Sentences with phrase «society women at»

The fitted blazer and long pencil skirt was worn by several actresses and society women at the time.

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To a large extent, society pats men on the back for holding down big jobs, but grimaces at women who do the same, implying that they're lousy parents.

In Canada, the report notes, unlike in the U.S., there have been strong efforts to emphasize diversity at the highest levels of government and society, most notably that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who appointed 15 men and 15 women to cabinet positions.

I also like to look at the single mom statistics, since single women who heads a household is part of a growing component of our society.

The grand jury estimated Gosnell took in at least $ 1.8 million a year, mostly in cash, using figures provided by Women's Medical Society staff.

Gosnell is also accused of running an absolutely filthy clinic — known as the Women's Medical Society — that had untrained staff give at least one patient a fatal dose of the painkiller Demerol.

The next evening, more than 500 people, mostly women and children, began arriving at medical centers in Douma showing symptoms consistent with exposure to a chemical agent, according to Syrian American Medical Society, a relief organization.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

Critics accused her of focusing on strategies individual women could take to get ahead at large corporations, at the expense of acknowledging sexism throughout society.

The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.

In the Orlando area alone, teams volunteered at: Orlando Union Rescue Mission, The Mustard Seed of Central Florida, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, Grandma's House at Orlando Health and Rehabilitation Center, Give Kids the World, Westminster Care of Orlando Nursing Home, Ronald McDonald House, Girl Scouts of Citrus and The American Cancer Society, among others.

I grew up in the 1990s, in a very extreme group that would have liked to place the blame for all of society's woes squarely at the feet of miniskirt - and bikini - clad women.

That said, the woman at the synagogue was drawing attention to a real change in our society.

Leaving aside the manifold ways in which stay - at - home moms are utterly crucial to their families (some of which — to be sure — can be replaced, however imperfectly, with paid labor of one sort or another), there is this: could the many institutions of our civil society continue to function without the tireless efforts of women who don't regularly participate in the working world?

Furthermore, Steve, by your logic, marrying can't be good at all: since marrying a woman isn't good for women, and what is good is good for everyone, than marrying a woman can't be good for men or for society as a whole; and likewise marrying a man can't be good either.

«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»

«Friday prayers bring all people of a society together at one time - rich or poor, man or woman, senior citizen or young child,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com.

In truth, society at large has always treated women as inferior.

How much the men and women of our time need to reappropriate this fundamental truth, which stands at the foundation of society, and how important is the witness of married couples for the formation of sound consciences and the building of a civilisation of love!»

They are angry at the independence that women have achieved in society and blame the advancement of women for their failures in life.

At the same time, it was clear that, for all their wrong - headed and occasionally malicious attacks on the Church, these ladies were giving voice to something which was also generally felt within society and particularly by younger women who knew nothing of the Network or its antics but who were not comfortable with answering the Church's critics.

Old explanations said women were less educated, or cited their nurturing tasks at home and secondary roles in society.

Such are the expectations of our society that for some reason a drunken man, though laughed at, is tolerated, but a drunken woman is not only laughed at but also despised.

One just has to look at how women in todays most non-technological societies are treated to realize that it was most likely the same thing for women of Palestine that chose not to be active enough for Matthew, Mark, Luke & John to notice them.

We live in a society where «sex sells», where in tv, media, magazines, etc. women are seen as something men can use like a tool or plaything for their own pleasure (look at playboy!).

Remember, morals change in society; look at the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and civil rights movement, all of them originally didn't have «morality» on their side, but as society changed, the morals changed.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Jewish society was strongly male - centric, and women were second, maybe thrid class «citizens at best.

There's an episode called «Half Hanged» about a woman in western Massachusetts in the 1680s who is one of those outsiders: outspoken, non-religious, cranky, broke all the rules that governed women in her society at the time.

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

There is research to show that the rhythm of the lives of adult men and women in our society is determined largely by career patterns at work and expectations of self - fulfillment, especially sexual fulfillment, in their personal lives.

Projecting one's own beliefs to society at large, even going so far as to make up false resons that can not be backed up by fact, «women are seen as objects», as to why others should do the same, is just plain odd.

How on earth will any woman feel warmth and love at Church when people are over run with patriarchal ideas of what a woman «should be», when societies all over the world have different cultural aspects of what is considered «appropriate wear» for women.

You used to run into people in the bake shop, the butchers, the candle - stick maker, the church narthex and the women's relief society... So there were plenty of opportunities to discuss all manner of things and to share life, seasons, festivals, deaths... Modern life, suburbia, commuting, everyone working at all hours... has killed much of this face to face life and contact in so many spheres, depending on where you live.

Our society reinforces in women dependent, exploitative and defensive behaviors aimed at procuring conventional and stereotyped rewards....

When I looked at his full ministry — how he praised and esteemed women in leadership in the Church, how he turned household codes within a patriarchal society on their head, how he used feminine metaphors, how he subverted the systems, how he passionately defended equality — the verses that used to clobber me began to embrace me.

We do not want our public officials to preach at us, but we do want to be assured that they are godly men and women and that ours is a society that acknowledges the rule of God.

Nanny sees society as a hierarchy, with black women at the bottom.

In many societies worldwide, the story of the Samaritan woman at the well can still startle.

The judges at the appeal court in Porto, Portugal's second - largest city, wrote that they were making reference to the Bible and an old law «to stress that a woman's adultery amounts to conduct which society has always condemned and condemned very strongly».

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.

It's no wonder women feel like they have been made inferior to men and it doesn't help the church to shout scripture at them which appears to cast them as inferior while doing nothing to improve what is ailing us in society.

The case has been made that childhood was invented — which it was, at least in the sense that certain societies began to feel that young children should be excluded from the workforce, and women with them, to some extent at least.

I strongly support women at all levels of leadership in the church, home, and society, and am suspicious of anyone who would claim that the Bible presents just one «right way» to be woman.

It is old white men losing their control of society as a whole and they are just grasping at memories of the good old days... blacks were owned, women had no rights, the world was flat, the earth was the center of the universe...

One specific area of concern at the moment is the widespread oppression of women in both the church and society.54

I suppose that is why the ordination of women is finally, for me, an, inadequate expression of the essence of feminine theology, just as obtaining the vote in patriarchal societies proved illusory in terms of granting women civil liberties at the beginning of the century.

Many women who espouse the prolife position do so, at least in part, because they have internalized patriarchal values and depend on the sense of identity and worth that comes from having accepted «woman's place» in society.

It should be borne in mind, in the second place, that there continued to exist within the Islamic Society churches, monasteries, synagogues, and temples serving Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others; that all these survived, not as ghost communities or depressed classes, but as communities of living men and women who pursued their callings, professed their faith openly, and entered into polemics in defense of it; who continued to develop their religious, philosophical, and scientific legacies; and who were at all times in communication with their Muslim neighbors.

Your Sophia picture illustrates this so well, but also speaks deeply on another level, of the bondage of women by various means, withing relationships, within organized religion, but also within society at large.