Sentence examples for major gender equality from inspiring English sources

She shared the story during a conversation with NPR's Nina Totenberg about her life and career, which she's spent winning landmark battles for women's rights as an attorney and presiding over major gender equality cases as a judge.

"This commitment reflects two of L'Oréal's major orientations: gender equality and climate protection," said Alexandra Palt, L'Oréal's chief sustainability officer, at the time.

Year: 2009-2011 MArea Area: Basic Education and Gender Equality Language: English Abstract: Lack of female teachers in rural primary schools could be a major cause of the gender gaps in enrolment and retention rates, especially for girls nearing puberty as they require mentoring and support from female teachers.

This is a major boost for gender equality".

AT THE flamboyant Olympic opening ceremony on July 27th, Jacques Rogge of the International Olympic Committee declared the London games a "major boost for gender equality".

When Pankhurst was recruited earlier this summer, Jacques Rogge was hailing the Games as "a major boost for gender equality", and in the warm Olympics afterglow a mass lobby in protest at the erosion of women's rights had struck some as anachronistic.

He adds: For the first time in Olympic history all of the teams have female athletes - and this is a major boost for gender equality Rogge reminds the competitors that they are all role models.

"There have not been any major changes on gender equality and women's rights historically that didn't have organised women's groups pushing for them," said Lydia Alpízar Durán, Awid's executive director.

The jockey Michelle Payne struck a major blow for gender equality in sport when she became the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup, Australia's biggest horse race, on Prince of Penzance.

In London, 4,847 women are competing, 44% of the total; the contribution of every nation to that tally, Rogge said at the opening ceremony, "is a major boost for gender equality".

When the International Olympic Committee president, Jacques Rogge, declared at the opening ceremony that London 2012 was "a major boost for gender equality", perhaps he had not heard that on their flights to London the Japanese women's football team and the Australian women's basketball team were relegated to economy class, while the men flew business.