Sentences with phrase «class woman who»

Investigating this tragic crime with the assistance of the beautiful Melisande gives him just the opportunity he needs to spend time with an upper class woman who normally wouldn't give him the time of day.

Joan Crawford, despite her star status, isn't a terribly versatile actress, but Mildred is possibly her most perfectly fitting role — a working class woman who claws her way to prosperity in any way she can, much as Crawford herself had done working her way into the movies in the 1920s.

In adapting Terence Rattigan's 1952 play of an upper - class woman who forsakes her marriage and secure life for a man she quickly learns can't love her, the scrupulously retrospective filmmaker Terence Davies may surprise skeptics who'd see this material as a confirmation of his fustiness.

Maggie Smith goes completely against type to play a working - class woman who spouts the sort of racist comments that would cost a highly rated American comedian his career.

Turn the River is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working - class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.

With some of the cast talking directly to the audience to fill us in on what's going on, «I, Tonya» stars Margot Robbie as a 15 - year - old right up to her 25th year: credit the wig people and makeup artists for converting a classy - looking actress as a hardscrabble, working - class woman who had in at least one instance is looked over by as a representative of her sport because she does not radiate a wholesome, family manner.

For instance, feminists disagree on the interpretation of Swept Away, a Lina Wertmuller film that portrays an upper - class woman who is sexually dominated by her servant and who eventually begins to enjoy the domination.

What happens to middle and upper class women who travel abroad for an abortion?

The use of disposable diapers is growing, especially among working class women who regard these products less involving in terms of labour, and less time - consuming.

The middle - class parents who still suffer most, I suspect, from cookie angst could learn from working - class women who have long seen good parenting in providing.

In 17th century England, for instance, it was typically upper - class women who hired wet nurses, while working - class women nursed their own children.

There are a lot of upper middle class women who will ask indignantly, «Isn't this just for wealthy women?»

The Fifty Shades series was — and continues to be — little else than imagination - starved, fantasy wish - fulfillment for unadventurous, middle - class women who like a little BDSM — or a reasonable approximation thereof — mixed in with their third - or fourth - rate erotic relationship dramas.

Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis star as two working - class women who pick up guys in a nearby bar and deceive themselves that a one - night stand could lead to marriage.

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

Beulah London starts with two rich upper class women who went to Delhi, India, and were so moved by their experiences that they started an ethical designer clothes business to employ former sex workers.

Not exact matches

The initiative, called Time's Up, was announced Monday with an open letter signed by hundreds of women who all pledged to support working - class women.

Another woman steeped in the issue is Megan Smith, the first female US Chief Technology Officer (CTO), who says, «So many Americans have the grit and creativity of a world - class entrepreneur, but they lack the resources — mentorship, networking, funding, training — to bring their ideas to fruition.»

This year our mentee class includes an Indonesian woman whose company manufactures leather goods; an Egyptian who founded a survey research company; a lawyer and media personality from Ghana; and the co-founder of an online money transfer company from Poland.

It's because masculinity is founded on the myth that men alone are rights - bearing persons and women are subordinate, passive, second - class beings who either need the protection of or deserve to be subjected to men.

Pam Locke, who serves as Askew's mentor, was one of two African - American women to graduate from West Point's first class of women in 1980.

-RRB- to the women who have demonstrated consistent innovation and leadership skills, resulting in the creation and international acceptance of significant world - class products and / or services.

Canada Edmonton law firm files $ 15 - million class action lawsuit over E. coli contamination, CBC News Toronto police seeking woman who threw hot liquid on Starbucks employee, Toronto Star Ontario ethics watchdog reprimands Patrick Brown for failing to disclose $ 375,000 loan, rental income, Globe and Mail

Although you will usually find a majority of women in our classes, we have a lot of men who attend regular classes and see great results.

WBENC's Top Corporations award honors corporations who have implemented world - class policies and programs to enable growth and innovation, while creating a level playing field for women - owned businesses.

In a new complaint seeking class action status, two women — who are maintaining anonymity — are asking a court to force the $ 69 billion ride - hail company to change many of its driver screening and other practices on behalf of all U.S. riders who were «subject to rape, sexual assault or gender - motivated violence or harassment by their Uber driver in the last four years.»

James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.

Our vision at Telstra is to be a world class technology company and for 24 years we've been recognising and celebrating women in business who are doing world class work.

Grace is a middle aged woman who writes about the challenges of saving for retirement and minimizing debt late in life, with a middle class income.

I get from David's cartoon that there are 4 distinct classes of women who have been treated badly by the bigotry so prevalent in the Christian Church.

It is about time women take back control over their lives instead of bowing down to religion that are ruled by men who want women to be second class citizens of the world.

Perhaps it was a high - school English teacher, a woman who assigned her class Shakespeare plays to read and discuss for an entire year.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

A male, who held the highest position in society, and held the highest class status, was seen to be «feminized» by penetration, and designated as a social inferior, (female), by a male of lower class status, and thus his status was lowered, to that of a woman.

One day my American literature professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive woman who was satisfied to live in a circumscribed world in Amherst, Massachusetts.

It's also important for those of us who have grown weary of being treated like second - class Kingdom citizens to be reminded of the fact that there are indeed many Christian men out there who support and celebrate women in the Church.

On his first day in town, he witnesses an Islamist assassin kill a university administrator who has banned women students from wearing Islamic headscarves to class.

The women who led the class charged a few dollars, which went into their pockets.

They are then further disturbed that the headteacher loyally supports the staff member who has made the children shout out «penis» or «vagina» at the front of the class, or has said that the Church will one day ordain women priests, or has talked openly about their gay partner.

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

I do indeed believe, but I believe as one of a great company of men and women, from many ages, of all races and classes, rich and poor, simple and learned, who in one way or another have been drawn to find the truest key to the meaning and purpose of human existence given focal expression in Jesus Christ.

And David, frankly speaking conservative Evangelicals (and Catholics) are almost the only ones who view women as second - class Christians nowadays.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

The Early Days of Christianity Women have suffered second - class citizenship for so long that it is hardly surprising if nowadays we are suspicious that it is not God but man who continues to debar...

It was probably at least a decade ago, while I was teaching at Oberlin, that a young African - American woman — I'll call her Tonya — who had been a student in several of my classes told me she was leaving school, at least for a year.

Additionally, the «teach that your religion is better than another person's,»... Well as a person who had to take a women's study and leisure class and also a psychology class taught by a known feminist, I will report to you there is enough «I am better than you» just within the same classes.

But he also quotes another expert who complains that the middle - class white women are portrayed in such a cartoonish way that they don't really challenge the audience.

She is five, and her parents have rented a room in their house to a woman who holds classes for young children.

Go ask a woman who is a member and see if they feel like they are second class citizens.

- Priesthoods restricted to men who can not marry (resulting in rampant pedophilia, and treating women like second - class humans).