As of February 2018, Australia ranked 50th in the world for female representation in parliament. Ley's comments came the day after Julie Bishop, the former Minister for Foreign Affairs and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 until August 2018, decried parliament's culture of bullying....
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(Barbezat & Hughes, 2005). This Equal Pay Act of 1963 exerted an important influence for other countries, like the United Kingdom. The Equal Pay Act 1970 of the United Kingdom Parliament was aimed at prohibiting any less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and ...
The WHO, the American Medical Association, and other organizations have issued statements condemning the participation of physicians in medically unnecessary genital modification. Infibulation and postpartum reinfibulation are illegal by an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom; no such national ...
She remained politically active following the collapse of the Soviet Union but twice lost elections to the national State Duma in 1995 and 2003. Tereshkova was later elected in 2008 to her regional parliament, the Yaroslavl Oblast Duma. In 2011, she was elected to the national State Duma as ...
Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his Conservative government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition, the first woman ...
Location:Taipei in Taiwan, the Sunshine Coast in Australia, and Novi Sad in Serbia Professor Ivana Milojević is a researcher and educator who specializes in futures studies, as well as sociology, gender studies, and peace studies. She has authored over 60 journal articles and book chapters, ...
The UK Parliament has been sporadically concerned with female genital mutilation for almost a century, and British statute goes back three or more decades; but as of early 2015 there still has not been a single successful prosecution concerning any aspect of FGM. The circumstances which have prod...
One member of Parliament, Norman Tebbitt, who was himself a former airline pilot, slammed British European Airways in 1971 for 'a blatant sexual bar' on Delphine Gray-Fisk, when BEA refused to interview Gray-Fisk when she applied for a job with the company. BEA said it was 'not their ...
Their single "Funky Sound" was a remake of the single "Give Up the Funk" by Parliament. The groups other charting single was "I Don't Need Your Love". Angie Stone subsequently became a member of Vertical Hold and later a solo artist. In September 2011, without Angie Stone, Cheryl ...