises the Affordable Care Act, which «eases the disproportionate health care burdens on women — who continue to earn less than men while also often facing more health care costs — and increases access to reproductive health care.»

It is worth noting that two - thirds of Republicans support investing more money in research on the virus and investing more money on preventing the spread of Zika in the U.S., but slightly less than half support helping women in areas in the U.S. with outbreaks of the virus access reproductive health services.

Even as women have gained better reproductive healthcare access, adoption laws have become less favorable for birth mothers, advancing the time after birth when a mother can relinquish — in some states now within twenty - four hours — and cutting the period to revoke consent drastically or completely.

«Women in Texas need more access to affordable, high - quality health care — not less.»

The ad highlights that McConnell is siding with bosses who want to dictate their employees» access to birth control — saying, «McConnell voted to let companies pay women less than men for the same work.

Men are less likely to seek help than women, with only 1 in 4 men who experience anxiety or depression accessing treatment.

Despite the significant impact of maternal depression on mothers and children alike, maternal mental health needs are often neglected or undiagnosed.18 Prevalence rates of maternal depression are high among low - income women due to the greater challenges they may face related to financial hardships, low levels of community or familial support, and societal prejudice.19 In fact, the prevalence of maternal depression among low - income women in the United States is double the prevalence rate for all U.S. women.20 At the same time, these women are less likely to receive treatment or be screened for postpartum depression.21 Studies show there are clear racial and ethnic disparities in who accesses treatment in the United States, even among women of the same general socio - economic status: In a multiethnic cohort of lower - income Medicaid recipients, 9 percent of white women sought treatment, compared with 4 percent of African American women and 5 percent of Latinas.22

Although the ACA repeal bill does not specifically repeal the no - copay birth control benefit, women will still find it more difficult to access birth control because the bill makes coverage less affordable by:

That's why, McDonald - Mosely says, «we need to be making access more ready and more available to women of color in this country instead of less available, which is what «defunding» would do in this circumstance.»