Matthew Goodman's very readable Eighty Days is an excellent source for anyone interested in women in America's history, particularly
young women of today.
Not exact matches
Monster spoke with Bennett about the nature
of today's challenges for
young women at work and how to come out swinging.
Today's
young women do want to talk about the realities and tensions that have emerged from the feminist debates
of recent years.
Many
young men and
women of 18
today have told me that they have had no definite teaching in their faith since the age
of 12... just endless sociological dialogue.
Endless talk
of «choices» can itself be confusing and worrying - for both men and
women alike - and a real difficulty for
young people in the West
today is that
of making a definite commitment: to a job, to a way
of life, and, very notably, to marriage.
Pope Benedict has spoken
of this and followed up with practical and assertive statements emphasising the real needs and aspirations
of today's
young men and
women.
Dorothy Dohen had something to say to the
young women who
today are often ashamed
of their virginity, some
of whom take refuge in a form
of defensive lesbianism, discovering no legitimate way they can defend themselves against the importuning
of aggressive (and also vulnerable) men.
Large numbers
of new vocations for
women today come from Africa, where
young women choose becoming a nun as a way to escape crushing poverty and to get an education.
Young men and
women today feel themselves challenged to identify themselves with the community and institution devoted to the service
of God rather than with an ideal; the human need
of which they are made aware is one that only the community can minister to; the words through which they hear the Word
of God addressed to them are likely to be the words
of the Church.
When we speak about abortion
today, we are speaking to
women who have had abortions; to men who have asked
women to have abortions; to
young people who have lost brothers and sisters to abortion; and to the mothers and fathers, friends and neighbors
of those
women and men.
'' So
today's would - be Lysistratas need to develop ways
of stigmatizing
young women who too readily say yes to sex, just as unions do to scabs and strikebreakers.
Young women today typically live with the sort
of sexual objectification that folklore and literature associate with death.
In
today's culture the language
of spousal love is unlikely to be the most obvious way in which a
young woman will understand or express her love for Christ, much less His relationship to her.
The ideal
woman was not a flesh and blood
woman, she was portrayed as sweet, passive, docile, compliant, obedient, virginal, and unreal, hardly the qualities that would empower
younger females
today to break out
of their stereotypical expectations.
Rhonda Kelley, co-editor
of the New Evangelical
Women's Commentary, said this of young Christian women today: «Not only do they not have a framework, but in many situations our women students have been raised by mothers who were a product of the feminist move
Women's Commentary, said this
of young Christian
women today: «Not only do they not have a framework, but in many situations our women students have been raised by mothers who were a product of the feminist move
women today: «Not only do they not have a framework, but in many situations our
women students have been raised by mothers who were a product of the feminist move
women students have been raised by mothers who were a product
of the feminist movement.
In the coming years, as
today's
young men and
women take up their responsibilities and seek to make sense
of the world, it will not be adequate if Catholics who are worried - as we all ought to be - about the sexual mayhem that has been created in recent years simply denounce the evils
of extreme feminism or even
of the ghastly contraceptive, anti-life culture with which it has been associated.
Here again, I think
young people and especially
young women today are cheated
of truth, are brought up to think first and foremost
of careers, with the expectation that marriage and family will somehow just happen at the right time.
Do
young women today regard their life in the light
of such ideals?
One
of the best racers was a British
woman named Audrey Sale - Barker, and a description
of her from a contemporary account (1929) is fascinating — if only to see how this rather pale and ethereal
young thing contrasts with the sturdy, hard - schussing
women downhillers
of today: «Audrey Sale - Barker was very tall, extremely slim... with pale honey - colored hair, a vague, dreamy expression, and when she skied I can only describe her as a sleepwalker.
Happily, that's different
today and we're having more conversations with girls, but, I think, one
of the things that gets in the way
of young women is that we don't expect enough from them.
But for
today's
young women, that's no longer so — many have careers, property and rich, full lives before they couple, and yet they still give up parts
of what they loved about single life and who they were for the sake
of marriage.
Today, the best
young talented men are, not surprisingly, having children with some
of the most talented
women, who themselves have demanding careers.
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Commentary on an article in the New York Times (registration required for the NY Times article) which suggests that
young women today are putting more into their careers because
of a desire to achieve success before having children.
Joined by
Woman's Luge Olympic Bronze Medalist Erin Hamlin
of Remsen and Mayor Robert Palmieri
of Utica, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente,
today announced that
young Oneida County athletes who want to... Read more
Today, Ferreras is the first
woman, first person
of color and the
youngest City Councilmember to be elected as Finance Chair.
