Sentences with phrase «american women of today»

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She cites the fact that women are 57 % of today's college graduates, as well as the 4 million copies of Lean In sold, as indicators of how there have been major changes in terms of how women are perceived in American society.

According to the Institute for American Values, the number of marriages per 1000 unmarried women age fifteen and older has shrunk from 76.5 in 1970 to 36 today.

Today, tens of thousands of religious organizations, and tens of millions of Americans, continue to believe and teach that the proper understanding of marriage is a union of one man and one woman.

Yet the basic social and cultural patterns that today condemn men and women to death, in accordance with the wishes of 65 per cent of the American public, remain in some ways remarkably unchanged from ancient times.

American women religious today still seem not to have discovered what it is that might assuage their longings, and the seriously ill social ecology of their lives is very much in danger of permanent demise.»

Most of the major civic institutions in American communities today — like the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, the Urban League, the Knights of Columbus, Rotary, Kiwanis, the Lions Club — were created in this period.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

And given the inroads into American family life, including the fact that 40 percent of births these days are to unmarried women, it is doubtful that if the amendment were up for ratification today, a new Phyllis Schlafly would be able to find many of those apple - pie - baking Middle - American housewives to staff her battalions.

Tough, smart, fearlessly outspoken, and possessed of an uncanny gift for strategically mobilizing her Middle American supporters (overwhelmingly women, those housewives from Peoria), she not only beat back the seemingly unstoppable ERA but played a key role in securing the presidential nominations of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1980, paving the way for today's Bush presidency and Republican dominance of Congress and statehouses across the country.

Today, only half of Americans 18 and over are married and the age of people entering their first marriage has reached an all - time high among men and women.

Today, abortion remains legal while a series of national stories involving police brutality against African American men and women have revealed to many another layer of inequality within the American criminal justice system.

Although these represent small percentages, given that about 70 million Americans qualify as churched adult women, this amounts to millions of women in the U.S. today who feel discouraged by their experiences in churches.»

Helen served as co-editor and contributor of Growing Healthy Asian - American Churches (IVP, 2006) and has written numerous articles for publications such as Christianity Today, Leadership Journal, and Today's Christian Woman.

Americans of his era, he wrote, understood neither woman nor sex and therefore sentimentalized both — an observation that remains true of us today, I think, though now we are no longer sentimental.

Today, in support of the National Heart Month and the upcoming American Heart Association's Go Red for Women «Wear Red Day» (Feb 7th), I got to share some of my favorite lean beef breakfast recipes on the Great Day San Antonio show.

In response to «Fructose - Rich Beverages and Risk of Gout in Women,» a study published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Richard Adamson, former director, Division of Cancer Etiology and scientific director, National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health; former vice president of Scientific and Technical Affairs for the American Beverage Association; current president of TPN Associates, LLC, and consultant to the American Beverage Association, said:

Today is also the kickoff of American Heart Month in support of the American Heart Association's #GoRedForWomen campaign to end heart disease and stroke in women through education, exercise and diet.

The University of Connecticut and its women's soccer program would like to apologize for an inappropriate gesture a UConn student - athlete made to an ESPNU camera following today's American Athletic Conference championship game.

There are also exhibits exploring the roles women and African - Americans have played, and an exhibit titled «Today's Game» that features lockers of each MLB team with recent artifacts.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shared just today what I think is their first policy statement specific to homebirth, and as one would anticipate, they concur «with the recent statement of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists affirming that hospitals and birthing centers are the safest settings for birth in the United States while respecting the right of women to make a medically informed decision about delivery» (2013, 1016, abstract).

Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.

And it's about this conviction I have that this feeling — this widespread, choking cocktail of guilt and anxiety and resentment and regret — is poisoning motherhood for American women today» (Warner, 2005, p. 4).

In fact, Lisa Maatz of the American Association of University Women told USA Today that, to be accurate, moms» Equal Pay Day is really on June 4.

Most American breastfeeding women beginning solids at 6 months experience 6 - 12 months of amenorrhea (lack of periods), but much longer is not at all uncommon, even today.

