She embodies the drive for female equality by shattering many glass ceilings.
Former boxer and Labour MP Paul Flynn described the decision as "foolish" and said it was not a step forward for female equality.
For example, in March 2012, the Secretary of State issued Policy Guidance on Promoting Gender Equality to Achieve our National Security and Foreign Policy Objectives, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator released Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy.
She has created and runs WET Productions, a nonprofit production company that produces media that challenges female stereotypes and advocates for equality.
More women in the workplace, more female-led families and more sexual equality in general might be expected to cause women to pick up men's bad habits, or be exposed to greater dangers.
As the medical profession moves to gender equality, perhaps even majority female, are the medical schools being expanded to take account of the near inevitable career breaks and part time working that will ensue?
As the Wall Street Journal noted this week in " Guys Left Behind (GLBs), " though we still haven't elected a female president (apparently the yardstick of equality these days), women are making it in terms of college education (nearly 60% of grads are women), political muscle (53% of 2008 electorate were women), market influence (women control 80% of consumer spending) and employment.
Any person who cares about equality for women, whether male or female, needs to write a letter, vote appropriately and make sure your representatives in Congress know that whatever loophole let Genworth get away with this needs to be closed now.
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It is also working on a gender equality action plan to boost its ratio of female leaders though it admits it will miss its slated target of 30% by end 2013.
The lack of female role-models is an oft cited barrier to gender equality in entrepreneurship.
The reluctance of some younger women (notably in their 20s and 30s) to read female-oriented finance books is in a sense a victory for the equality movement.
Hamm was a pioneer for gender equality in sports and this year ESPN named her the greatest female athlete of the last 40 years, which covers the Title IX era.
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The idea is to accelerate, monitor and guide social change with a view to establish a genuine equality between men and women in The Gambia, while at the same time promoting female leadership in socio-economic, political and cultural areas.
The idea is to accelerate, monitor and guide social change with a view to establish a genuine equality between men and women in this country, while at the same time promoting female leadership in socio-economic, political and cultural areas.
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