Sentences with phrase «for women in our society»

The current #MeToo moment is a rare inflection point for women in society, as we find ourselves in a broad and potentially game - changing conversation about how women are faring in the workplace and beyond.
Consider mentoring, volunteering and / or donating to your favorite women's empowerment related causes this month, to help those who may need a leg up and work to continue the momentum of progress for women in society.
Why just settle for women in your society?
There is still prejudice of men and discrimination for women in the society.
Haynes is a very perceptive and ultimately sympathetic director, a strong voice for women in society.
«And it really gave me a lot of compassion for women in our society,» she added.
That coupled with the change of traditional roles for women in society and more and more of them choosing to wait until their late 30's to start having children, so have a dog that is their «fur» baby.
The selected works drawn from the Library's extensive collections highlight the gradual broadening in both the private and public spheres of women's roles and interests, addressing such themes as evolving ideals of feminine beauty, new opportunities emerging for women in society, changes in gender relations and issues of human welfare.
It is the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society.
It is the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society.

Not exact matches

In the book, Helgesen and Goldsmith seem to anticipate the obvious objection: That it can't possibly be good for society, or for women, if women adopt the so - called leadership habits that so many find objectionable.
The data tells us that's harmful to society and bad for business, which is why I've spoken about the urgent need to invest in women in tech.
With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.
«And then, how do we get more women [involved]... It's my intuition that if women are equally involved in designing the new financial system it will be much better for society
The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.
So, it should come as no surprise that the hard work by our fundraising team paid off in a big way for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Man & Woman of the Year annual campaign.
«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»
In the Orlando area alone, teams volunteered at: Orlando Union Rescue Mission, The Mustard Seed of Central Florida, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, Grandma's House at Orlando Health and Rehabilitation Center, Give Kids the World, Westminster Care of Orlando Nursing Home, Ronald McDonald House, Girl Scouts of Citrus and The American Cancer Society, among others.
I grew up in the 1990s, in a very extreme group that would have liked to place the blame for all of society's woes squarely at the feet of miniskirt - and bikini - clad women.
Since 1972, about 26million women in the US have had their lives and their RIGHT TO CHOOSE to live taken away from them, the vast majority because they were considered inconvenient to society and because they could not speak for themselves.
Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.
The encyclical warned of four resulting trends: a general lowering of moral standards throughout society; a rise in infidelity; a lessening of respect for women by men; and the coercive use of reproductive technologies by governments.
We were just going to press with an issue that included an outstanding article by Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., on the second draft of «One in Christ Jesus: A Pastoral Response to the Concerns of Women for Church and Society
Several weeks back there was a bit of a dust - up in conservative Reformed Protestant circles over the following simple question: Does being a man or a woman have any ethical significance for the way we live together in civil society?
Pregnancy, however, falls comfortably into none of the usual definitions of disease: it is not a state inimical to the way one is supposed to feel; it is not a condition in which body components and systems are acting inharmoniously (to the contrary, infertility would more likely fall within that definition); it is not a state of abnormality — for the pregnant woman functions satisfactorily within society, and the social and physical environment tolerates the pregnant woman perfectly.
We must ensure that our Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman, the need for human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth about our sexual identity as male or female.
Nowhere has this worked better than in the Church in Society bureaucracy and its ally in this enterprise, the Commission for Women.
Hamed Shafia, his father, Mohammed, and his mother, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, were sentenced to life in prison for murder, with Judge Robert Maranger excoriating their «twisted notion of honor, a notion of honor that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honor that has absolutely no place in any civilized society
We will unite with women of faith to press for a more central role for faith in American society.
There is this woman — this small, unnoticed, uncared - for woman who hardly counted as a person in her society.
There are also the Society for Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Association a women's theological network, and an annual meeting of Christian philosophers in Oxford.
The report affirms feminist theology insofar as it is an aid to biblical interpretations that can be a part of a harmonized whole and insofar as it constitutes a call for equal treatment of women in church and in society.
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 loIn 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 loin 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 loin 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.
«As the Church, we offer a concept of the family rooted in the Book of Genesis, of the unity in the difference between man and woman, and the fruitfulness of this complementarity, and we recognise it as an asset for all, as the first natural society.
However, organizations like UN Women and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among others, have reported on studies that show how much of a vital contribution — and even complete shift in society — women make when they are educated and empowWomen and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among others, have reported on studies that show how much of a vital contribution — and even complete shift in societywomen make when they are educated and empowwomen make when they are educated and empowered.
They are angry at the independence that women have achieved in society and blame the advancement of women for their failures in life.
In certain countries, many women have no rights in society, are sold like cattle for a bride price, forced into sex slavery and in some places, not even allowed to show their face in publiIn certain countries, many women have no rights in society, are sold like cattle for a bride price, forced into sex slavery and in some places, not even allowed to show their face in publiin society, are sold like cattle for a bride price, forced into sex slavery and in some places, not even allowed to show their face in publiin some places, not even allowed to show their face in publiin public.
But to have an organisation such as the Law Society seeming to promote or encourage a policy which is inherently gender discriminatory in a way which will have very serious implications for women and possibly for children is a matter of deep concern.»
One just has to look at how women in todays most non-technological societies are treated to realize that it was most likely the same thing for women of Palestine that chose not to be active enough for Matthew, Mark, Luke & John to notice them.
We live in a society where «sex sells», where in tv, media, magazines, etc. women are seen as something men can use like a tool or plaything for their own pleasure (look at playboy!).
The accusation that the Church by the masculine nature of the language it has used of God has for centuries reflected and reinforced a patriarchal society, which has shut out female forms of self - representation and seen women in terms of male desire, is hard to refute.
For the woman in the crisis pregnancy, society is telling her there is no choice.»
For so long as women settle for a position of subordination in marriage, in the church, and in the economic order, we will be aiding and abetting the ills of racism, militarism, and all the other oppressive structures in our socieFor so long as women settle for a position of subordination in marriage, in the church, and in the economic order, we will be aiding and abetting the ills of racism, militarism, and all the other oppressive structures in our sociefor a position of subordination in marriage, in the church, and in the economic order, we will be aiding and abetting the ills of racism, militarism, and all the other oppressive structures in our society.
Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.
ANd in Luke 10.38 - 42 we see where Jesus specifically eschewed the traditional roles for women in Jewish society and said it was a better choice for a woman to choose to be alongside the men in actively participating as he carried out his ministry [rather than listening passively while serving the food to the men as Martha suggested that her sister Mary should be doing.]
Many people are still hoping that the church can meet the new challenges dramatized by the rising consciousness of women in search of spiritual rebirth for themselves and for all of human society.
The point the New Oxford Review is making in the ad is that liberals have consistently and successfully pressed for changes in our society that transform conduct that once caused women to be condemned as «whores» and «sluts» into behavior to be accepted and even encouraged as healthy.
She has formed her own theology as she has learned from a long tradition of Chinese Christian women who struggled «not only for their own liberation, but also for justice in church and society
It was a pretty common theme in mythology for male - dominated societies to place all the blame for hardship firmly on women.
Relationships with men and children may be vitally important to most women, but women also have a role to play in societyin every profession there is, society needs women's gifts for helping, serving, listening, and instructing.
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