Sentences with phrase «imposed on women»

I feel the case can be made that the stressors imposed on men can be different in some ways than those imposed on women, generally.

Inspired by the feminist masterpiece The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, this exhibition featured artists who have risen above the narrow roles imposed on women and whose work has challenged the status quo, particularly within the canons of art history.

Borrowing from the glossy and colorful aesthetics of advertising and repetitive motifs created by digital technology and mass media, the worlds depicted in Okubo's paintings frequently deflect the viewer's attention from the contradictions between beauty and femininity imposed on women and the vulnerabilities that are exacerbated by a need to conform.

«Jettisoning the silence that has been imposed on women of all races and religions and classes and sexual orientations is important for all of these artists,» said Deborah Frizzell, an independent curator who organized the exhibition with guest curator Harry J. Weil, and Wave Hill's senior curator Jennifer McGregor and curator of visual arts Gabriel de Guzman.

Streep's performance as Graham, fighting the demure status imposed on women in the 1970s, is good even by her standards.

That does not include the costs born by other health insurance providers, not to mention the out - of - pocket costs and high levels of anxiety imposed on women who are recalled for further tests.

What has happened is that a male model of physiological activity is being imposed on women in childbirth.

In 2007 the Committee used the same justification to attack Honduras» restrictive abortion laws, recommending «that the State party consider reviewing the law relating to abortion with a view to identifying circumstances under which abortion could be permitted, such as therapeutic abortions and abortions in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and removing punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion, in line with the Committee's general recommendation 24...»

A whole mind - set is being socially imposed on women today.

A popular guest on radio and TV talk shows, she is known for her flamboyant critiques of American society, such as The Beauty Myth, an attack on the standards of beauty imposed on women.

It is women who are taking the lead in this global struggle, because feminization of poverty, violence against women, dehumanizing treatment of women and all other forms of pains imposed on women drive them to fight back.

The goal of the WCM initiative is to tackle the «mid-career drift» too often imposed on women after taking time off to have children, while helping banks hold on to valuable talent.

It strikes me, in reading Snyder's collected stories, that the «cool kids» of tech are imposing on women the lousy environment they once suffered through — back when they were the nerds who got teased and hassled.

It is a symptom of the segregation they desire to impose on women.

I am not Chad but, at the same time it seems you want to know if it is right to impose on women to take responsibility for their actions.

But «locking up formula» is so much easier, because it only imposes on women and not the almighty businesses.

I feel like the birth control pill is the largest endocrinopathy that we are imposing on women in the world.

Family obligations that men impose on women hinder them from climbing the stairs of leadership, even if these women manifest remarkable ability, especially in education.

Your goal is essentially to impose on women in a variety of everyday situations to get them to want to date you or be with you.

The Quebec restriction on name change after marriage is often defended as a feminist move against the patriarchal notion that women must take their husband's name, but are the limits imposed on a woman's choice to change her name not just as patriarchal?

Not exact matches

«The conflation of STEM experience with ability to be «in tech» is something that seems to happen far more frequently (and reflexively) where women are concerned — yet it's a standard that is not similarly imposed on the many, many male entrepreneurs and VCs who participate in the industry,» wrote Rachel Sklar, founder of TheList.

For example, if a company imposed Victorian standards on women but put no limits at all on what men could wear, that would be unfairly discriminatory.

Perhaps the most politically volatile coming Supreme Court case is Whole Woman's Health v. Lakey, which will decide whether dozens of abortion clinics throughout Texas can remain open — a decision that probably will affect other conservative states that have in recent years imposed harsh restrictions on abortion clinics.

«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.»

Taking the example of the Quebec Liberal government's austerity agenda, Lanctôt explained how major cutbacks in the health and social services sector have imposed an unsustainable burden on both those who provide and those who use the services, the majority of whom are women.

President Donald Trump chose Powell, a Fed board member, to replace Yellen, the first woman to lead the central bank, after saying he wanted to impose his own stamp on the Fed.

It is christians who are out attempting to impose their views (ie: denial of gay rights b / c their book apparently says so; denial of women's rights; using the threat of hell; teaching dis - proven creationism to innocent children) on the public.

In general, when a Christian church uses the political arena to impose actions on women without corresponding actions on men, do you feel feminists need to respond as Christians, or as citizens?

For example, where Yahweh presumably tells the Israelites to kill every Canaanite in sight — men, women and children — and then has them impose a ban on every pagan town, telling the Israelites to enter, burn, and destroy everything in sight (e.g., Joshua 6 - 7).

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.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a person who would consider having an abortion, but at the same time, I would never impose my view on another woman.

It could still be argued that these roles impose strain on womanly nature; that they are not what women are made for; that they show a certain lack of respect for God's work of creation; that in fulfilling them a woman is likely to treat men maternally, which will impose undue strain on masculine nature; and that the woman's womanly dignity and worth are to some extent at risk while she does these jobs; but it could not be maintained that she and those who gave her her role have sinned by disobeying God's command.

Just a bunch of murderous thugs who want to impose Islam on the world and treat women like cows.

The fashionable latter term, in any case, should probably be resisted because it makes the assumption that any text that uses «he» for God or «man» for humankind automatically imposes a feeling of exclusion on the women who try to read it.

Andrew Bennett, Canada's ambassador for religious freedom, said his country is «shocked and appalled» that Sudan would impose the death penalty on a pregnant woman merely for practicing her religion.

We believe that imposing this burden on our men and women in uniform would undermine recruiting and retention, impact leadership at all levels, have adverse effects on the willingness of parents who lend their sons and daughters to military service, and eventually break the All - Volunteer Force.

The congressional bans on abortion funding impose a particular religious or moral viewpoint on those women who rely on government - funded health care.

She continues, «God listened to the cry of our people, became an ally of the poor and the exploited, and frees woman from the chains imposed on her with cruelty for centuries.»

I said the christians want to impose their view on the rest of us — school curricula, displays on civic buildings, bells ringing for services, who can marry whom, who controls a woman's body, etc

Francis concludes further «The best way to restore men and women to their rightful place» is to reaffirm an understanding of a supreme Creator God — «Otherwise, human beings will always try to impose their own laws and interests on reality.»

We can not help but remark that had the woman demanded a late - term abortion, she wouldn't be facing any legal troubles at all - which underscores the nutty convolutions of logic that abortion imposes on society.

So women should get to pass laws to impose our wishes on men.

Overturning a lower court's decision that ruled that the laws unconstitutionally limited access to abortion in the state, New Orleans - based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote, «on its face does not impose an undue burden on the life and health of a woman.»

She is imposing her choices on women everywhere.

It seems to me that it is the woman with the two children - the one who wants to raise her children «secular» - who is the one imposing her beliefs on the majority.

Cormac Burke FAITH MAGAZINE July - August 2013 In his continuing series on woman and the cardinal virtues Mgr Burke examines the virtue of prudence and its specific calls upon women to see beyond socially imposed expectations.

And a right to bodily privacy is by any intelligent choice better for a woman on her own conscience than any government can try to impose.

Feminists who claim that women are denied access to their own reality are supported by Whitehead's insistence that implicit notions of what is important are embedded in language, thereby imposing perspectives of importance on what is experienced (MT 15).

One is born «neuter,» and it is society that imposes a male identity on each man because of his masculine sex and a female identity on each woman because of her feminine sex, with all the inequalities implied in this difference.

According to them, one is born «neuter,» and it is society that imposes a male identity on each man because of his masculine sex and a female identity on each woman because of her feminine sex, with all the inequalities implied in this difference.