I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.

However, other songs, including " In Praise of Women ", " The Miller's Son " and " Liaisons ", were cut and remain heard only as background orchestrations.

Women in art were covered in clothing from the neck down, including female goddesses like Athena, the patron of Athens who represented heroic endeavor.

Women were banned by the Pauline dictum mulieres in ecclesiis taceant (" let women keep silent in church "; see I Corinthians, ch 14, v 34 ).

Chaste widows were revered as heroes during the Ming and Qing periods, and were deemed so central to China ’ s culture and the fate of all peoples, the Yongle Emperor distributed 10, 000 copies of the Biographies of Exemplary Women ( Lienü Zhuan ) to various non-Chinese countries for their moral instruction.

Women were more likely to suffer from neck and shoulder pain than men.

Women joined cheerleading prior to 1907 and began to dominate the sport during World War II, when few men were involved in organized sports.

Women and children were also victims of Cheka terror.

* 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 ).

Once these laws were passed, Finnish authorities signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, in 1986.

Women tended to occupy lower positions, while males were more often supervisors or managers.

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.

Women were, nonetheless, " denied political rights of ‘ active citizenship ’ ( 1791 ) and democratic citizenship ( 1793 ).

In 2011, the winners were Men: SSV Helsinki ( Finland ) and Women: IF Djurgårdens IBF ( Sweden ).

Within the Vedas the Hindu holy texts, Women were given the highest possible respect and equality.

Women were considered to be the embodiment of great virtue and wisdom.

Women writers were not uncommon at the time, but Evans's role at the head of a literary enterprise was.

Women were especially active in building neighbourhood solidarity on housing and rent issues.

Women were appointed to the Order of the Garter almost from the start.

The Earl, finding himself obliged, by the gallentry of the action, thought fit to make his acknowlegements thereof, by granting them several Privileges and Immunities, and to perpetuate the memory of so signal an attempt, instituted an Order, somewhat like a Military Order, into which were admitted only those Brave Women, deriving the honour to their Descendants, and assigned them for a Badge, a thing like a Fryars Capouche, sharp at the top, after the form of a Torch, and of a crimson colour, to be worn upon their Head-clothes.

Women were also welcome to join the Knights, as well as black workers by the year 1883.

Women will be allowed to vote beginning in 2012, as King Abdullah announced in the opening speech of the new term of the Shura Council.

For example High School age poets only, or Women poets only may be allowed to participate in a particular slam, and thus it might encourage poets from those demographics to feel more confident in participating in a poetry slam for the first time.

* Women are allowed membership into the Future Farmers of America ( now the National FFA Organization ).

* October 21 – Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

On Carnival Thursday ( called " Old Women Day " or " The Women's Day "), in commemoration of an 1824 revolt by washer-women, women storm city halls, cut men's ties, and are allowed to kiss any man who passes their way.

Women, although usually having less rights by custom, were allowed to level civil and criminal charges against men.

Women are allowed but not expected to be armed.

Women were first allowed to take part in 1964 ; equestrian sports are one of the few Olympic sports in which men and women compete against one another.

Women are not allowed to enter or touch the sumo wrestling ring ( dohyō ), as this is traditionally seen to be a violation of the purity of the dohyō.

He had made his mark as a Disney child star, but after being fired, was hoping to revive his career with Mars Needs Women treating it as a serious project, to the extent of rewriting some of his dialogue. Reportedly, Buchanan allowed Kirk to create his own soliloquy for his scene in an astronomical observatory as he explains that his world is dying.

Women in the congregations reported to Stanton, who saw the actions of the ministers as cowardly ; in their congregations, no one would be allowed to reply.

In 1924, the Florida Legislature mandated that women of a " mature age " ( at least twenty-one years old ) who had completed sixty semester hours from a " reputable educational institution " would be allowed to enroll during regular semesters at the University of Florida in programs that were unavailable at Florida State College for Women.

While Little Women showed normal American middle class lives of girls, it also “ legitimized ” their dreams to do something different and allowed them to consider the possibilities.

Valentinian I may have divorced Severa according to Roman Law, which allowed for divorce ( see Women in Ancient Rome ).

In Seneca's version of The Trojan Women, the prophet Calchas declares that Astyanax must be thrown from the walls if the Greek fleet is to be allowed favorable winds ( 365 – 70 ), but once led to the tower, the child himself leaps off the walls ( 1100 – 3 ).

Women were allowed wine at these and other religious occasions.

Women were not allowed to eat these so-called " fish of knowledge or wisdom.

Women were not allowed to see drawings of Baiame nor approach Baiame sites — which are often male initiation sites ( boras ).

Women were only allowed to sing in the choir from 2005 onwards.

* Women were not allowed to wear makeup because it was believed that this was not pleasing to God.

Women not working on the ranch were not allowed in.

Women were not allowed to compete for several years.

His first film for Fox, Women Everywhere ( 1930 ) cost slightly more than some of the programmers he had previously directed in America and allowed him to collaborate with several figures who would contribute to his future success in Britain.