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 archives of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital ( formerly the New Hospital for Women ) are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

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 prayed and held sacred banquets at the Saecular Games, which were characterized by an " overt and unusual celebration of women, children, and families in a civic festival.

Both men ’ s and women ’ s Klans held weekly rallies and initiations in Malfalfa Park, and Kokomo ’ s Klanswomen held meetings at the armory, the local headquarters of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, and churches.

Women worked at the mills in large numbers, mainly as weavers, although men held most supervisory positions.

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.

In 1999, President Bill Clinton awarded the National Medal of Arts to Lear, noting that “ Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it .” Also in 1999, he and Bud Yorkin received the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of excellence and innovation in creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.

Women held a relatively strong position in traditional Arvanitic society.

The Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women ( AIAW ) sponsored the first regional women's soccer tournament at college in the USA, which was held at Brown University.

A major retrospective was also held of her work at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid in 2007, which travelled to the Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, the following year.

The first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was held in Washington, D. C., in June 1994, and brought together 500 technical women .< ref name =" ghchist ">

In the Spanish Civil War, an anarcha-feminist group, (" Free Women ") linked to the, organized to defend both anarchist and feminist ideas, while Stirnerist Nietzschean feminist Federica Montseny held that the " emancipation of women would lead to a quicker realization of the social revolution " and that " the revolution against sexism would have to come from intellectual and militant ' future-women.

Evidence that those ideas may have been more widely held is also found in the writings of Subhuti, who echoes the sutras when he says in his book, ' Women, men and angels ,' that to be reborn as a woman is to be less spiritually able than to be reborn as a man.

Public discussion held on the topic of two ‘ Women ’ s Days ’ in Armenia resulted in the recognition of the so-called ‘ Women ’ s Month ’ which is the period between March 8 and April 7.

Women prisoners held in the Third U. S. Army enclosure at Regensburg, Germany, May 8, 1945.

Willard was elected the first president of the National Council of Women of the United States in 1888, a position which she held for the remainder of her life.

But while Roman women held no direct political power, those from wealthy or powerful families could and did exert influence through private negotiations .< ref > Kristina Milnor, " Women in Roman Historiography ," in The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians ( Cambridge University Press, 2009 ), p. 278 ; Ann Ellis Hanson, " The Restructuring of Female Physiology at Rome ," in Les écoles médicales à Rome: Actes du 2 < sup > ème </ sup > Colloque international sur les textes médicaux latins antiques, Lausanne, septembre 1986 ( Université de Nantes, 1991 ), p. 256 .</ ref > Exceptional women who left an undeniable mark on history range from the semi-legendary Lucretia and Claudia Quinta, whose stories took on mythic significance ; fierce Republican-era women such as Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and Fulvia, who commanded an army and issued coins bearing her image ; women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, most prominently Livia, who contributed to the formation of Imperial mores ; and the empress Helena, a driving force in establishing Christianity as the official religion of Rome.

Luis dies the first week back in the war, and in the episode " Letter, Lawyers and Loose Women ", a funeral is held in his honor with Ed and everyone attending.

United States v. Morrison, is a United States Supreme Court decision which held that parts of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 were unconstitutional because they exceeded congressional power under the Commerce Clause and under section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Since 1966 it has only been combined with sinecure positions and the holder has not been a departmental minister though some have held additional responsibilities such as Lord Hailsham also being designated " Minister of Science " or Lady Jay of Paddington also being " Minister for Women ".

The Women ’ s Memorial March is held annually in the district on Valentine's Day, to call attention to missing and murdered women.

Other positions currently held include as an elected member of the National Executive Committee and as the Vice-Chair of Women, Race and Equality Committee of the Labour Party.