Sentences with phrase «still societal expectations»

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However, he lacks self - confidence and is still feeling his way around societal expectations.

For example, I have known some women with 4 cm separations postpartum to have a «flat» stomach (as defined by societal expectations), be pain - free and still be able to perform very physically strong feats.

When I began talking with others about what I'd been through — what I was still going through despite societal expectations of the grief timeline — I began to realize that so many women carry this sorrow inside themselves.

And she reminded me there is still a battle each of us are fighting — societal pressures, familial expectations, career stereotypes, you name it — but all of these pale in comparison with the battle we often face with ourselves.

Floating wind power is fast taking shape as a mainstream energy source, with analysts upgrading their expectations of market - size — though still far short of Statoil's forecasts — from early estimates of 3.5 GW by 2030 to around 5GW, led by the geographic fact that 60 - 80 % of world's offshore wind resource is in water too deep for bottom - fixed turbines, and the societal reality that ever - vaster populations are going to be inhabiting coastal mega-cities.

Nonetheless, the extent to which practices have caught up with societal expectations of more equal parenting is contested, and research suggests that fathers still generally work longer hours than mothers, are less likely to take up parental leave, and spend less time than mothers with their children (Devreux, 2007; Doucet, 2013; Hook & Wolfe, 2012; McMunn, Martin, Kelly & Sacker, 2015).