Sentences with phrase «sexism which»

Set of resources geared towards GCSE students on the topics of sexism which includes a presentation and several reading and grammar activities.

Not exact matches

Appthority's Uber findings come after a series of public relations fiascos for the ride - hailing company, which has had to deal with allegations of sexism, sexual harassment, government circumvention, and trade secret theft in the past month.

If you downplay your minority identity, you're running the risk of joining an organization with a culture of racism, sexism, elitism, or simply one in which you can't be your authentic self.

The lawsuit comes after a week of grueling headlines for Uber, which has been dealing with claims of widespread sexism and sexual harassment by a former employee.

There is also a report coming soon with the results of an investigation led by former Attorney General Eric Holder into the company's management culture — which was spurred by allegations of sexism and other criticisms of company culture.

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly five months of digging into Uber's internal culture, its new chief human resources officer says the ride - hailing company's treatment of women — which gave it a public black eye after charges of persistent sexism and discrimination were detailed by a former employee — is no worse at Uber than at other companies.

McClendon's is the latest in a series of departures from the company, which has been shaken by recent accusations of sexual harassment and sexism, leading CEO Travis Kalanick to admit he needs to «grow up» and commit to hiring a chief operating officer.

The lawsuit comes just days after Uber unveiled the results of an investigation into its company culture and management, which was prompted by a female engineer's account of sexism and sexual harassment she experienced while at the company.

I have come to the conclusion that the fundamental evil from which the others flow is sexism.

It's circular... our society is entrenched in sexism, which was nourished by the bible and christianity, which was nourished by the culture of its day.

Although it is a byproduct of worship, which exists for its own sake, constant exposure to words, actions and roles within the worshiping community does more to reinforce a Christian's attitudes about justice than anything else the church does (see my articles «The Words of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» Dec. 13, 1978, and «The Actions of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» May 7, 1980).

Can the communities of the poor which are irrupting throughout the Third World be the basis for a new «people's theology» which seek to liberate humanity from all forms of oppression: poverty, servitude, racism, sexism, and the like?

She practiced what she preached in a separate thread, in which she used Twitter for a little public confession and repentance (there's a novel use of social media), asking God for forgiveness for «ways I've been complicit in & contributed to misogyny & sexism in the church by my cowardly and inordinate deference to male leaders in order to survive.»

By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.

In many parts of the world, women are still oppressed, and in Western society sexism is still rampant The contemporary American theologian Charlene Spretnak quotes figures which indicate that one in every three women in the USA will be raped during her lifetime, and that one woman is physically beaten every fourteen seconds in the USA.

Never once do I malign him, but I do go after his words which might betray an underlying sexism that he isn't aware of that infected his article.

[Benevolent sexism] did relate to rape myth acceptance in cases of acquaintance rape (Abrams et al., 2003), which accounts for about two thirds of all rapes committed (U.S. Department of Justice, 2005; RAINN 2012).

«The Concerned Asian, Black, Latin @, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently - Abled students at Dartmouth College» storm President Phil Hanlon's office with a list of seventy counts of «racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism,» of which, they claim, the college is guilty.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

It is crucial to interrelate the manifold contexts in which people are striving to transcend concretely the injustices of classism, racism, sexism, technocentrism, and militarism.

If we respond positively to this new sense of humanity, then we will work with intentionality toward the realization of genuine social pluralism — the type of pluralism which avoids racism, sexism, and other social ills which perpetuate forms of social injustice.

We who are married can help to overcome sexism, the prejudice and discrimination against women most obviously, but also against men, which blocks human becoming on a massive scale.

They can be challenged to work in projects to improve their community through political and social action, to help eradicate sexism, racism, ageism (discrimination against aging persons), and poverty, all of which damage marriages and families.

But what about the sexism from which that spoke?

Systemic change which stops short of addressing sexism is, incomplete and embodies an ideological contradiction.

They experience triple oppression: classism, racism and sexism, which are intertwined.

As thinkers in moral philosophy such as Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be made.

