Sentences with phrase «class women with»

British character actress Julie Walters has made a career out of playing working - class women with good hearts and sharp tongues — which should come as no surprise, given her background.

The proportion is even higher among middle - class women with well - paid jobs — more than 90 per cent of mothers in managerial or professional roles breastfeed.

The research advances have been most convincing for white, middle - class women with a high level of education; those are the mothers most likely to breast - feed.

Rebellious and opinionated, she refused to be confined by tradition or gender, and in 1894, her work was accepted to the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux - Arts, an extraordinary achievement for a working - class woman with no formal art training.

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.

In 1968, Princess Alexandra, the Queen's cousin, opened the Motor Show, which had become a first - class affair, complete with flashy concept cars and displays flanked by beautiful women.

With that as her goal, Herrera was accepted into the Founders Institute incubator — the only woman in her 2010 class.

It joins several other Canadian ventures that similarly put career women in their sightlines, including Toronto's exclusive Verity Club and its luxury spa, the co-working and wellness space Shecosystem with its yoga classes and Madonna dance parties, and the pretty and perky penthouse space Make Lemonade.

«I was the only duffer in the class, and many of the other women had these pants with a symbol on their butt, and their pants did not appear to be sweating as much as mine,» she recalls.

Rather than assuming that all women or African Americans or working - class whites will respond to the same message, they target individual voters with emotionally charged content — in other words, ads designed to tug on emotional biases.

WBENC, a national 501 (c)(3) non-profit, partners with 14 Regional Partner Organizations to provide its world class standard of certification to women - owned businesses throughout the country.

When Helen Foreman graduated with a commerce degree from the University of Calgary in 1969, she was one of only four women in her class.

WASHINGTON — In concert with Women's History Month, the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) today announced the 15th annual list of America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs), the only national award honoring corporations for world - class Supplier Diversity programs that reduce barriers and drive growth for Women's Business Enterprises.

WBENC partners with 14 Regional Partner Organizations (RPOs) to provide its world - class standard of certification to women - owned businesses throughout the country.

«We are proud to honor 20 Top Corporations for their world - class leadership in partnering with women's business enterprises to sustain innovation in this country and fuel our economic growth,» said Linda Denny, president and CEO of WBENC, the leading authority on and advocate for women's business enterprises (WBEs) as vendors and suppliers to the nation's leading corporations.

One obvious way to offset the clubbiness endemic to Silicon Valley's investor class would be to replace the «guts» of white men with those of women and people of color.

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.

Oh, he is part of the «Christian'tradition indeed... treat all women like second - class citizens and let the men deal with the tough stuff.

I think more effort and resources would be more effectively and more critically placed into keeping our government secular, keeping Creationism out of the science class, and religious fundamentalism away from interfering with women's reproductive choices — just to name a few priorities.

The path to true financial security for a woman in the U.S. quite often entails getting breast implants and selling herself to the man with a 6 - series bmw or s - class benz, then divorcing him and taking his money.

They provide the women with activities including baking course, Bible studies and pilates classes, as well as assistance with sexual health.

Not only does it show that women are second class, but equates them with property.

Prosecutors argued that Darlie, described as a pampered and materialistic woman, with substantial debt, plummeting credit ratings, and little money in the bank, feared that her middle class lifestyle was about to end and killed two of her children to rid herself of a financial burden.

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.

(Woman with woman, in general, was not addressed, and the class issue was not importWoman with woman, in general, was not addressed, and the class issue was not importwoman, in general, was not addressed, and the class issue was not important.)

When I first heard the «binders full of women» quote it didn't feel out of place with the «cattle class» treatment from HR, just more of the «same old, same old» really.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

In a racist, heterosexist, class - injured world, God is likely to meet us often in images associated with children, poor women, black, brown, yellow and red women, lesbian women, battered women, bleeding women and women learning to fight back.

My own statements about the way in which the decline of marriage contributes to the difficulties facing the working class were singled out as suggesting that unmarried women with children were somehow responsible — blaming the victim.

This brief article will be my last on the subject — at least unless or until one word of gratitude for an unprecedented share of life's blessings, along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America's middle - class women.

Funny how folks continue to question Obama's religion but are comfortable with a Mormon Bishop that treats women as second class citizens and believed blacks weren't human until 1978...

Funny how folks continue to question Obama's religion but are comfortable with Mormon Bishop that treats women as second class citizens and believed blacks weren't human until 1978...

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.

That was written in a time when it was true, before Christians argued over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, whether to use grape juiceor wine in the communion class, and whether women should wear doilies on their head when they pray, and a myriad of other stupid destructive timewasting ideologies designed to keep us running around with 1 foot nailed to the floor.

Another thing, yes women were treated as second - class citizens, but Jesus reversed all that with his teachings, giving women honor and allowing them to be his disciples.

In other words, they saw clearly that along with the struggle for justice for the industrial working class, we must simultaneously go forward with the liberation of dalits, tribals and women if we have to realize an Indian socialism.

No, the real story is that motherhood has become a stress - laden and guilt - ridden project due to the societal veneration of stay - at - home moms, the workplace requirement that women be overachievers just to stay even with their male colleagues, economic anxiety about class standing and, above all, government and corporate refusal to devise family - friendly policies.

People having choices taken away from them, freedom of and from religion completely gone, women being bumped down to near second class citizens, religious wars with and against other theocracys.

Some men in minority cultures are finding, as they move into the middle - class world through job or profession, that friendship between women and men is possible and that a companionship marriage can be more satisfying than the one they have grown up with and married into.

But it's a shaky assumption that just because poor and working - class women are exposed to the lifestyles and tastes of the wealthy they are also susceptible to the neuroses of the wealthy interviewed for the Mothers Movement Online, clinical psychologist Daphne de Marneffe suggests that it's disingenuous to focus so narrowly on wealthy women's «obsession with externals and appearances and competition» and then turn around and ask «Does anyone have an inner life?»

I have no idea why women would worship a being that is said to say that women are property at worst and at best are second class citizens not worthy of this god, which only can communicate with men.

In addition to a woman's program with sewing, beading, and cooking classes, they also run an incredible maternity centre with fully trained midwives, pre and post-natal education classes, vitamins, and lactation consultancy.

Instead of the pricey dinner downtown, attend a cooking class with an Uzbek woman at the League of Kitchens in Harlem (visit.org).

White males may not actively decide to exclude women, racial minorities or those from different cultural or class backgrounds, but they simply do what is easy and natural and surround themselves with those that look, think and relate like them.

You consider simple thoughts like lust and mast.urbation a sin, but have no issue with the disgusting, degenerate way your Bible treats women and $ ex and, even today, admire people like Michele Bachmann who consider women second class citizens to men.

Biblically literate women looked to scripture to justify their changing situation, especially in the churches.25 Gabriele Dietrich emphasizes three points which are important in our context from the Jesus Movement26: firstly, the Jesus Movement was critical of the existing patriarchal family structure and created new forms of community; secondly, it was egalitarian in terms of class with a bias in favor of the poor; and, thirdly, it provided for a participation of women which was far reaching and unusual under the conditions of the time.27

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

In a society which treated women as second class citizens he showed Jesus welcoming them into his fellowship, along with the Twelve, and taking them with him on his travels through the cities and villages of Galilee.

Such awareness will include a prophetic criticism of American feminism when it is too narrow in scope, when it demands that the power of determining and directing social goals and structures be shared with middle - and upper - class American women while other women and groups are still excluded from that realization.

It is true that in one of the Ten Commandments woman is classed with chattel property, but in another she is raised to coordinate dignity with man — «Honor thy father and thy mother.»