In the large Catholic families of my childhood, most girls had changed more diapers and spooned more Gerber's and done more baby - sitting by the age of 19 than the average American woman today ever will.

Whereas, sixty - nine years later and three years before the 19th Amendment was ratified, women in New York won that right on Election Day, November 6, 1917; to commemorate this important heritage, the New York State Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy todaywomen in New York won that right on Election Day, November 6, 1917; to commemorate this important heritage, the New York State Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy todayWomen's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy todaywomen's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy today; and

«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.

«The veterans that are with us here today and the thousands of servicemen and women fighting throughout the world deserve for us to make every effort to ensure that the American flag is proudly displayed at public universities and colleges.»

In 1960, two thirds of American women in their early 20s were already married; today the figure is less than a quarter.

Postmenopausal women who reached menopause at an earlier age or who never gave birth are at a higher risk for heart failure, according to research published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Overall, 75 percent think discrimination against women has decreased over the past 25 years or so, but at the same time an equal number of Americans say discrimination continues to be an issue today for many women.

Reporting today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a team of scientists from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a subset of the larger Women's Health Initiative, report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in women 65 years of age and oWomen's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a subset of the larger Women's Health Initiative, report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in women 65 years of age and oWomen's Health Initiative, report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in women 65 years of age and owomen 65 years of age and older.

Taking care of grandkids one day a week helps keep grandmothers mentally sharp, finds a study from the Women's Healthy Aging Project study in Australia, published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

Wright knows of what she speaks: she was the first African - American woman to dive with Alvin, and today she is still the only African - American female full professor at OSU.

Presented in Indianapolis today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), it found that providing more information to women and older people could increase the effectiveness of e-waste disposal bans and recycling programs.

African American women were found to be twice as likely to be diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy as compared to women of Caucasian, Hispanic / Latina, Asian, and other ethnic backgrounds, according to a new study — the largest of its kind — published today in JAMA Cardiology by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Emily Laber - Warren is director of Health & Science Reporting at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; she has been a top editor at Scientific American Mind, Women's Health, and Popular Science, and her articles have appeared in those and other publications, including Psychology Today and Newsweek.

Fast - forward to today: The latest guidelines from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) say that most women younger than 21 don't need Paps at all, women age 21 to 30 should get them every three years and women older than 30 can stretch it to every five if they get an HPV test, too, assuming all results are negative.

Meanwhile, another review published today highlights a very real downside of drinking, even in moderation: For women, just one small glass of alcohol a day increases breast cancer risk, says a new report from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).

And today 34 percent of women over the age of 20 fit into this «clinically obese» category, compared with 26 percent a decade or so ago, according to the American Heart Association.

The average American woman today wears between a size 16 and 18, up from the previous standard dress size of 14, according to a new study.

Won't Be Denied: a suspense novel — a portrait of an... single African American... GA, October 13, 2004: Today there are many single women over the age of thirty.

There are probably a few hundreds of Russian dating scammers on today's Internet - but there are also thousands of real Russian women with usual women's dreams of love, marriage and family: A true - life Story of Dan and Val, who met each other over the Internet and fell in love: «I subscribed to an internet dating service a couple years ago, expecting to only communicate with American women.

There are probably a few hundreds of Russian dating scammers on today's Internet - but there are also thousands of real Russian women with usual women's dreams of love, marriage and family: A true - life Story of Dan and Val, who met over the Internet and fell in love: «I subscribed to an internet dating service a couple years ago, expecting to only communicate with American women.

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While today almost half of all LGB American men and women identify as Christian, The Advocate expects that number to grow as the years go by.

Today there are thousands of marriages between Russian women with Russian American men or Native American men.

Take action to sign up a profile and contact thousands of American Single women and men in your area today.

TV Land announced today the series pick - up of 1970s period dramedy «American Woman,» starring Alicia Silverstone («Clueless,» «Suburgatory»), Mena Suvari («American Beauty,»...

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