Sentences with phrase «because of sexism»

Given that women are less likely to negotiate salaries or rise to executive positions not only because of sexism, but because they are less likely to be assertive in ways that the workplace rewards (Wade, 2001).

You say it is because of sexism in Hollywood.

«Did Christine Quinn Lose the New York Mayoral Race Because of Sexism?

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Former Uber software engineer Susan Fowler, who made explosive allegations of sexism and harassment at the ride - hailing company in a post on her personal blog that led to an internal investigation, said her request to transfer to another team to avoid her harasser was rejected because of retention concerns.

It is often challenging to fully report on stories of sexual harassment or sexism in evangelical communities because records are sealed and because individual allegations are dismissed by people in power, Ingersoll says.

And other racisms, such as sexism... of women for being women or for gays for being gay... people suffering because of who they are.

The transition is tragic because the moderns failed to understand, just as the originators of classical cultures had, how the liberative potential of reason as the human ability to raise ever further relevant questions is alienated and frustrated in authoritarian societies deeply marked by classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.

It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.»

This is because evangelicals, for all our good work in fighting sex trafficking and the exploitation of women around the world, often fail to see the sexism that pervades our own church corridors.

There have been so many definitions of man held over the years and I think some of them just turn people off because some of them with a hyper - masculinity even with the sexism.

Unfortunately there is also a certain section of the population, largely driven by sexism, who will feel sympathetic towards Huhne because of their negative feeling about his ex-wife.

«I suppose it's somehow less hurtful to accuse hundreds of thousands of people of sexism than it is to pick on a specific person,» he writes, pointing out that Miller lacks a «coherent argument,» her case resting on a questionable analogy to the 2008 Obama / Clinton race, which Miller asserts Obama won purely because of sexist attacks on Hillary.

But maybe, just maybe, this shortage is not the result of sexism and a flawed selection process but because (as the LibDem leader Nick Clegg so candidly revealed this week) the female candidates are still not up to it.

Because when you don't have the opportunity, or you feel as if you have experienced racism or sexism, you sort of have to figure out ways to become more resourceful.»

Because there's a needed balance in their depiction of adolescent sexism, the battle to either overcome or embrace the labels of peers and that time when everything either is either sublime or a complete mess.

Karin still fights herself as she walks back toward the village, but because of her night in nature, she knows it is she who must change her views on class and sexism, not the villagers.

My gut tells me more men than women would get nominated, not because of any overt sexism, but because men are more likely to get the meaty roles that the Academy likes to recognize.

Well, Lenny's wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek), who even Lenny admits in the movie's single and genuinely clever joke is too beautiful for him, is over-emotional (the movie's opinion of her) because she wants to have another kid, so it does aim one sexist stereotype at one of its few major female characters (Speaking of sexism, can we talk about the MPAA ratings board's glaring double standard in pointing out that a movie's nudity is of the «male rear» variety, directly implying that there's something different — worse, more offensive — about the same of the female kind?).

Yet because the only way these outlaw martyrs can reclaim their freedom is to nobly strike back against a society characterized by male - propagated sexism and objectification — in one of many instances of overkill, a truck driver, besides simply gesturing obscenely to the women, even has mud flaps with silvery nude women decals protecting his truck's tires — Thelma & Louise «s feminist call to arms winds up sounding woefully simple - minded.

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Funny Girl by Nick Hornby (novel) because it's got that 1960s funk of glamor, sexism and cigarette smoke, surrounding a story of a group of flawed creative people trying to reconcile art and commerce.

There are subtle things like someone will use a really patronising tone with you, and then there's the blatant sexism — like I once got asked about my family plans in an interview because it would hamper my chance of getting the job.

It is interesting for me to see this in particular because I used to hear about her work when I was a child in the 1950s and there was always a dismissive edge of contempt when her name came up, but I didn't know how much that may have been the result of sexism and cliquishness — the work in the show has a formal clarity and elegance that defies those condescending views.

Criminal Law Melody Izadi When Sexism Hits the Fan: how Female Defence Counsel are Put On Trial Because of their Gender

Age discrimination is defined as a «systematic stereotyping of and discrimination against people because they are old, just as racism and sexism accomplish this with skin color and gender.»

In the social media statement, Green argued that because of the «clear racism, sexism and xenophobia» in the American election, Zabel's display could «underscore the distrust many Canadians feel» towards the justice system.

On the second day, the panel of accomplished and wise Aboriginal women (led by senior federal advisor Kerrie Tim, with Eileen Cummings, June Oscar AO, and Karen Nangala Woodley) was also a standout because it reminded us how important it is that we acknowledge that our research is taking place in a context of a colonised white Australia, and that white research has long been used to entrench racism and sexism in Aboriginal communities, rather than to enhance understanding and bring about transformative social change.

The idea of benevolent sexism is essentially that while trying to appear overly kind or generous, someone actually views the other person as incapable or incompetent because of their gender.