«When I can bring a
young woman here
today, let her see and rub elbows with these people, let her see other
women particularly who are using their minds and their hands and their brilliant ideas to create a product but also jobs, I wanted her to see that she has the possibility
of being part
of it,» Hochul said.
Far more important to me is what drives healthy
young women like 25 year old Dusty Radar (profiled in
today's Hartford Courant) to cut off their breasts, inject themselves with an amount
of testosterone not intended for their bodies (whose long - term consequences are unknown) and possibly sterilize themselves with unnecessary hysterectomies in order to become a pseudo-man i.e., a transman.
Separate research commissioned by a coalition
of women and human rights groups revealed
today that six in ten
young women believed they had personally experienced sexist remarks or behaviour, including being whistled at, touched inappropriately or discriminated against because
of gender.
The IET is
today calling on successful
young female engineers to enter its Young Women Engineer of the Year Awards and demonstrate to young girls that engineering is a diverse and exciting industry offering creative and challenging car
young female engineers to enter its
Young Women Engineer of the Year Awards and demonstrate to young girls that engineering is a diverse and exciting industry offering creative and challenging car
Young Women Engineer
of the Year Awards and demonstrate to
young girls that engineering is a diverse and exciting industry offering creative and challenging car
young girls that engineering is a diverse and exciting industry offering creative and challenging careers.
However, even before
today's NEC meeting, some groups like the Ashanti Youth Association,
Young Executives Forum
of NPP, Ashanti Market
Women Association and other pro-NPP groups warned the party to back off the decision to suspend Kwabena Agyapong or risk disintegrating the party ahead
of the 2016 elections.
Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito assembled a coalition
of female activists
today to launch the
Young Women's Initiative — a group she said would combat racial and gender inequality and be the first of its kind in a nation with many similar initiatives aimed at young men of c
Young Women's Initiative — a group she said would combat racial and gender inequality and be the first
of its kind in a nation with many similar initiatives aimed at
young men of c
young men
of color.
We want to be informed by the experiences
of young women today,
of what they're living and what they feel is missing in terms
of the way
of how the city is serving them,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.
«
Today was about creating a connection between a group
of young women activists, and they can connect us to other
young women activists, who can talk about the reality
of what's happening on college campuses,» she said.
Joined by
Woman's Luge Olympic Bronze Medalist Erin Hamlin
of Remsen and Mayor Robert Palmieri
of Utica, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente,
today announced that
young Oneida County athletes who want to emulate Hamlin's amazing run in Sochi while training under the guidance
of USA Luge National Team coaches can do so when the USA Slider Search returns to Utica on August 16th and August 17th.
Joined by
Women's Luge Champion Erin Hamlin
of Remsen, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr.,
today announced that
young Oneida County athletes who want to emulate Hamlin in her quest for Olympic gold, who want to experience the thrill
of the fastest sport on ice and who want to train under the guidance
of USA Luge national team coaches and athletes can do so when the USA Luge Slider Search rolls into Utica on August 22nd and August 23rd.
Women athletes and scientists today marked the 37th anniversary of a U.S. law prohibiting discrimination against women in education at a White House event during which young women were urged to go for the
Women athletes and scientists
today marked the 37th anniversary
of a U.S. law prohibiting discrimination against
women in education at a White House event during which young women were urged to go for the
women in education at a White House event during which
young women were urged to go for the
women were urged to go for the gold.
Aisha King, one
of the authors
of the study commented «this research strongly implies that
young men
today are ready to shoulder the contraceptive responsibility that has traditionally rested upon
women.
Young scientists
today are engaged in improving graduate and postdoctoral education, making science more hospitable to
women and minorities, and interacting with Congress on issues
of funding and professional development.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is the most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms, in particular for
younger women at the onset
of the menopause, suggests a new review published
today (19 December) in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG).
«One
of the best ways
of inspiring our
young women to stay in science is to make them aware
of the
women who have succeeded before them, not only in times past but
today.»
Fast - forward to
today: The latest guidelines from the American Congress
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) say that most
women younger than 21 don't need Paps at all,
women age 21 to 30 should get them every three years and
women older than 30 can stretch it to every five if they get an HPV test, too, assuming all results are negative.
«PCOS is one
of the most common conditions affecting
young women today, and the effect on mental health is still underappreciated,» said study author Dr. Aled Rees, who's with the Neurosciences and Mental Health Research Institute at Cardiff University in Wales.
Today, estimates are that 10 to 20 percent
of women have PCOS, and I would guess that among
young women the number is even higher, qualifying this as an epidemic.
Today I came across this study, which may be
of interest to you and your readers: Impact
of binge eating on metabolic and leptin dynamics in normal
young women — http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10022396
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