School spirit abounds with men ’ s and women ’ s varsity teams that have delivered more conference and national championships than any other institution in Atlantic University Sport.

Shaping Edwin ’ s ambitious journey in the world of the theater is his love of three women: the beautiful, strong-minded Julia Scarlet, whom he first meets in Ann Arbor ; the emotionally fragile and haunting Jessamy Lee, and the very private and mysterious leading lady Adelina Kane, idol of the American stage.

With his father's declination of the position as minister of the court ; during his young boyhood ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá witnessed his parents ' various charitable endeavours, which included converting part of the home to a hospital ward for women and children.

On 24 April 1826 over 1, 000 men and women, many armed, gathered at Whinney Hill in Clayton-le-Moors to listen to a speaker from where they marched on Sykes ’ s Mill at Higher Grange Lane, near the site of the modern police station and Magistrate ’ s Courts, and smashed over 60 looms.

They found that increased women's rights were are associated with less civil wars and that legal polygamy had no effect after women ’ s rights were controlled for.

Male chauvinism has been defined as a “ blind allegiance and simple minded devotion to one ’ s maleness that is mixed with open or disguised belligerence toward women.

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.

De Pizan ’ s participation in a literary quarrel, in 1401 – 1402, allowed her to move beyond the courtly circles, and ultimately to establish her status as a writer concerned with the position of women in society.

The first of these shows the importance of women ’ s past contributions to society, and the second strives to teach women of all estates how to cultivate useful qualities in order to counteract the growth of misogyny.

Written in 1429, The Tale of Joan of Arc celebrates the appearance of a woman military leader who, according to de Pizan, vindicated and rewarded all women ’ s efforts to defend their own sex.

In The Treasure of the City of Ladies, she highlights the persuasive effect of women ’ s speech and actions in everyday life.

She also claims that slanderous speech erodes one ’ s honor and threatens the sisterly bond among women.

" It ’ s the natural law, as women fare so fares the world, their children, and that ’ s everybody.

In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.

In 1874, Dr. Henry Maudsley ’ s article on Sex and Mind in Education, which argued that education for women caused over-exertion and thus, reduced their reproductive capacity, sometimes causing “ nervous and even mental disorders ”.

Elizabeth ’ s counter-argument was that the real danger for women was not education but boredom and that fresh air and exercise were preferable to sitting by the fire with a novel.

The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery, a permanent installation set within the restored former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital building that now forms part of the new UNISON Centre, uses a variety of media to set the story of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, her hospital, and women ’ s struggle to achieve equality in the field of medicine within the wider framework of 19th and 20th century social history.

This is possible, but seems unlikely, especially as Charibert seems to have had a preference for younger women, again, according to Gregory ’ s account.

In 1903 there was a substantial increase in the number of women film several minutes long unclear, as a result of the great popularity of Georges Méliès ’ le Voyage dans la lune ( A Trip to the Moon ), which came out in early 1902, though such films were still a very minor part of production.

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

Her testimonial launch of the Second Crusade from Vézelay, the rumored location of Mary Magdalene ´ s burial, dramatically emphasized the role of women in the campaign.

Sports sanctioned by the NCAA include the following: basketball, baseball ( men ), softball ( women ), football ( men ), cross country, field hockey ( women ), bowling ( women ), golf, fencing ( coeducational ), lacrosse, soccer, gymnastics, rowing ( women only ), volleyball, ice hockey, water polo, rifle ( coeducational ), tennis, skiing ( coeducational ), track and field, swimming and diving, and wrestling ( men ).

UNC has been very successful at college basketball and women ’ s soccer, and a passion for these sports has been a distinctive feature of the town's culture, fueled by the rivalry among North Carolina's four ACC teams: the North Carolina Tar Heels, the Duke Blue Devils, the NC State Wolfpack, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

Currently, the MEAC has automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postseason play in baseball ( since 1994 ), men ’ s basketball ( since 1981 ), women ’ s basketball ( since 1982 ), football ( since 1996 ), softball ( since 1995 ), men and women ’ s tennis ( since 1998 ), and volleyball ( since 1994 ).

The Northeast Conference has a total of twelve members in 23 championship sports: baseball, men ’ s and women ’ s basketball, women ’ s bowling, men ’ s and women ’ s cross country, field hockey, football, men ’ s and women ’ s golf, men ’ s and women ’ s indoor track & field, women ’ s lacrosse, men ’ s and women ’ s outdoor track & field, men ’ s and women ’ s soccer, softball, women ’ s swimming, men ’ s and women ’ s tennis, and women ’ s volleyball.

The LSC sponsors intercollegiate competition in men ’ s baseball, men ’ s and women ’ s basketball, men ’ s and women ’ s cross country, men ’ s and women ’ s golf, men ’ s football, men ’ s and women ’ s soccer, women ’ s softball, men ’ s and women's tennis, men ’ s and women ’ s indoor track and field, men ’ s and women ’ s outdoor track and field, women ’ s volleyball.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

Association football is the most prominent team sport for women in several countries, and one of the few women's team sports with professional leagues.

A team of four skaters, consisting of two men and two women, perform singles and pairs elements in unison, as well as unique elements that involve all four skaters.

In September 1992, Polgár participated in a tournament held in Aruba in which a team of senior men's players competed against a team of top women players.

At Central High, he sang in the school choir, participated in the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps program, and competed on the debate team, where he argued against women getting the right to vote and against the abolition of the death penalty.

In the international team version of kabaddi, two teams of seven members each occupy opposite halves of a field of 10 m × 13 m in case of men and 8 m × 12 m in case of women.

* 1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8, 000-meter peak.

Each team consists of four mounted players, which can be mixed teams of both men and women.

Wellesley College in Massachusetts was the first school to organize a competitive rowing team for women in the late 19th century.

In both games Brazil's women team beat the United States for the gold medal.

* AZS AE Wrocław — women table tennis team ( 1st league in season 2003 / 2004 )

** An all-female Japanese team summits Manaslu in Nepal, becoming the first women to climb an 8, 000 metre peak.

On 26 May 2006, the International Ski Federation decided to allow women to ski jump at the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic and then to have a team event for women at the 2011 world championships.

Each village was governed by a leadership team consisting of two men ( Elders ) and two women ( Eldresses ).

The team intends to recruit women to come to Mars, and select five prospective candidates.

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.

Somoza Debayle was ambushed by a seven-person Sandinista commando team ( four men and three women ).

Blankers, a former triple jumper ( participant in the 1928 Olympics ) was a sports journalist and the coach of the Dutch women's athletics team, even though he originally thought women should not compete in sports — not an unusual opinion at the time.

Most of the other women on the team at the time suspect it was an attempt by Jan and Fanny Blankers to eliminate an opponent, although this has never been confirmed.

Camogie (; formerly called camoguidheacht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women ; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men.

Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany lamp as well as for other creations.