Sentences with phrase «working woman in government»

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Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen acknowledges that gaps in employment and wages do exist, but says government has been working on designing settlement programs to improve opportunities for immigrant women and their children.

A classic work on leadership for business men and women, government leaders and all persons in positions of authority.

Reacting to the review, the CBI called on the government to assist companies in increasing the representation of women with more free childcare and promoting flexible working.

Supporting women affected by violence The Austrian Federal Government committed to addressing complex social policy issues in their 2013 - 18 work programmes.

The new parental benefits are among a host of measures in the 2017 budget that the government touts as helping families, and particularly women, by giving them more flexibility in juggling work and their families.

We are delighted to work with proactive business and government leaders in B.C. on their commitment to leading the way in diversity and sharing best practices,» said Laurel Douglas, CEO of the Women's Enterprise Centre and co-founder of the WEB Alliance of Women's Business Networks in B.C. «Through exposure and resources shared at We for She, we aim to empower participants throughout the province.»

In the Council's pre-budget submission to this committee we urged the government to boost Canadian productivity by increasing female labour force participation, supporting women in STEM, enabling seniors to work for longer and helping Canadians navigate the changing job markeIn the Council's pre-budget submission to this committee we urged the government to boost Canadian productivity by increasing female labour force participation, supporting women in STEM, enabling seniors to work for longer and helping Canadians navigate the changing job markein STEM, enabling seniors to work for longer and helping Canadians navigate the changing job market.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

The agreed conclusions negotiated by all States urged governments at all levels, the general public and the private sector to address women's economic empowerment in the changing world of work.

A recent example of just such suspicion and mistrust took place in August, when an anti-trafficking nonprofit called Agape International Missions (AIM) came under fire from the Cambodian government for purportedly working with CNN to stage a smear campaign against Cambodian women.

When my wife sees Bachman or Palin flapping their traps unintelligibly on TV she says they are hurting other women's hard work to be taken seriously in government.

Analysing government figures, Save the Children concluded more than 870,000 women looking after a child a home would rather be in work instead.

Farmers, local governments, and businesses in the Peruvian Amazon are working to conserve forests, build climate resilience, and strengthen the role of women farmers.

Even if women are done with middle aged men, they still need them to be doing the lion shares of the work in the economy and pay the taxes to fund the government socialist programs that benefit women at the expense of men.

The Environmental Working Group tested infant formula and found, «For 1 in 10 cans of all food tested, and 1 in 3 cans of infant formula, a single serving contained enough BPA to expose a woman or infant to BPA levels more than 200 times the government's traditional safe level of exposure for industrial chemicals.»

Governments should enact imaginative legislation protecting the breastfeeding rights of working women and establishing means for its enforcement in accordance with international labour standards.

She has had the opportunity to explore child birth from different perspectives by: developing and teaching Prenatal Yoga classes, caring for pregnant social high risk and new immigrant women at the Northeast Health Centre, and by working in Nunavut as a Maternal Newborn Health Services Consultant for the Government of Nunavut.

As most of the world's women still breastfeed, weakening the Maternity Protection Convention (MPC) would make it harder for governments to promote breastfeeding in the work place, depriving women who want to breastfeed of their rights.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo has promised to fulfill a 30 % representation of women in its government as well as work with the 7 parliament to pass the Affirmative Action Law which will ensure equal participation of women at all levels.

For 75 years and in over 90 countries around the world we have spent our time thinking about how to help women and men develop enterprises to work their way out of poverty, and how to help them hold their governments to account to ensure they have a fair chance.

A woman has been found alive after six days in a collapsed building and rescuers are working to free her, a Kenyan government official said Thursday.

«This isn't about trade union leaders - this is about dinner ladies and teaching assistants and people in local government who feel as though they've worked hard for 30 years and suddenly are being stung at a late stage in their career - predominantly low - paid women,» he told the Independent on Sunday.

She also promised she will work in support of the regional minister and other traditional authorities in the region to ensure issues affecting women such as adolescent girl marriages are dealt with therefore they should «be patience and have confidence in the government.»

Because if we want to protect those things we care about, like generous pensions and decent healthcare, and buy the best equipment for the brave men and women who fight in our armed forces, all of us are going to have to confront the costs of modern government — and cap working age welfare bills.

