The balance of the workforce in America changed during World War II through the dramatic rise of women ’ s participation as men left their positions to enlist in the military and fight in the war.

Socially, sexual differences have been used to justify different roles for men and women, in some cases giving rise to claims of primary and secondary roles.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

Religious developments included relaxation on prohibitions against teaching women Torah, and the rise of women's prayer groups in France and Germany.

At the same time, there was a rise in philosophical and midrashic interpretations depicting women in a negative light, emphasizing a duality between matter and spirit in which femininity was associated, negatively, with earth and matter.

Cardassian society generally exhibits little or no sexual bias ; for example, both men and women can rise to high ranks in the military.

Sometime before 1557, two slaves from Mozambique, one from Java, and two women, escaped from a ship and remained hidden on the island for many years, long enough for their numbers to rise to twenty.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The struggle of women for social justice has given rise to its own liberation theology, frequently known as feminist theology in Europe and North America.

In the last decade of the 20th century, the rise in producing commercial videotapes catering to voyeurs helped encourage a tradition of women baring breasts in exchange for beads and trinkets.

Akasha has abducted Lestat and takes him as an unwilling consort to various locations in the world, inciting women to rise up and kill the men who have oppressed them.

Moore cites writers such as Marilyn French and Robert Graves, who argue ( as the fictional Gull does ) that women held both political and religious power prior to the rise of patriarchal religions such as Christianity.

The growth has been driven by increasing affluence and the rise of a middle class ; the entry of women into the workforce ; with a consequent incentive to seek out easy-to-prepare foods ; the growth in the use of refrigerators, making it possible to shop weekly instead of daily ; and the growth in car ownership, facilitating journeys to distant stores and purchases of large quantities of goods.

Their study showed that an increase in just an additional centimetre above normal waistline caused a 1. 25 % and 2. 08 % rise in health care costs in women and men respectively.

The services of the temples were performed by old women who were physically misshapen, though intellectually superior persons, giving rise to the fear of witches and of the mishappen.

Pain and stress hormones rise throughout labor for women without epidurals, while pain, fear, and stress hormones decrease upon administration of epidural analgesia, but may rise again later.

The intermingling of promyshlenniki men with Aleut and Alutiiq women in the late 19th century gave rise to a people who assumed a prominent position in the economy of Russian Alaska and the north Pacific rim.

An ancient and alternative way in which women managed to rise to power, especially without displacing the direct male line descendants of the first monarchs, is the historical Consortium or Coregency between husband and wife or other relatives, the most notable of these being the cases of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, as well as the Ptolemaic Dynasty's Kings and Queens.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

Older women were more likely to break hips and other bones in falls, since they could not balance securely on their feet, and were less able to rise to their feet from a sitting position.

State-sponsored doping in East Germany with hormones and anabolic steroids marked the rise of women from the German Democratic Republic in track and field from the late 1960s to the 1980s.

She witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement, and " saw roving Nazi gangs randomly beating Jewish men and women in the streets " of Vienna.

Westergren's original normal values ( men 3mm and women 7mm ) made no allowance for a person's age and in 1967 it was confirmed that ESR values tend to rise with age and to be generally higher in women.

Most notably, Carnegie believed that the future leaders of society would rise from the ranks the poor.

The Sikh Youth Alliance of North America organizes the annual Sikh Youth Symposium, a public speaking competition for Sikh youth to foster the rise of the next generation of Sikh leaders.

On January 8, Mao praised these actions through the party-run People's Daily, urging all local government leaders to rise in self-criticism, or the criticism and purging of others suspected of " counterrevolutionary activity ".

This diversity led Thornton to describe the initial " exploration of the Atlantic " as " a truly international exercise, even if many of the dramatic discoveries as those of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan were made under the sponsorship of the Iberian monarchs ", something that would give rise to the later myth that " the Iberians were the sole leaders of the exploration ".

Coluccio Salutati ( February 16, 1331 – May 4, 1406 ) was a Tuscan humanist and man of letters, and one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance Florence ; as chancellor of the Republic and its most prominent voice, he was effectively the permanent secretary of state in the generation before the rise of the Medici.

The reasons for the failure were obvious: the people were totally despondent after three years of famine, and being prompted to rise up early resulted in an inadequacy of military preparations, which caused disunity among the leaders.

A number of Christian leaders, authors, and evangelists credit Schaeffer's ideas with helping spark the rise of the Christian Right in the United States and were strongly influenced by him.

All churches acknowledge the same succession of church leaders up to about the monophysite Robber Council of Ephesus of 429 and the orthodox Chalcedonian Council of Chalcedon 451, that gave rise to the non-Chalcedonian ( miaphysite / monophysite ) Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and to the chalcedonian Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

When the central power over the area decreased these leaders, called in Latin advocatus or in German Vögte could rise from administrators to actual county leaders.

Major political developments in the early 1930s, chief among them Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election in 1932, gave rise to internal tensions with the Socialist Party, and a group of Socialist labor leaders on the East Coast left the Socialist Party to form the Social Democratic Federation ( U. S .).

The tyrannies of Sicily came about due to similar causes, but here the threat of Carthaginian attack prolonged tyranny, facilitating the rise of military leaders with the people united behind them.

By 1962, the Ba ’ ath was on the rise as a new group of leaders under the tutelage of Ali Salih al-Sa ’ di began to re-invigorate the party.

With the rise of Google, the gurus of Web 2. 0, and the call from business leaders ( often seen in publications such as Business 2. 0 ) for a more creative, as well as skilled, workforce, Florida asserts that the contemporary relevance of his research is easy to see.

After the deaths of three elderly Soviet leaders in a row since 1982, the Politburo elected Gorbachev Soviet Communist Party chief in 1985, marking the rise of a new generation of leadership.

In the eighteenth century, with the rise of Thonburi and Bangkok against Burmese rule, local leaders from Lampang agreed to be their allies.

With the rise of media coverage, which put these new violent gangs on the front page, soon many disaffected black youths were running to join the Crips, many without ever being contacted by gang leaders.

In March 2009, noting the rise of Calvinism in the United States, Time listed several Baptists among current Calvinist leaders.

The eventual trial of Saya San, who was executed, allowed several future national leaders, including Dr Ba Maw and U Saw, who participated in his defence, to rise to prominence.

Their pre-eminence came to an end in 1565, with the queen's marriage to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, whose claims to the English throne did not endear him to Elizabeth I of England, leading Argyll and other Protestant leaders to rise in revolt.

The reasons for the failure were obvious, the people were totally despondent after three years of famine, having been prompted to rise early resulted in an inadequacy of military preparations, which caused disunity among the leaders.

With the rise of the Mississippian culture in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys, tribal leaders organized thousands to build complex urban areas with numerous large earthworks-pyramidal, ridgetop and conical mounds used for religious, political and ceremonial purposes.

Many political opponents and DMK party senior leaders have been critical of the rise of M. K. Stalin in the party.

After their rise to power, the Nazis persecuted occultists. While many Nazi Party leaders like Hitler and Joseph Goebbels were hostile to occultism, Heinrich Himmler used Karl Maria Wiligut as a clairvoyant " and was regularly consulting for help in setting up the symbolic and ceremonial aspects of the SS " but not for important political decisions.