Sentences with phrase «outsider status helped»

Rhee's outsider status helped her enact reforms against these nonsensical circumstances and brave the repugnance of the Washington Teachers» Union, Washington Post columnists, and city council members.

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The professors in residence have the expertise to help educators grow in their practice, but their outsider status and distance from the evaluation process enable teachers to feel safe accepting their help.

Greenberg later admitted Sobel's work was the first example of all - over painting he'd seen.5 It's not totally clear why Sobel faded from visibility, but one can assume her virtual - outsider status and the fact that she was a homemaker in the 1940s didn't help her cause in the male - dominated world of abstract expressionism.

With a still - considerable imbalance in gender equality, do all - women shows help correct this pervasive disparity or do they reinforce women's status as an outsider?