Sentences with phrase «face social pressures»

In addition, we know that young men face social pressures to conform to particular masculine ideals — because there are few male teachers teaching, it's not really perceived as something that's masculine to do and young men might be more likely to choose career paths like, say, becoming a personal trainer or entering business.

This means female entrepreneurs face social pressures that men don't have to deal with.

A teen - age boy faces the social pressure to «score» and, in so doing, he reduces his partner to a sexual object.

However, you may face social pressure to breastfeed.

Additionally, most to some degree faced social pressure to marry, which reflects Andrew Cherlin's (2004) argument that despite the increase in cohabitation and «deinstitutionalization» of marriage, the symbolic significance of marriage remains high within the culture.»

They are not teenagers anymore, and are now facing social pressure from their families.

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For example, anonymous social apps such as Whisper, which have faced pressure to step up content policing efforts, rely on TaskUs employees to manually flag inappropriate messages — nude photos, threats of violence, etc. — and keep them off its networks.

Those discussions, which have been pushed by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, have been taking place since the beginning of the year, said sources, as the social communications giant has faced increasing pressure from Wall Street to grow its audience and innovate its products.

This is consistent with national survey reports from the General Social Survey where employee owners report that they have greater job security and lower likelihoods of being laid off in the previous year compared to other employees.29 When faced with recessionary pressures, employee ownership firms may retain workers to sustain a workplace culture based on cooperation, information - sharing, and commitment to long - term performance.

• Cooperating with Beijing to develop social services in China as the country faces growing social pressures to bridge the rural - urban divide and appease a burgeoning middle class.

The short - term performance pressures companies face rule out indiscriminate investments in social value creation.

Other buyers said they had faced pressure from employers to generate social media followers.

The social situation in which Jesus lived was one in which a distinctively Jewish identity had to be constructed in the face of constant pressures to become assimilated into the Roman Empire.

On so many issues the Catholic community has been led to expect, even to hope, that today's «unchanging tradition» might change tomorrow and once «infallible» positions will eventually shift in the face of sufficient social pressure.

It is an increasing challenge to raise our children in the current environment, where they face heightened academic and social pressures.

But middle schoolers may also face numerous school rules, school dress codes, social pressures and more.

Today's preteens face even more challenges in middle school than you did, and social pressures can also be a challenge.

Understanding the social, academic and cultural pressures and challenges tweens face, as well as some of the dangers, can help prepare you and your tweens for this bumpy phase of development.

Increased social pressure to be active and engaged parents means more men now face the type of competing demands that women face.

When this happens, he also may face social isolation among his peers and pressure to conform.

In settings where breastfeeding is not the social norm, support can increase women's belief in breastfeeding, and give them confidence to continue breastfeeding in the face of societal and family pressures that might undermine breastfeeding.

Council leaders are disappointed that the white paper does not address the reality of the current and growing funding crisis in adult social care and the subsequent huge financial pressures councils face.

The CPRC believes the key to solving these problems lies at the national level, saying governments face pressure to press on with addressing the problem through social protection.

In general, regions which already face social and economic pressure are hit harder that the more prosperous regions.

Second, humans have faced intense pressure to learn and teach new skills and to make social connections at the expense of sleep.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

In the face of 40 years of public - health drumbeating, smoking bans, and social pressure, that's an amazing failure rate.

While traditional online dating sites let singles search for The One in a mostly solitary endeavor, Tandem is one of a growing number of Internet matchmaking sites like Circl.es and Acquaintable trying to make online dating a little more like it is offline: a social experience with more face - to - face interactions and less pressure to find a soul mate in every stranger.

These couples are often faced with many deep - rooted prejudices and social pressures.

As Internet dating sites increasingly compete with social networking sites, he said they do face more pressure to provide the security of a site like Facebook, which lets users see the company potential dates keep.

Denise Hatton, chief executive for YMCA England & Wales, said: «Bullying has always existed among young people, but this generation face increasing pressure to live up to unrealistic beauty ideals which they say come from celebrities, social media and the media.

Between school, assorted after - school activities, various family obligations, and maintaining a healthy social life, students don't respond well when faced with any unnecessary added pressure.

The social pressures that children face are immense and this is compounded by messaging online.

The MHBA staff expressed concern about being able to keep their students focused on college when the children are dealing with daily social pressures at school or are faced with trauma in their lives.

Moynihan was convinced that what he was witnessing was fundamentally a phenomenon of the black community, and so could be explained by the tragic history of African Americans, which rendered black families uniquely vulnerable to the kind of social and economic pressures many faced in poor urban environments.

Several apps can be used in the classroom or at home to assist in reinforcing social and emotional learning while also helping kids cope with the pressures that we all face.

«Rising cost pressures faced by schools, sixth form and FE colleges have led to serious challenges in the provision of high quality education which can be a key driver for social justice and productivity.

How can your teachers help you deal with social issues and pressures you face?

Every day, they face myriad pressures and responsibilities driven by the political, social, and economic landscape in public education.

The education secretary said that schools were better funded - but he acknowledged that they now faced increased financial pressures and also more social pressures, such as children's mental health problems.

Lack of proficiency in reading and writing in social studies is exacerbated by the fact that schools are spending far less time on social studies instruction in the face of increasing pressure to improve standardized test scores in reading and mathematics (Manzo, 2005).

Teachers face a formidable challenge: they must raise the bar on student performance while competing against social, environmental, and outside pressures as never before.

The government is under pressure to justify its plans to open the first new grammar schools in England in decades, in the face of a large amount of evidence that shows that they have a negative effect on social mobility.

The tension rises as the united front presented by Rose and her lawyer husband, Leo Ingrassia, begins to disintegrate in the face of media demands, legal maneuverings, and social pressures.

There's no question that high school students face some huge obstacles in terms of the social and academic pressures they face.

Faced with enough social pressure not to spill the beans, most of us will agree not to do...

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards could, if presented differently, have been a commentary on the social pressures facing men in society, the stigmatization of virginity, or the objectification of women in modern culture.

While making allusions to the American Dream, consumerism, and pressures of compliance to the social norms, she humanizes a stigmatized disease by relating her internal struggles to universal pains that many people face when trying to find their place in the world.

In the art world I feel there is this pressure to be social, that you have to meet a dealer or you have to meet people face to face and this man is a shy man and the art world doesn't quite accommodate itself to shyness.

In her photographic series Imagining Pontianak: I've Got Sunshine on a Cloudy Day (2016), Lann presents a contemporary portrayal of the Pontianak myth to elicit commentary on the challenges related to childbirth, sex and other social pressures that women face daily in Southeast Asia.