Sentence examples for less empowered to from inspiring English sources

Female workers are especially vulnerable to wage theft and other forms of exploitation, and are less empowered to speak up.

Without literacy, each of the 17 goals will be limited by the inability of citizens to be sufficiently informed on key issues, and less empowered to take action," said Dan Wagner, Unesco's chair in learning and literacy at the University of Pennsylvania.

A final possibility is that women who are depressed feel less empowered to assert control over their sexual relationships.

Other socio-demographic characteristics examined (education, income and employment) were selected because inheritance is assumed to be more common among poor and uneducated widows who are less empowered to resist family pressure [7], [8], [10].

This had the dual effect of making me feel, on the one hand, obliged to accept and, on the other, less empowered to voice an opinion.

This may indicate that researchers in these countries are less empowered to pursue research interests independently, when compared with their colleagues in Western countries.

Many researchers also argue that most pregnant women in resource poor settings are less empowered and are thus less likely to resist the pressure to comply with the advice given by health professionals in antenatal settings [ 11- 13].

Casual sex was starting to make me feel less empowered, and more manipulated.

(GP7) You don't want them (nurses) to see somebody in the bed who they are worried about and say oh she's not ticking such a box so I'm not going to ask the doctor to see her. (GP1) The Pharmacists interviewed expressed confidence in the medicines management service they provide to the LTCFs but are less empowered in terms of expanding their clinical role.

They were finding it difficult to provide adequate follow-up for less empowered patients with more extensive needs, mostly multi-morbid patients.

But medical opinions are everywhere, and second opinions are tricky business for doctors and patients alike -- superb evidence, as if anyone really needed it, that patients may be somewhat less empowered than the gurus of the medical consumers movement like to maintain.