Sentences with phrase «woman running a gauntlet»

Sebastian Lelio's story of a Spanish trans woman running a gauntlet of hostility and abuse from her dead lover's family cuts to the core of our expectations about equality or mere civilised behaviour (its Spanish title is Una Mujer Fantastica).

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«I think it's fair to say that the women who have run the gauntlet and gotten advanced STEM degrees will find the labor market quite welcoming if they choose to seek employment in academic STEM jobs,» writes Jennifer Glass, a sociologist at the University of Texas, Austin, in an e-mail.

There is a history of this sort of thing, of course: the 1991 Navy Tailhook scandal, in which female recruits were forced to run a «gauntlet» that amounted to a gang rape; the 1996 accusations of 30 women at the Army Aberdeen Proving Ground; the 142 allegations over a decade at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, which finally surfaced in 2003.

With its teenage protagonist, Maybe A Miracle has the potential to appeal to readers from the older teens through to adults, both men and women; and with subject matter that runs the gauntlet of hot topic subjects, including religion and politics, this is also a shoe - in for book clubs who enjoy a little contention in their reading matter... (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Team).