Sentences with phrase «class working woman»

I am a middle class working woman who couldn't believe what I was dealing with.

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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.

I grew up in a working class family in South Dakota, married an astonishing woman, and 55 years later we're still together through good news and bad news — including cancer.»

«That bar is not easily met for working class and poor women and men.»

«STEM majors are the most valuable majors by far and I think we need to work on getting more women in those classes.»

Does her blueprint for success ignore the plight of poor and working - class women?

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.

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.

Working - class black and brown women are leading worker justice campaigns that are winning higher minimum wages, stable scheduling practices and better benefits for all wage - earners.

It's not meant to be an attack on men, or white men, or white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers, such as higher wages than women in the same line of work.

You need to hear and honour the voices and experiences of the non-academic, of the non-professionals, of the working class, of the middle class, of women, of the elders, of people of colour, of sexual minorities, remember the global voice, too.

In one remarkably progressive instance, the New York Moral Reform Society (NYMRS) published an article in their newsletter — the Advocate of Moral Reform — calling out the double standard between men and women in terms of sex, mainly that men were allowed to have it whenever where - ever, but if a woman worked as a prostitute (pretty much her only option for many lower class impoverished women), then she was the lowest of the low.

Torture and public trials resulted in burnings at the stake of poor and working - class women viewed as symbols of rebellion against the ruling church.

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.

3) It is a source of dignity — made obvious in this case by Renee's low status as an unattractive working - class woman without children and past child - bearing age.

At the center of the story is Renée, an ugly middle - aged woman of the working classes, the concierge of the building.

Indeed, «prime - time women are unrealistically upscale»: 26 per cent are millionaires, 68 per cent are middle class and only 5 per cent are working class.

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.

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

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?»

This makes sense to you, although it makes no sense at all to me (and I would predict it makes no sense to the other 5 billion of us non Muslims), I would have less problems if it were applied to all citizen of that country, both men and women, those in power and the working class, the rulers and the ruled, but that is not the case.

In industrialised countries, the time has come to work towards common strategies between the working class, the declining middle class, the intellectuals, immigrants and movements representing specific interests: ecologists, women, children's rights, etc..

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

(Studies by Bernice Neugarten of the University of Chicago show that both middle - class men and women tend to see middle age as a time of rewards and prime activity, whereas working - class men and women tend to see these as years of decline.

What was freedom for Murphy Brown — single motherhood by choice — has proven a burden for working - class and underclass women.

This being the case, he continues, «young Catholic women have quite sensibly decided that, if they wish to do good works or be political activists while dressing like middle - class professionals and living in apartments, there is little reason to bind themselves, even in an attenuated way, to the classic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience - each of which has undergone a radical reinterpretation in the LCWR congregations.

It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower - class women, one has to move the appearance of full - time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.

To buy unnecessary and excessively luxurious goods, and to do it in a public way, buttresses one's reputation as a man or woman of leisure and erects a symbolic barrier against the reeking working classes.

good for her... still doesn't change the policies of the GOP that hurt the middle class, women, minorities, gays, working class, students, the elderly, the poor, the sick.

Setting aside the lower class (which in Plato's republic means the rich and all those who are allowed to have private wealth) he aims to produce a ruling class in which all goods are held in common, with women and men sharing the same work and the same education.

But an adequate feminist analysis must embrace the whole spectrum of the female condition in such a way as to take into account the different situations of non-Christian women, working - class women, black women, married women, etc..

The working class, ethnic groups, caste groups, women - all are awakened and a tremendous diversity is there.

Harmon's first wife (also his third) was Lillie Duran, a woman of Mexican descent from a working - class family.

Maternity clothes, OB / GYN visits, ultrasounds, tests, nutritional supplements, birthing classes, perhaps even unpaid sick days from work or the loss of a prospective job because few employers want to hire an obviously pregnant woman — it isn't cheap or easy to be knocked up.

Breastmilk Expression and Storage is a postnatal breastfeeding class designed for exclusively pumping moms, women planning on returning to work and women who have returned to work and need help with their pumping and milk supply.

It's really important for them to work with some of the accommodations that are made it a prenatal yoga class because there are certain simple things like in the very beginning stages of pregnancy, a woman should not do deep abdominal twists, there are a lot of twists that happen in yoga.

Our Prenatal Yoga classes are designed with working moms in mind, though all women are welcome.

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.

I worked because had I not, my own class of students would have been taught by a sub, who, since my department is predominately female, would likely have been another woman doing extra work for no extra compensation.

Start a new hobby, take classes for women, or pick up a work - at - home job if it's something you want to try.

Class coffee for a working woman — how is it going to work?

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.

Kelly Hogaboom: Cisgendered working - class white woman, wife and mother; two children, one husband, four cats (that's officially a «clowder» of cats), five laying hens.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

Using her years of sewing and design skills, Cindy took inspiration from a woman in her breastfeeding class and got to work.

Prenatal Yoga is a natural class for me to teach as most of my work in my practice specializes in the care of women throughout the stages of pregnancy and beyond.

You can cover your employment gap, take classes that can help any woman get ahead in the working world, earn one of these licenses or certificates that can enhance your resume or accept one of the best part - time jobs for stay - at - home moms.

Worry simultaneously that everything I was doing was extraneous and a middle - class woman's luxury and that I should just be strapping my baby on my back and going about my normal work, and that I wasn't doing enough to stimulate him so he'd never reach his full potential.

Middle - class women followed suit, with working - class women and women of color gradually ceasing to breastfeed accordingly.33