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.

`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

* 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time.

* 1989 Feistritz an der Drau, Austria ( first joint Men + Women BWCH )

Women are now included for the first time.

Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.

Later, while explaining his developing " Grecian style " for paintings such as The Intervention of the Sabine Women, David further commented on a shift in attitude: " In all human activity the violent and transitory develops first ; repose and profundity appear last.

The first death due to cholera occurred in 1866, but by then Elizabeth had already opened St. Mary ’ s Dispensary for Women and Children, at 69 Seymour Place.

Women have been playing association football since the first recorded women's game in 1895 in North London.

* 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women ’ s Suffrage Societies ( NUWSS ).

Women writers in the utopian literature movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at the time of first wave feminism, often addressed sexism.

In 1979 the American feminist writer Fran Hosken ( 1920 – 2006 ) presented research about it — The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females — to the first Seminar on Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, sponsored by the WHO.

Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.

* 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force ( WAF ).

In 1921 – 22, the Bradleys made their first trip to central Africa, which later contributed to Sheldon ’ s short story, " The Women Men Don't See.

Women in the U. S. who could not visit Harlem or live in Greenwich Village for the first time were able to visit saloons in the 1920s without being considered prostitutes.

* 752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.

In 1907, as Picasso was painting Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon, Oskar Kokoschka was writing Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ( Murderer, Hope of Women ), the first Expressionist play ( produced with scandal in 1909 ), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, his first composition " without a tonal center ".

* 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.

In 2004, Stott Despoja took 11 weeks ' leave from the Senate following the birth of her first child before returning to full duties as Democrat spokesperson on, inter alia, Higher Education, Status of Women, and Work and Family.

Within groups such as New York Radical Women ( 1967 – 1969 ), no relation to Radical Women, a present-day socialist feminist organization ), which Ellen Willis characterized as " the first women's liberation group in New York City ", a radical feminist ideology began to emerge that declared that " the personal is political " and " sisterhood is powerful ", formulations that arose from these consciousness-raising sessions.

In 1545, at Konya, he married Nurbanu Sultan, originally named Cecilia Venier-Baffo, a Venetian noblewoman, and mother of Murad III, who later became the first Valide Sultan who acted as co-regent with the sultan in the Sultanate of Women.