Women may marry other women, raise their children, and be generally thought of as men in societies in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Kenya.

Women were generally relegated to lower positions in the temple hierarchy, although some held specialized and influential positions, especially that of the God's Wife of Amun, whose religious importance overshadowed the High Priests of Amun in the Late Period.

Women who's heads were generally larger in the back with lower foreheads were thought to have underdeveloped organs necessary for success in the arts and sciences while having larger mental organs relating to the care of children and religion.

Women generally had very secondary roles at this time, though various series with Wendy Craig in the leading role and those developed by scriptwriter Carla Lane, the first successful female writer in the form, were challenges to this situation.

Commerce Department regulations virtually required pilots to have flown in the military to acquire sufficient flight hours, and until the 1970s, the U. S. Air Force and Navy barred women from flying, thus also preventing them from moving into commercial piloting Despite women being trained by the US Army Air Corps and flying every advanced military aircraft the US built ( including every bomber, pursuit plane, and the first jet ) during WWII as Women Airforce Service Pilots ( WASP ), this program was disbanded in December 1944 and commercial jobs were not generally available to women, though these highly trained women flew as instructors and pilots for flying services throughout the United States.

Excellent Women is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952 and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners.

Women are generally prohibited from entering a bora.

Women are generally expected to wear skirts or dresses for church services.

Women were generally given greater rights than women in pre-Islamic Arabia and medieval Europe.

He managed to sketch some women secretly in Algiers, as in the painting Women of Algiers in their Apartment ( 1834 ), but generally he encountered difficulty in finding Muslim women to pose for him because of Muslim rules requiring that women be covered.

Women in mourning and widows wore distinctive black caps and veils, generally in a conservative version of the current fashion.

Amongst the most notable works made in pastel are those of her Dog Women series, in which women are shown sitting, squatting, scratching and generally behaving as if they are dogs.

Women generally wear lycra bike shorts, athletic briefs or swimsuit-style lycra bodysuits.

Upon its release, All the Women I Am received generally positive reviews from most music critics.

Women are generally responsible for food selection and preparation and for the care and feeding of children.

Women are generally not allowed to participate in individual speech during the " Breaking of Bread " meeting ( i. e., gathering ).

The entries editorialise strongly against their subjects, Catholicism, The Protectorate and Commonwealth, any political enemies of Britain ( such as the French ), drunkenness, prostitution (" Women of abandoned character "), gambling, " dissipation " in general and other " vices " generally while eulogising Protestantism, the Church of England, the English monarchy and legal system, the Common Law and Bloody Code, with some rare exceptions.

Women generally do not wear neckties with their suits.

Women retain their names after marriage, since Icelanders generally do not use surnames but patronyms or ( in certain cases ) matronyms.

The first wave is made up of Elite skiers ( generally around 200 ) who depart Cable at 8: 20 am, followed by Elite Women ( generally around 50 ) at 8: 22.

As reported in Carol Felsenthal's biography of Alice, and in Betty Boyd Caroli's The Roosevelt Women, as well by TIME journalist Rebecca Winters Keegan, it was generally accepted knowledge in DC that Longworth also had a long, ongoing affair with Senator William Borah, and the opening of Longworth's diaries to modern historical researchers indicates that Borah was, by Longworth's own admission, the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth ( 1925 – 1957 ).

Women are generally responsible for the upbringing and care of children, and of husbands in Ecuador, and traditionally, men have taken a completely inactive role in this area.

Women with gestational diabetes who manage the condition with diet and exercise or with medication generally have smaller birthweight babies, leading to other problems, such as survival rate of premature and early births, particularly male babies.

Women had higher rates of miscarriage and stillbirths, as did livestock such as cattle, water buffalo, and pigs.

* Women were allowed to succeed ( but there existed no known children of theirs whose father did not also happen to be an agnate of the imperial house, thus there is neither a precedent that a child of an imperial woman with a non-imperial man could inherit, nor a precedent forbidding it for children of empresses ).

Women who did not enter the military were aggressively called upon to take industrial jobs left by men, in order to continue national productivity.

Women who inherited territory usually did so because war and violence brought many men to premature death, and women who were recognized as queen regnant rarely exercised their authority directly, with their spouse exercising authority jure uxoris, through the medium of their wife.

Women were significantly underrepresented in the California Gold Rush, and sex ratios did not reach essential equality in California ( and other western states ) until about 1950.

Women who had adventures of their own often did so to counter the threat of rape, or to gain revenge for same.

Women did the sewing, cooking and farming, while the men hunted and prepared for military activity and securing enemy heads in headhunting raids, which was a common practice in early Taiwan.

Both women ’ s literature historians and juvenile fiction historians agreed that Little Women was the apex of this “ downward spiral .” Elbert argued that Little Women did not “ belittle women ’ s fiction " and that Alcott stayed true to her “ Romantic birthright .”

“ Alcott particularly battled the conventional marriage plot in writing Little Women ” Alcott did not have Jo accept Laurie ’ s hand in marriage ; rather, when she finally had Jo get married, she picked an unconventional man for Jo ’ s husband.

In 1997, the six women who did most of the programming of ENIAC were inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

Women may have worked the fields, but men did not work in childcare.

O ' Connor, a 1945 graduate of Georgia State College for Women, did much of her best writing in Milledgeville at her family's farm, Andalusia.

Women still did the " booking " of gold leaf sheets until 1961.

The second tells of two tribes of ancestral spirits who were invited to a feast, but were distracted by the beautiful Sleepy Lizard Women and did not show up.

Women did most of the crop planting, cultivation and processing, although men helped in the heaviest work of clearing the fields.

The decision that the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts were unconstitutional has not been overturned ; on the contrary, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this limited reading of the Fourteenth Amendment in United States v. Morrison,, in which it held that Congress did not have the authority to enact parts of the Violence Against Women Act.

The New York Times included it in their 2004 Guide to the Best 1, 000 Movies Ever Made, as did Angie Errigo and Jo Berry in a 2005 compilation of Chick Flicks: Movies Women Love.

Albertina did not display an interest in politics at first, only attending political meetings with Walter in a supporting capacity, but she eventually got involved in politics when she joined the African National Congress ( ANC ) Women ′ s League in 1955, and took part in the launch of the Freedom Charter the same year.

In the years since then, Perrine has worked in lower-profile projects, although she did have a small supporting role in the 2000 Mel Gibson film What Women Want.

Women in practise often did maintain control over their dowry after marriage.

The first of them, 1982's Men Without Women, earned the most critical praise ( Jay Cocks of TIME magazine dubbed it one of the ten best albums of the year ), while its follow-up, 1984's Voice of America, did the best on the U. S. albums chart, although none of them were much of a commercial success.

* La valle dell ' eco tonante / Valley of the Thundering Echo ( Hercules of the Desert, 1964 ) starring Kirk Morris ( released in France as Maciste and the Women of the Valley ) ( Note *-This was the only Maciste film that did not have the word " Maciste " in the original Italian title ; this film actually shows Maciste materializing from a rock wall.

Women did respond to these issues, but in terms of general voting they shared the same outlook and the same voting behavior as men.