Sentences with phrase «roles for women»

I really enjoy non-fiction books about history, nature, biblical roles for women, home business, etc..

The stressfulness of daily social roles for women: Marital, occupational and household roles.

New global initiative aims to advance women's leadership in clean energy Sweden and Canada announced new global TCP to promote leadership roles for women in clean energy 8 June 2017

About celebrated roles for women, Soloski says, «This season, I've worried that we still need to approach female characters as victims to accept them as heroes.»

In the «Gender and Performativity» section, Martha Wilson's A Portfolio of Models, a series of seven photo - and - text works, further describes cultural constructions of roles for women: «These are the models society holds out to me: Goddess, Housewife, Working Girl, Professional, Earth Mother, Lesbian.

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.

If I have to sit through one more afternoon tea, listening to my simpering stepmother extoll the benefits of traditional roles for women, I fear I'll scream, «The world is changing.

Though it's 1958, southern Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the horizon.

McDonagh says he created Mildred in part as a corrective: He was «conscious» that his previous films, In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, were bereft of meaty roles for women.

(Black Panther seems to overcome the genre's long - standing neuroses around creating rounded, exciting roles for women by just getting on with it.)

It's often said that strong roles for women are rare nowadays, but three new movies — Under the Sand, Ghost World, and The Deep End — have the virtue of handing a juicy, sympathetic part to a talented actress and letting her run with it.

Katherine Heigl would just shut up if she knew what was good for her (even if there are no decent roles for women in Hollywood), the value of female film critics, and Don Draper, the perfect imperfect man.

It's hard to complain about anything in a year with so many great roles for women, both older and younger.

The scene and the movie are written by «Mistress America» star Greta Gerwig, and if the sequence flatters her, so what - Gerwig has addressed the problem of limited roles for women by writing her own.

Greta Gerwig is a bit of both - part of a generation of college - educated women (Amy Schumer, Zoe Kazan, Rashida Jones, Brit Marling) who have addressed the dearth of good roles for women by writing good roles for themselves.

Keira Knightley Says Streaming Services Are Helping Create More Compelling Roles for Women in Film — Sundance 2018

With nominees that included Mercedes McCambridge and famed theater actress Ethel Barrymore, the competition offered a fascinating cross-section of what late - 1940s Hollywood valued in roles for women, and what it overlooked.

Interview: Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke Talk «Mistress America», Roles for Women, Writing and Being Written About

They talked about roles for women, writing about people and being written about, and more.

What this all points to — a dearth of leading roles for women — is by no means a novel observation.

For over two decades, Olivier Assayas has provided complex, multi-dimensional roles for women, from Clotilde de Bayser in Winter's Child (1989) and Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep (1996) to Connie Nielsen in Demonlover (2002) and Juliette Binoche in Summer Hours (2008); the female lead in an Assayas film requires an actress of international standing at the top of her game.

Because there are few lead roles for women of colour.

Flynn has written an astounding variety of roles for women, and it's amazing — and depressing — just how refreshing an experience a Hollywood movie can be when the majority of the cast isn't male.

A Bad Moms Christmas makes the begrudging process somewhat easier, which is quite a feat considering that it adds in three major roles for women over 50.

Roles for women are much more frequently one - note, in my experience.

For the first time in quite a while, though, the film world has offered up what borders on an embarrassment of riches both in terms of meaty roles for women and talented actresses who can play those roles for all they're worth.

Since there are so few strong leading roles for women, actresses now must find their juice in the so - called «Supporting» categories.

But Telluride, and Venice before it, offers up so many great roles for women — so many brilliantly told films about real and imaginary women: a gay rising tennis star, a cleaning lady who falls in love with a monster, an aging movie star, a bratty teenager, a young Cambodian girl, and on and on it goes.

The «Eleanor Rigby» star talks to TheWrap about the perplexing lack of great roles for women, even when it makes financial sense

On the basis that there are so few substantial lead roles for women

For all the deserved talk about the dearth of meaningful roles for women in Hollywood, horror has actually done its part to correct that imbalance, earning accolades for actresses starting with The Bad Seed and Psycho and continuing with 1976's adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie, whose sole nominations were for Best Actress (Sissy Spacek) and Best Supporting Actress (Piper Laurie).

2014's Kingsman: The Secret Service had many things going for it, but despite the presence of Sophie Cookson's Roxy and Sofia Boutella's Gazelle, lots of good roles for women were not really among them.

I don't mean to diminish those nine performances — but it's no accident that this happens to women three times more often than men, simply because American films have so few great roles for women.

I loved Amy Poehler's impression of Brit actors doing an American accent in a pedantic, emphatic bass growl, the announcement that Wes Anderson arrived at the ceremony «on a bicycle made of antique tuba parts» and the fact that Boyhood «proves that there are still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you are under 40».

and hard - working Sebastián Lelio (Oscar - winner «A Fantastic Woman») offers two movies with strong roles for women: Julianne Moore in the English - language remake of «Gloria» and Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz in lesbian romance «Disobedience.»

The film makes solid points about the feminist case against firearms, then scrutinises these a little more closely, and backs its agenda up with its roles for women — Alison Pill's opposition turncoat is another case in point.

When the summer began, there was much consternation about the lack of visible or substantive roles for women in this year's crop of films.

Natalie Portman recently made her directorial feature debut with her adaptation of Amos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness, and spoke to Business Insider about how she sees the roles for women in Hollywood changing.

The most resonant roles for women centered on the sometimes loving, frequently fraught relationships between mother and daughter as displayed in such films as «The Florida Project» (where the roles were played by Bria Vinaite and Brooklynn Kimberly Prince); «Marjorie Prime» (Lois Smith and Geena Davis); «The Big Sick» (Holly Hunter and Zoe Kazan); and «Lady Bird» (Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan).

Watch: «Brooklyn» Star Saoirse Ronan on Instinct, Insecurity, and Meaty Roles for Women: «It's getting better»

Part of that was surely the fact that a movie with multiple significant roles for women age 50 or older was not something that came around very often.

With Judy Greer being the current centre of the ever - increasing storm over the poor state of roles for women in Hollywood (Jurassic World and Ant - Man... they aren't exactly «Judy Greer movies»), a new trailer showcasing both Judy and Natasha Lyonne in a comedy is hopefully a defiant YES on our patented trailer - judgment scale.

It's certainly true, if it even needs to be said, that great roles for women are far, far less common than they are for men.

That says something about the roles for women on TV vs. in film comedy.

Generally, the available roles for women are, in some way, an arm of or a dimension of a male character.

Jessica Lange returns again, largely because Horror Story quite frankly has some of the best roles for women in all of television, and she simply knocks it out of the park.

In the wake of ongoing allegations, how do we process Allen's reputation for writing award worthy roles for women?

The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that meaty roles for women quickly dry up when actresses reach a certain age.

Billy offers several asides to Marty over the course of the film, expanding on the lack of good roles for women, and the sexist component to moviemaking in general.

Boseman is surrounded by an exceptional cast, with particularly strong roles for women.