Sentences with phrase «women participation during»

He noted that the Commission, in collaboration with gender - based organizations such as the UN women, had been taking steps to encourage political parties to increase women participation during electoral contests.

Not exact matches

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

Of the STEM disciplines, tech is the only one where the participation of women has actually decreased in the last 20 years, explained Judith Spitz, a former Verizon CIO of 10 years, during the 2016 Propeller Innovation Festival in Hoboken, NJ.

During 2016, we've tracked participation in our accelerator programs and have made measurable progress to increase participation by women and underrepresented minorities within our applicant pool, mentors, and staff.

Overall, 372 (178 from the control group, and 194 from the intervention group) of the 500 women surveyed could be followed and answered all of our telephone calls during the second stage of our survey (Table 3); that is, a participation rate of 74.4 % in the overall population and a rate of 71.2 % and 77 % in the control group and intervention group, respectively, and the rest of women were lost sight of.

Covariates included mother's age, education, smoking during pregnancy, and participation in the federal nutritional support program for Women, Infants, and Children; and infant's gender, race, birth weight, congenital malformation reported at birth, live birth order, and single or multiple birth.

Your participation in this study is voluntary and anonymous, and will help inform medical practitioners about women's transitions to motherhood and the mental health risks that may arise during and / or after pregnancy.

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU - EOM) monitoring team during the 2016 election noted that various factors account for the low participation of women in front line politics and for that matter the governance process, chief amongst which is «hostile political terrain» that results in mudslinging, name - calling and insults or use of vulgar language.

The participation of women in the labor force grew rapidly during the 20th century, from less than 20 percent of women in 1890 to well over 50 percent today.

During the 1990s, the pattern of women's labour market participation more closely resembled men's and the gap between men and women's wages had narrowed.