The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a treme...
Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.
Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.
As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to ...
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.
Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.
I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women.
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