The confirmation class is another setting in which young people can focus on the issues of sexism in the Bible, in theology, and in the church.

Special groups in which consciousness raising is the primary focus are the most direct way of getting at the issues of sexism.

Can the communities of the poor which are irrupting throughout the Third World be the basis for a new «peoples theology» which seek to liberate humanity from all forms of oppression: poverty, servitude, racism, sexism, and the like?

The same goes for «Not to be racist or anything...» and other similar phrases, which are almost always code for «Here comes the sexism / racism.»

Incidents of sexism and homophobia also rose amongst the figures, which cover both professional and grassroots football.

Aside from the weekly topical news agenda, the show has covered some really important issues over the years; including doping, sexism, motherhood, equal pay, body image, women in the boardroom and eating disorders — which included some incredibly brave and frank interviews from Chrissie Wellington and Allie Outram

Tempers were running high in the Commons this afternoon over a sexism row - which got so heated Speaker John Bercow allowed the phrase «lynch the bitch» to pass without question.

I see these projects — both of which engage with deeply rooted institutional racism and sexism — as closely related, simultaneous efforts to decolonise the university.

A more holistic approach — one capable of ending sexism and sexual violence within military practices — would be to acknowledge the values intrinsic in militarism that condone and promote an idea of hypermasculinity, which is determined upon one's ability to express power through the devaluation of others by committing acts of violence.

The last to go, Caroline Flint, looked rather silly as her charge of Mr Brown's sexism, which could be justified, turned into a complaint of «Me, me, me.»

«We fully embrace the spirit of the letter, which is a call for the UFC and all corporations — sports, entertainment and otherwise — operating in New York State and throughout the United States to do their part to root out speech and conduct derogatory toward women or that in any way perpetuates an environment that condones violence toward women, racism, sexism, homophobia, and relgious bigotry.

But DeRosa's appointment came with questions about potential conflicts arising from her father's lobbying (he now leads an independent firm; the administration says she recuses herself where there are conflicts) which were exacerbated by sexism.

Despite the loftiness of much left - wing rhetoric, sexism, racism and homophobia have never successfully been eliminated from socialist politics for the simple reason that these movements reflect the societies in which they were conceived.

Only by confronting sexism and gender bias head - on will we be able to truly create a culture which respects everyone equally.

«I suppose it's somehow less hurtful to accuse hundreds of thousands of people of sexism than it is to pick on a specific person,» he writes, pointing out that Miller lacks a «coherent argument,» her case resting on a questionable analogy to the 2008 Obama / Clinton race, which Miller asserts Obama won purely because of sexist attacks on Hillary.

What would an alternate model look like, in which these groups worked on immediate strategies for dealing with daily sexism as well as long - term solutions for the issues facing women working in the sciences?

Bushman said it was significant that males who played one of the Half Life games — which were violent but didn't have a sexist component — didn't show the same lack of empathy as those who played the GTA games that combined sexism and violence.

The phrase is a fine combination of old - fashioned sexism and convenient biology - speak which, by reducing human individuals to a biological organism, «man», sweeps away social complexities and confines debate to the simplicities of what we often call «nature».

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

The incident occurred amid a festival at which many influential industry players, from Salma Hayek to «Carol» producer Christine Vachon, were speaking out against sexism, gender inequality and a lack of opportunity for women.

Part of what enabled this kind of behaviour to flourish is an endemic culture of Hollywood sexism, which Ringwald exemplifies with this anecdote about an unidentified «head of a major studio» who, after she put her acting career on hold and moved to Paris, was quoted as saying «I wouldn't know [Molly Ringwald] if she sat on my face.»

The film is structured as a triptych in which each segment stars a different actress (Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and Reichardt regular Michelle Williams), and investigates class division, sexism and unrequited attraction all through her trademark wide - angle prism, via conversations in which the participants talk «past each other.»

That's the basic premise of NBC's engaging, fed - up - with - sexism crime caper «Good Girls» (premiering Monday), which uses the word «good» in a bluntly equivocal sense, referring to three suburban women (why girls?)