Sentences with phrase «working roles for women»

After working tirelessly for the European Commision and on various aid projects, Occhio launched SeeMe in 2012 with the end goal of securing working roles for women leaving women's shelters in Tunisia.

Not exact matches

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.

The preparation for her role as «Wonder Woman» got her into boxing and mixed martial arts; she was working out six hours per day doing fighting choreography, horseback riding, cardio interval training, and strength training.

Her story is inspirational for both men and women — but how helpful is it really to hold Sandberg or her C - suite counterparts up as role models for the majority of working moms?

I can not help but think of the work of John Henry Newman or Yves Congar when reflecting upon a participatory theology, as the Church struggles to move toward more inclusive roles for laity, for women, for national cultures.

It could still be argued that these roles impose strain on womanly nature; that they are not what women are made for; that they show a certain lack of respect for God's work of creation; that in fulfilling them a woman is likely to treat men maternally, which will impose undue strain on masculine nature; and that the woman's womanly dignity and worth are to some extent at risk while she does these jobs; but it could not be maintained that she and those who gave her her role have sinned by disobeying God's command.

If your view on roles were correct, Paul's greetings in his letters would have been full of chastisements of these women for stepping outside of their roles, not the laudations which he gives them for their great work within the faith.

The subtitle is a bit misleading — it's not really about «homemaking» or «women's work» (both phrases can make me a bit nervous)-- it's really for men and women and it's about knowing the role — and the holiness — of the daily work in our lives.

Advocates of women's suffrage and women's ordination fall into this camp, as do Beverly Wildung Harrison (in some of her work), Shulamith Firestone and others who argue not just for the transcendence of gender roles but for technological and social means of neutralizing sexual difference.

The EOC wants to see caring roles shared, so that women and men share responsibility for work at home, and wider society and employers support people who look after their children or relatives and go out to work, making it possible to balance both and enjoy life.

Slavery, they note, radically altered what work and family roles looked like for black women.

A little bit of flexibility can help enormously in expanding the role of both parents in the care of the child — work flexibility for men is of primary interest to women, just as flexibility for women is of primary interest to men.

Only when midwives and obstetricians start working in partnership, and valuing each other's roles in supporting women, do we see women offered genuine choices, and offered the best care for themselves and their unborn baby (One example of research supporting this: Colter 2014, «Midwife - Physician collaboration — a conceptual framework for inter-professional collaborative practice»).

«We have a dynamic role model in the White House, a black woman who gets the idea that she can go to work, be a lawyer and still provide milk for her baby,» said Napiera Loveless, co-founder of MamaTotoMatema, a Cincinnati - based organization committed to educating and encouraging leaders and health care professionals to adopt different approaches to promoting breastfeeding in African American families.

To narrow the gender gap at work, women need support to combine their productive and reproductive roles, and this support must incorporate the time and structures necessary for continued breastfeeding.

It's time to ask ourselves why, as we've redefined the role of women in the work - place over the past 25 years, we have been much less able to do the same for men on the home front.

The columnist eventually stood down from his new role on the board of Office for Students (OfS) but only after days of revelations about comments he'd made about women's breasts, working class students and gay people.

In Marnie Shaffer's piece, entitled «Gender Dynamics and Women's Changing Roles in Johannesburg's Somali Community,» women interviewed by the author insist that their choice to work is not for empowerment, but for necessity when their husbands can not Women's Changing Roles in Johannesburg's Somali Community,» women interviewed by the author insist that their choice to work is not for empowerment, but for necessity when their husbands can not women interviewed by the author insist that their choice to work is not for empowerment, but for necessity when their husbands can not work.

Melissa DeRosa, the first woman to serve as secretary to the governor — the equivalent of the chief of staff post for a president in the executive chamber — recounted that despite her resume as a top official in Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office and role in the state campaign for President Barack Obama, she has been defined in the media by her relationship to her lobbyist father and husband, a former Cuomo spokesman who now works for Uber.

After acknowledging and thanking Glor and then saluting local native Emily Pfalzer for her role with the Olympic gold medal - winning USA Women's Hockey team, thanked the «changemakers» in the room who helped him for the past 12 years «leading our city out of the past, and now it's up to all of us to work together to determine our future.»

Finally, I wish to entreat our Working Mothers not to abandon the long cherished traditional role of providing services and care for the family at all times despite the challenges that confront the workingWorking Mothers not to abandon the long cherished traditional role of providing services and care for the family at all times despite the challenges that confront the workingworking woman.

My work as a community activist on issues such as affordable housing, my background as a member of the Democratic State Committee, and my experience working for Democratic elected officials such as Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, since my days in college, leave me with a deep appreciation and respect for the role working men and women play in making this the Empire State.

In the beginning, this was very hard for me, more even than for him, as I struggled very much with my double role as a mother and a working woman.

Her work focuses on the role stress and depression play in smoking behaviors for both men and women.

«Current women engineers become a flight risk when they experience a career plateau with few advancement opportunities, poor treatment by managers and co-workers and a culture that stresses taking work home or working on weekends with no support for managing multiple life roles,» Fouad said.

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Issues such as harassment in the work environment or lack of flexibility in scheduling to make room for childcare can still play a large role in whether women pursue and remain in some academic areas.

