Sentences with phrase «women over the course of a century»

It is an epic story: the struggle of thousands of men and women over the course of a century for very high stakes.

It is an epic story: the struggle of thousands of men and women over the course of a century for very high stakes.

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«When we think back over the centuries that Lloyd's has been doing business, of course we understand that women weren't even in the workplace for several hundred years,» said Beale.

She deftly summarizes the emergence of New York as the nation's economic capital, the history of debates over slavery, the emergence of the women's suffrage movement, and countless other currents, all of which shaped the 19th - century U.S. and the course of Beecher's life.

It has been pointed out that «over the course of the first centuries of the empire... the noun passio (also derived from the same verb «to suffer») came to have a positive valuation to refer to the «passionate» experience of heterosexual intercourse, where the inferior role was properly played by a woman and in which the man experienced his rightful pleasure.

Based on the life of 1930s advertising copy manager and poet Margaret Fishback, this novel vividly depicts an evolving New York City as well as the changing roles of women over the course of the 20th century.

As the restrictions placed on artistic practice began to wane over the course of the 19th century, women began to «strike out on their own.»