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 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.

Nicolas de Condorcet was especially noted for his advocacy, in his articles published in the Journal de la Société de 1789, and by publishing De l ' admission des femmes au droit de cité (" For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women ") in 1790.

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.

Euripides also expressed strong anti-war ideas in his work, especially The Trojan Women.

* Women are especially tenderhearted

In his book Women, Fire and Dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind, Lakoff reappraised the hypothesis of linguistic relativity and especially Whorf's views about how linguistic categorization reflects and / or influences mental categories.

* Faludi's 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women.

Women, especially, are becoming more and more financially independent which allows them to feel more secure with being alone.

Flash was especially associated with an important break known as " The Bells "— a cut-up of the intro to Bob James's jazz cover of Paul Simon's " Take Me To The Mardi Gras "— while Bambaataa delighted in springing occasional rock music breaks from records like " Mary, Mary ", " Honky Tonk Women ", " Sgt.

Little Women was a fiction novel for girls that veered from the normal writings for children, especially girls, at the time.

This is especially true during adolescence .” Little Women became “ the paradigmatic text for young women of the era and one in which family literary culture is prominently featured .” Adult elements of women ’ s fiction were in Little Women, such as “ a change of heart necessary ” for the female protagonist to evolve in the story.

Women especially bore the burden of caring for these boarders.

Women, especially younger girls, will often apply the traditional Mehndi, or henna, on their hands and feet and wear colourful bangles.

International organizations were formed to coordinate efforts, especially the International Council of Women ( 1888 ) and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance ( 1904 ).

Women moved in large numbers into previous male bastions — especially professions like medicine and law — during the last decades of the 20th century.

Women played a much more prominent social role in pre-Joseon dynasty Korea, especially in Silla, which had three reigning queens in its history.

Alberta's women, especially those of the UFA-affiliated United Farm Women of Alberta, were active in the province's moral reform movement.

Concerned Women for America's major areas of public policy activity in recent years have consisted of opposition to LGBT political causes ( especially recognition of same-sex unions ), promoting laws restricting abortion, supporting bans on embryonic stem-cell research, and working against pornography.

André Victor written in his article Islamic Hijab and the Subjugation of Women 25 April 2003 that " Sarkozy has spoken out against hijab on passport photos, and presumably earned the approval of millions of voters, which was probably the real purpose of this exercise in demagoguery " It considers that " The real problem is that wearing the hijab, visible sign of the subjugation of women to their husband, father, brother or men in general, has been the subject of a political campaign of organizations present in fundamentalist migrant groups to impose their law within them, especially women .[...

Women – especially those from traditional backgrounds – participated on a large scale in demonstrations leading up to the revolution.

Women and children were employed more frequently within larger firms, especially those producing furniture and clothing.

Women were especially in danger in liminal states: being a new bride, or a new mother.

Women who are breastfeeding are at risk for developing mastitis especially if they have sore or cracked nipples or have had mastitis before while breastfeeding another baby.

* MCB ’ s 2011 TEDx Women talk on the themes of rebirth, " Adulthood II ," and the critical role of older adults, especially women, in advocating for the future.