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.

I hope that more women will question the presence of these additives in the glucose drink and take a more active role in working with their healthcare providers to decide if the current OGCT is the best option for them.

While most women work with us for a short time, Ruth has grown into a permanent role with us; today, she's a mentor to the other women on our team, she's our master labeler, and she now manages fulfillment, too!»

Now that you get the key roles of glucose and insulin, the next post will explain how they work differently for women with PCOS.

FLOW the Label For Spring 2017, FLOW the Label's designers, sisters Viktoria Balaniuk and Veronika Vez, spoke to the convergence of conflicting women's roles, from the traditional housewife to the working activist, by mixing aspects of traditional Ukrainian clothing — embroidery, ruffled aprons and Volant dresses — with trench coats and shirting to represent the emancipated modern woman.

Years ago, television and movies depicted women to be housewives, working in the kitchen and having and taking care of the children, which was true, but also shunned and was uncapping for anything outside of married women dating sites this role.

But this film would have worked either way: It's a celebration of a tough woman's rise from her role as a powerful man's spouse, and it's a case for why reporting should never be beholden to the whims of the White House (as the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Times put it, the role of the press is to serve «the governed, not the governors»).

In the 1960s, the performer used his considerable clout in his field to co-create the Stuntman's Association, a group which would fight to safeguard the rights and working conditions of the men and women who risked life and limb for Hollywood.As he grew older, Farnsworth thought it wise to cut back on the athletics and to seek out speaking roles.

Rosanna asks her peers if it is possible to balance work and a personal life and why aren't there better roles for women 30 +.

On top of that, he mentioned the quality of her work and her efforts to improve diversity on her sets, including her decision to hire all - woman directors and ladies for her important creative roles for season one of her OWN Network show Queen Sugar, something she plans to continue in season two.

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

Amidst all the «police work,» Terry falls for a woman (Tessa Thompson, in a predictably thankless role) and eventually adopts a young kid caught up in a nasty crime scene.

This 1980s - set Los Angeles comedy series stars Alison Brie (Mad Men, Community) as Ruth Wilder, an out - of - work actress who finds herself with the unexpected role of a lifetime after being invited to audition with a group of eccentric women for the first - ever women's wrestling TV show — GLOW.

Comedienne Amy Schumer has drawn a lot of eyes (and sometimes ire) for her Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, which lampoons, subverts and raises the ground under many traditional American roles women find themselves pigeonholed in at work,...

And in the»70s, she became a positive role model for single and working women when her own show debuted.

Talented actress Sally Hawkins plays the role of Maudie, a spunky woman with severe arthritis who takes up housekeeper work for a reclusive man.

She convincingly handles the skating work (with the help of a double) and the role of a complex woman who was ridiculed publicly for trying to knock Kerrigan (Caitlin Carter) out of the competition but whose own past clearly played a key role with an abusive mother and husband.

and hard - working Sebastián Lelio (Oscar - winner «A Fantastic Woman») offers two movies with strong roles for women: Julianne Moore in the English - language remake of «Gloria» and Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz in lesbian romance «Disobedience.»

It's an expansive role for Connelly, who obviously serves as a proxy for all of the women living the nail - biting reality of being married to men doing dangerous work, but who has a considerable character arc to work with.

At a roundtable interview, DeWitt discussed her research for the role, how playing a real - life person informed her approach to the character, what it was like meeting the real Sue Webb, what she enjoyed most about working with Renner, what she learned about journalists and their determination to get to the truth of their story, her new film «Men, Women & Children» directed by Jason Reitman, and her upcoming projects: Joe Swanberg's «Digging for Fire,» Sam Raimi's remake of «Poltergeist» with Sam Rockwell, and a small part in the TV mini-series «Olive Kitteridge.»

For those unfamiliar, the show follows the Pfeffermans: Maura, née Mort, a former Los Angeles pater familias (the great Jeffrey Tambor, who just picked up his second consecutive Emmy for the role) who, after 20 years of secrecy, has decided to openly live her life as a woman; Maura's ex-wife; and her three adult children, who are all working through their own sex -, gender -, and identity - related questions as weFor those unfamiliar, the show follows the Pfeffermans: Maura, née Mort, a former Los Angeles pater familias (the great Jeffrey Tambor, who just picked up his second consecutive Emmy for the role) who, after 20 years of secrecy, has decided to openly live her life as a woman; Maura's ex-wife; and her three adult children, who are all working through their own sex -, gender -, and identity - related questions as wefor the role) who, after 20 years of secrecy, has decided to openly live her life as a woman; Maura's ex-wife; and her three adult children, who are all working through their own sex -, gender -, and identity - related questions as well.

Out of his eight Oscar nominations, the only golden man statuette he has won, for 1992's Scent Of A Woman, was for a role that already smacked of parody of his best work in the 1970s.

The film's story can be summarized this way: veteran actress Marilyn Hack (O'Hara) is working on the World War Two melodramatic indy film, Home For Purim, playing a dying Jewish woman from Dixie, and gets wind of a possible Oscar nod for her roFor Purim, playing a dying Jewish woman from Dixie, and gets wind of a possible Oscar nod for her rofor her role.