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 were allowed full freedom of worship.

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.

The influence of radical feminism can be seen in the adoption of these issues by the National Organization for Women ( NOW ), a feminist group, that had previously been focused almost entirely on economic issues.

Women with Turner syndrome are almost universally infertile.

In this respect, the almost limitless and sometimes esoteric knowledge the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook offers is a gently satirical comment on the " Scout Bible ", as the original Scouting For Boys by Baden-Powell was sometimes known, a book giving advice on a vast range of subjects, including " Smoking ", " How The Empire Must be Held ", " Courtesy To Women ", and " How to Revive A Suicide "

Stone went with her daughter to Chicago in May, 1893 and gave her last public speeches at the World's Congress of Representative Women where she saw a strong international involvement in women's congresses, with almost 500 women from 27 countries speaking at 81 meetings, and attendance topping 150, 000 at the week-long event.

Fame came with Jackson's starring role in the controversial Women in Love ( 1969 ) for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress, and another controversial role as Tchaikovsky's nymphomaniac wife in Ken Russell's The Music Lovers added to her image of being prepared to do almost anything for her art.

Women appear to be affected more than men by a factor of almost 3 to 1.

Women were almost unheard of in the ranks of leading orchestral conductors through most of the 19th and 20th centuries – there are remarkable and sobering accounts of orchestras refusing to play for them – but today, artists like Marin Alsop and Simone Young have decisively broken the gender barrier, to the point that gender neutrality is conceivable in the field and musicians increasingly regard gender as a non-issue.

Women and girls take the initiative in inviting the man or boy of their choice out on a date — almost unheard of before 1937 — typically to a dance attended by other bachelors and their assertive dates.

Women began almost immediately to protest and have won some reversals of policies in the years since.

* George Gissing's novels are almost exclusively set in London, including The Nether World ( 1889 ), New Grub Street ( 1891 ) and The Odd Women ( 1893 ).

The third and fourth " Toronto " seasons were eventually shown ( almost 2 years after Comedy Central showed the last second season episode ) on the Showtime cable channel ; they currently rerun all four seasons on their specialty " Showtime Women " channel.

Women and girls take the bold initiative by inviting the man or boy of their choice out on a date — almost unheard of before 1937 — typically to a dance attended by other bachelors and their assertive dates.

The longitudinal study Excess Mortality from Suicide and other External Causes of Death Among Women with Cosmetic Breast Implants ( 2007 ), reported that women who sought breast implants are almost 3. 0 times as likely to commit suicide as are women who have not sought breast implants.

Women may not have a similar refractory period and may be able to repeat the cycle almost immediately.

Women on the Run has almost none of the original cast from TCTUC in it.

Women are almost always portrayed with an opaque white color.

In 1977 she was elected World President of the Associated Country Women of the World ( ACWW ), representing almost nine million women in 74 countries throughout the world.

Women had full rights of property ownership and control unless she was married or had a father — the males had almost complete control of all family members.

Women in these roles flew almost every type of aircraft flown by the USAAF during World War II.

( 1994 ), however, report that " Women whose husband or usual sex partner was uncircumcised had a threefold increase in risk of HIV, and this risk was present in almost all strata of potential confounding factors.

Along with Red Detachment of Women, the ballet is regarded as one of the classics of revolutionary China, and its music is familiar to almost everyone who grew up during the 1960s.

Women do, however, hold positions in almost every other area in the church and are encouraged to do so.

Similarly, the Dublin Journal reported at the same time that the south east part of Tipperary " is almost waste, and the Houses of many locked up, or inhabited by Women and old Men only ; such has been the Terror the Approach of the Light Dragoons has thrown them into.

Women also spend 17 % of their time preparing food, and are almost solely responsible for maintaining the camp .( pp. 44 – 48 )