Sentences with phrase «traditional societies women»

In traditional societies women knew how to prepare for birth, and one of the most important measures in the last few weeks of pregnancy was to prepare the birth canal for delivery.

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Hi - tech development under globalisation is further marginalising the poorer sections of traditional society especially the dalits, the tribals, the fisherfolk and the women by destroying their traditional living and community life by alienating them from the land, the forest and the water sources by which they made their living.

ANd in Luke 10.38 - 42 we see where Jesus specifically eschewed the traditional roles for women in Jewish society and said it was a better choice for a woman to choose to be alongside the men in actively participating as he carried out his ministry [rather than listening passively while serving the food to the men as Martha suggested that her sister Mary should be doing.]

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.

Like the rest of society, the church is feeling the shaking of its foundations as women challenge their traditional roles with increasing vehemence.

One may say, the natural basis of life was protected in the traditional societies by the fisherfolk, the tribals, the women and the feminist principle of their living by nature.

No, because yesterday in the group discussion, women complained that all traditional societies were patriarchal in character and were oppressive of their personhood.

Clearly the «traditional» marriage in which it is automatically assumed that the man will earn the money and be more or less dominant and the woman will raise the children and be more or less submissive — which has been and still is the commonest pattern in Western society — is changing.

The fact that Jesus is on the side of women should be our source of encouragement and empowerment as we continue to serve God and strive for a full and equal ministry.81 Nothing, perhaps, was more shocking for his contemporaries than the freedom with which he associated himself with women, considering the inferior position of women in Jewish society.82 According to R. L. Hnuni, «male dominated cultural and traditional values and injunctions may put boundaries and debar them from full ministry, but this should not discourage women's conviction and commitment to full ministry.

In the end, it will, we may be sure, reassert itself: but only because of the many human casualties which will emerge as our deeply confused society blunders around, continuing to undermine the stability of the traditional family based on marriage between a man and a woman.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

The dalits, the tribals, the fisherfolk and women who have been outside the power - structures of traditional society and state have become more oppressed through technological advance giving their traditional oppressors more power.

Coping with the contrast between their traditional nonaggressive role in society and the no - holds - barred climate on the court leads to some interesting discussions, like what happens when women start beating up on men.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

In traditional societies, girls learned about childbirth by watching other women deliver.

But women in traditional societies can breast feed in the fields, in the market place, anywhere women traditionally go.

His whole thesis depends on comparing American women to non-human primates and to women in «traditional» societies.

For a mobile, urbanizing society, it was the equivalent of a traditional situation in which a new mother could turn to her own mother or other women for the same kind of support.

On the flip side, even in more progressive societies, men may be subject to disapproval for being the stay - at - home parent, while a woman may be described as «old - fashioned» or «backward» if she adheres to a more traditional «housewife» role.

The seminar was to engage municipal agriculture directors, district officials, youth and women groups, party activists, traditional leaders and civil society groups in the District and across the Region to explore potentials in the agriculture sector for employment creation and to reduce poverty and dependency resulting from unemployment.

The married women tend to remain in the tents, out of public sight, as is traditional in Islamic societies.

This supports recent research suggesting that younger adult women in traditional societies avoid plant toxins like nicotine to protect infants from harmful biochemicals, but that older women can consume these intoxicants as needed or desired.»

The society in Ukraine and Russia is pretty traditional and it is considered unethical for women to present themselves in this way online.

While society frowns on many things that aren't traditional and never standard, it is very common to see men or women dating someone who is some twenty years younger than them.

You should remember the fact that Russian women usually have traditional view on the roles of man and woman in the society.

Even Russian women that come from traditional and patriarchal society are shocked by male domination in Japan.

Even though Russia is still a strongly traditional society and a mother remains by far the dominant female archetype in Russian culture, historically women in Russia often have had to take on greater responsibility for the family and learn to survive due to country numerous wars, revolutions and economic collapses.

Women coming from more traditional societies, such as in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean, are often being compared by mostly Western The Catholic Church has a long history of helping couples to prepare for marriage.

It acknowledges and celebrates everything from traditional African society to African - American political debates, from the power and beauty of black women to the preservation of identity, all within the lush confines of the fictional African nation of Wakanda.

Here, she offers a woman's perspective on having kids, being questioned about having kids, and traditional women's roles within society and marriage.

She began her painting journey at the age of 10 after she underwent the traditional Ndebele practice in which young women are cloistered from society for a few months and taught the traditional craft of beadwork and mural paintings.

When reading books of this era, I always wonder how I would have fared in those times - I am not one to bow to convention, and I can always identify with women who are stifled by their traditional roles in society.

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.

To function successfully as a woman artist one needs to give permission to oneself, have support from partner & loved ones and the nod, in society as a whole, to separate from family committments and traditional roles.

It is about traditional gender roles in our society, and demonstrates how women artists have challenged and revised our ideas about women, home and hearth.

«Today, terminology for women has been and is being rapidly expanded, enriched and changed in a more and more diversified fashion; manifesting the transformation from passive to positive involvement of women in society... Of course, in the present male dominated society, the traditional cognition of women is still the mainstream.»

In fact, traditional gender roles such as those seen in non - Western societies, with women staying home to care for a newborn while men work, have been found to produce less decline in martial satisfaction as compared to Western couples with non-traditional roles (Levy - Shiff, 1994).