Sentences with phrase «years since women»

Persons Day this year falls on Tuesday, commemorating 82 years since women were made persons under the law following the Persons Case.

To celebrate 100 years since women won the right to vote in the UK, the London Transport Museum has opened a major exhibition showcasing posters created by female graphic designers, illustrators and artists.

It's been 100 years since some women got the vote in the UK.

It's been 100 years since women earned the right to vote.

Yellow rose petals blanketed a patch of green grass at the grave of a suffragist and civil rights activist in Forest Lawn on Tuesday morning after a ceremony to mark 100 years since women won the right to vote in New York State.

It is right that we commemorate 100 years since women were first given the vote and the progress made by society towards achieving gender equality, but we must acknowledge the slow pace of progress and how far we still have to go.

It has been nearly 100 years since women won the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Just 30 % of MPs are women and the number of male MPs today is the same as the number of female MPs in the 99 years since women won the right to vote.

The 50 year old presided over a national service to mark 20 years since women's ordination in the Church of England.

It's been only a year since the Women's March made headlines when it overshadowed Trump's inauguration in early 2017, though it feels like a decade ago, given the sheer number of shocking political events that have transpired since.

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Since the Southern California native has been 13 years old, she has been called the future of women's snowboarding.

The Centers for Disease Control is monitoring roughly 280 pregnant women infected with Zika in the U.S., while Brazil has reported nearly 3,600 pregnant women with Zika since the start of the year.

One of the most important social trends since World War II is the percentage of working age women in the workforce, which has doubled in the last 50 years.

The 32 - year - old crown prince has made waves in Saudi Arabia for the economic and cultural reforms he has promoted since being named heir to the throne, the most notable reforms ranging from the much - vaunted «Vision 2030» to diversify the economy away from oil, to lifting a ban on cinemas and women driving in Saudi Arabia.

It is also a year in which, in the three biggest men's sports, women have made strides: the NFL added its first female ref and its first female coach (Jen Welter, whose internship with the Arizona Cardinals has since ended), and the NBA added its second female assistant coach (Nancy Lieberman) and its first female Summer League coach (Becky Hammon).

Which is a good thing, as so far only one woman has participated in Hacker School since its founding last year.

More women have entered Japan's workforce in the years since Abe launched his «Womenomics» effort, but they remain over-represented in part - time or irregular work.

It's been more than two years since Facebook and others in tech committed to hiring more women and underrepresented people of color, and so far, there is very little to show for it.

The rate of life - threatening complications has also soared since the 1990s, endangering more than 50,000 U.S. women a year.

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

It's been more than 50 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which mandates that men and women receive equal pay for equal work, but women are still fighting for compensation equality.

The last of the year's four tennis Grand Slam tournaments crowns its champions this weekend and women's favorite Serena Williams is looking to make history by becoming the first woman to win all four Grand Slam events in the same calendar year since Steffi Graf in 1988.

• Since its founding six years ago, 80 % of women in the global executive leadership program have been promoted or had responsibilities «significantly expanded.»

In the years since, Rahmé has created edgy and whimsical perfumes for men and women, all blended in New York by handpicked French perfumers and each recognizing a specific city locale, from Harlem to Wall Street and Madison Square Park to the High Line, the transformed elevated rail yard she «perfumed» five years ago.

Since launching Bioastra in 2008, she's grown her business from a one - woman operation to a team of 17 whiz - bang inventor - types; together, they've increased sales by 906 % in the last five years, landing the business at No. 82 on the 2017 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.

Their «No Ceilings Full Participation Report» identifies the significant gains women have made and the challenges that remain in the 20 years since the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing — where then - first lady Clinton called on the international community to ensure «women's rights are human rights.&rwomen have made and the challenges that remain in the 20 years since the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing — where then - first lady Clinton called on the international community to ensure «women's rights are human rights.&rWomen in Beijing — where then - first lady Clinton called on the international community to ensure «women's rights are human rights.&rwomen's rights are human rights.»

Though the gap has been slowly improving since the 1970s, experts estimate that equal pay for men and women won't be the norm until the year 2119.

Meanwhile, as you may have heard, she released a book (and launched a nonprofit) called Lean In early this year — a «sort of manifesto» for women's ambition that's stood atop bestseller lists and has sold a million copies since it dropped in March.

They founded WBDC over 15 years ago, and have since helped more than 30,000 women business owners and provided entrepreneurial training for over 25,000 Chicago area women.

In fact, since 1997 there have been an average of 608 net new women - owned firms launched each and every day — and the rate just over the past year stands at 887 per day.

But with improvements in medicine and lifestyles, average life expectancy for Americans who reach 65 has risen nearly seven years — to 84.3 for men and 86.6 for women — since Social Security was established.

A lot has changed for women and men in the 50 years since Betty Friedan wrote «The Feminine Mystique.»

She has made multiple appearances on Crain's New York Business's annual list of New York's 50 Most Powerful Women and has also been ranked on the Commercial Observer's Power 100 list each year since 2013.

The number of Hispanic women at the company has more than doubled since last year.

Since close to 821,000 women entrepreneurs contribute $ 18 billion to the Canadian economy each year, women need to continue raising the bar and raising their voice.

The two women, who have lived in the United Kingdom for 14 years, have faced repeated deportation attempts and have been detained at the Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre since January 2018.

His egotistic and self - described «messianic tendencies» seem to be tempered by lifelong friendships and a 25 - year marriage to a woman he's known since he was 15.

I am the worst sinner ever i think... i lost my virginity since when i was 14 or more years... the first time i intercourse with the married woman (i do nt know she divorced or her husband died) and that was just once but kissed many times... then later i intercourse with another lady then after that with the another lady (girl friends)... then after that i have a long lasting relationship with another lady (nonchristian) we already intercourse for many times... and as years pases by..

There have been unsubstantiated reports and rumors of sexually inappropriate behavior circling about Louis C.K. for years, but the Times is the first newspaper to have women officially go on record, although the since - deceased Gawker reportedly had an article in the works when it was shut down.

Obama has been voted Most Admired Man every year since 2008, and Clinton has been voted Most Admired Woman every year for the past 16 years.

As an example, when I came out to my parents, my father told me (in no uncertain terms) that he would never come visit me (I was moving to another province) as long as I was with a woman and that, while I would always be welcome to visit him, my partner would never be welcome inside his house (though she had been at times previous since we had been best friends for years and she knew all my family).

The event marks almost one year since the historic vote passed legislation to allow women bishops within the Church of Wales.

There are more women over the last forty years (since second wave feminism) involved in public church ministry than in the history of the church.

Wonder Woman has shaped, freed, called and transformed the limits for more women since her birth in 1941 than the Virgin Mary has done in 2000 years.

It's 20 years since the first Church of England women priests were ordained, with nearly 1,800 women making up the 8,000 full - time priests in the Church.

Minister for Faith and Communities Baroness Warsi told Premier's News Hour she thinks the women appointed to cabinet have earned their new positions, she said: «Liz Truss, who've I've known for many years Nicky Morgan, Esther McVey; phenomenally talented women who quite rightly should be in cabinet, and it was right that they've built up their experience over the last few years since being elected and now they're going to serve at the top table.»

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

The Guttmacher Institute reported Tuesday (Jan. 17) the rate fell to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women 15 to 44 years old in 2014, which is a decline of 14 percent since its most recent survey in 2011.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

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