One major psychological theory, Relational-Cultural Theory, is based on the work of Jean Baker Miller, who's book Toward a New Psychology of Women proposes that " growth-fostering relationships are a central human necessity and that disconnections are the source of psychological problems.

Women used a technique called " lacing " or " taping ," in which cords or ribbons were used to bind the hair around their heads.

Women did the sewing, cooking and farming, while the men hunted and prepared for military activity and securing enemy heads in headhunting raids, which was a common practice in early Taiwan.

Women usually are covered in draping coverings including their heads and occasionally are known to wear highly decorative handmade jewelry made from household or natural items.

Women rub the seed heads from their stalks and then separate the seeds from the chaff by skilful winnowing.

* Women in many parts of Africa and the West Indies often cover their heads with intricately tied scarves which may be called scarves, head wraps, or turbans.

In the United States, Warren Farrell heads a commission focused on the creation of a " White House Council on Boys and Men " as a counterpart to the " White House Council on Women and Girls " which was formed in March 2009.

Women who were suspected of having romantic liaisons with Germans or, more often, of being German prostitutes, were publicly humiliated by having their heads shaved.

Women accused of " horizontal collaboration " because of alleged sexual relationships with Germans during the occupation were arrested and had their heads shaved, were publicly exhibited and some were allowed to be mauled by mobs.

Women were required to have long dresses and counseled to keep their heads covered at all times.

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.

Women may marry other women, raise their children, and be generally thought of as men in societies in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Kenya.

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 generally did not own property except in the rare case of inheriting land from a father who didn't bear sons.

Women generally had very secondary roles at this time, though various series with Wendy Craig in the leading role and those developed by scriptwriter Carla Lane, the first successful female writer in the form, were challenges to this situation.

Commerce Department regulations virtually required pilots to have flown in the military to acquire sufficient flight hours, and until the 1970s, the U. S. Air Force and Navy barred women from flying, thus also preventing them from moving into commercial piloting Despite women being trained by the US Army Air Corps and flying every advanced military aircraft the US built ( including every bomber, pursuit plane, and the first jet ) during WWII as Women Airforce Service Pilots ( WASP ), this program was disbanded in December 1944 and commercial jobs were not generally available to women, though these highly trained women flew as instructors and pilots for flying services throughout the United States.

Excellent Women is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952 and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners.

Women are generally prohibited from entering a bora.

Women are generally expected to wear skirts or dresses for church services.

Women were generally given greater rights than women in pre-Islamic Arabia and medieval Europe.

He managed to sketch some women secretly in Algiers, as in the painting Women of Algiers in their Apartment ( 1834 ), but generally he encountered difficulty in finding Muslim women to pose for him because of Muslim rules requiring that women be covered.

Women in mourning and widows wore distinctive black caps and veils, generally in a conservative version of the current fashion.

Amongst the most notable works made in pastel are those of her Dog Women series, in which women are shown sitting, squatting, scratching and generally behaving as if they are dogs.

Women generally wear lycra bike shorts, athletic briefs or swimsuit-style lycra bodysuits.

Upon its release, All the Women I Am received generally positive reviews from most music critics.

Women are generally responsible for food selection and preparation and for the care and feeding of children.

Women are generally not allowed to participate in individual speech during the " Breaking of Bread " meeting ( i. e., gathering ).

The entries editorialise strongly against their subjects, Catholicism, The Protectorate and Commonwealth, any political enemies of Britain ( such as the French ), drunkenness, prostitution (" Women of abandoned character "), gambling, " dissipation " in general and other " vices " generally while eulogising Protestantism, the Church of England, the English monarchy and legal system, the Common Law and Bloody Code, with some rare exceptions.

Women generally do not wear neckties with their suits.

Women retain their names after marriage, since Icelanders generally do not use surnames but patronyms or ( in certain cases ) matronyms.

The first wave is made up of Elite skiers ( generally around 200 ) who depart Cable at 8: 20 am, followed by Elite Women ( generally around 50 ) at 8: 22.

As reported in Carol Felsenthal's biography of Alice, and in Betty Boyd Caroli's The Roosevelt Women, as well by TIME journalist Rebecca Winters Keegan, it was generally accepted knowledge in DC that Longworth also had a long, ongoing affair with Senator William Borah, and the opening of Longworth's diaries to modern historical researchers indicates that Borah was, by Longworth's own admission, the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth ( 1925 – 1957 ).

Women are generally responsible for the upbringing and care of children, and of husbands in Ecuador, and traditionally, men have taken a completely inactive role in this area.

Women with gestational diabetes who manage the condition with diet and exercise or with medication generally have smaller birthweight babies, leading to other problems, such as survival rate of premature and early births, particularly male babies.