First was the cold - blooded murder of Gloria Okon, an international drug courier, that was working for powerful government officials and men and women in high places and that was about to spill the beans when General Muhammadu Buhari was in power in 1985.

Cuomo also criticized a reporter when she asked about his plan to address sexual harassment in state government and has defended his hiring of former Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, who reached a settlement with a woman who accused him of harassing her while he worked for Cuomo's economic development agency.

«To the contrary, we believe that it is in the interest of good government and working women that there is full accountability and transparency about workplace sex harassment and that there should be full investigations of accusations of workplace harassment.»

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Chair of the women and work commission, Baroness Prosser, said: «If government, trade unions and business continue to work together, I believe that we can make a real difference to the lives of millions of working women in this country.»

But actually in the last Labour government, increasing maternity leave, rights at work, introducing the national minimum wage disproportionately helped women and children, child poverty targets — things like that delivered actually tangible changes to peoples» lives.

The government says women in this situation represent a small minority of those denied recourse to public funds but insists it is working to help women.

Given that women are usually responsible for looking after children and household purse strings, the government needs to look at how to make sure their system works for everyone in a family.»

You can be extremely proud of your work in Government - as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, as Minister for Women and as Minister for Disabled People.

«We believe that it is in the interest of good government and working women that there is full accountability and transparency about workplace sex harassment and that there should be full investigations of accusations of workplace harassment,» Allred said in a statement issued a few hours before Silver's.

Hoyt left state government last year and the Buffalo News later reported that he'd reached a secret settlement with a woman working in state government who accused him of sexual harassment.

Our mission, as members of the KDD, is to educate ourselves about how government works, what issues are going on in our own communities, mentor young people in civic engagement, and to get more women elected.

Despite the Government extolling the virtues of people working longer, older teachers, particularly women, feel under - valued and are often pressurised to leave their jobs well before their pension age, the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has heard today.

The truth is that the average public sector pension for women working in local government (and most such workers are women) is just # 54 a week.

«We immediately thought about the culture that has existed in Albany and we wanted to be able to empower women who work in politics, particularly young women and interns who head to their internships idealistic and wanting to be part of American government and are disillusioned by it,» she said.

Last week, New York's chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) made an effort to further jumpstart the conversation, calling on women and men who currently or previously work (ed) in government in Albany and throughout the state to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment or assault while on the job, citing the Legislature's history of quashing sexual harassment complaWomen (NOW) made an effort to further jumpstart the conversation, calling on women and men who currently or previously work (ed) in government in Albany and throughout the state to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment or assault while on the job, citing the Legislature's history of quashing sexual harassment complawomen and men who currently or previously work (ed) in government in Albany and throughout the state to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment or assault while on the job, citing the Legislature's history of quashing sexual harassment complaints.

It was the Conservatives who extended the franchise to the working class (Reform Act 1867) and gave equal votes to women (Representation of the People Act 1928)- David Lloyd George's government in 1918 only gave votes to some women.

TROY — «All I've ever done is try to be a voice for the people that are frustrated as I am with the nonsense in government, this nonsense that we see in the media,» the candidate said on talk radio after a major newspaper published another damaging front - page story about a woman who worked with him.

To coincide with the National Women's History Month theme — Working to Form a More Perfect Union: Honoring Lives in Public Service and Government — a keynote address by the Honorable Barbara A. Howe, Erie County Surrogate Judge since 1994, will be featured.

NOW - NY on Thursday announced a new hotline and web portal for men and women who work or have worked in New York government to report instances of sexual harassment.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Beyond that, men are more likely than women to go work in industry, which pays better than government or academe, where women are likelier to work.

If the answers were «yes» and «no,» respectively, they made it into a classified training course that, if they passed, led to a job in Washington, D.C. Those two questions were one way to join the roughly 11,000 American women who ultimately worked as government code breakers during World War II.

White, black, and Hispanic women were likelier to work in government and less likely to work in private companies than Asian women were, and less likely than men of all ethnic groups.

Authors of a paper recently published in the Journal of Technology Transfer interviewed 10 women who successfully transitioned into university faculty or instructor positions after working as corporate scientists or industry or government researchers.

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