Sentences with phrase «problem of sexism»

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«Many years ago, I began to use the term «intersectionality» to deal with the fact that many of our social justice problems like racism and sexism are often overlapping, creating multiple levels of social injustice,» Crenshaw says.

This stubborn problem has remained for years despite more women joining the ranks of investors and increased awareness of the blatant sexism and sexual harassment female founders sometimes face when raising money.

The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.

Moreover, this constant process is carried out as Christians wrestle self - consciously with problems of importance, such as the environmental crisis, hunger, poverty, nuclear weapons capable of omnicide, sexism, racism, classism, and anti-Judaism.

Issues such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, handicapism, anthropocentrism, and whatever other «isms» we have devised toward the ill - being of peoples require more than an analysis of individual sin to account for the pervasiveness and depth of the problem.

The «homosexual problem» is really a «heterosexual problem», just as the «woman problem» is basically the problem of male sexism.

Racism, sexism, and a number of other issues are all problems that our parents and grandparents have grown up with.

With these performance assessments, students explore issues they are passionate about and work toward finding solutions to problems like sexism in video games and lack of access to reproductive health care.

Katherine Scott, director of programs at the Vanier Institute of the Family, says sexism is a big part of the problem — and she doesn't think that will change soon.

The lone black woman among those asked, curator Naomi Beckwith of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, says, «Sexism is a broad problem that can not be reduced to simply men oppressing women, but is about the set of expectations we have and the goals we set for each other that need serious reevaluation.»

«Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism... of sexism... of religious intolerance... of war... of gross economic inequality.

Regardless of whether you believe that the criticism of sexism in legal writing is unwarranted or overblown, your credibility as a legal writer depends on spotting these problem areas.