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CLEVELAND -- Calcium, an essential nutrient for the human body, has received substantial attention in both the medical literature and lay press regard...
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CLEVELAND -- Clinical recommendations for hormone therapy (HT) after menopause based on the best available evidence have just been released by The Nor...
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... such a ban furthers the dignity of Muslim women, despite the fact that some Muslim women choose to... and worth depend on his relationship to society. Accordingly, respect for a person's dignity requi...Regardless of social position or economic wealth, each person is entitled to the...
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[...] if it is the mother who is summoning the child, then the directive is that she should interrupt the recommended ritual prayer and respond to her mother.60 Ayatullah Saanei makes use of this new epistemology and hermeneutic strategies when dealing with other issues pertaining to present-day society as well, such as the legality or prohibition of interest (riba) and use of gambling (qumar) instruments, minority rights, religious pluralism, bio-medical ethics, right of a wife to unilaterally divorce her husband, permissibility of women to occupy the position of judges or the highest religious post, and the age at which a person would become religiously accountable (mukallaf) and able to transact a marriage.61 Conclusion In the works of Ayatullah Saanei, one observes a major epistemol...
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... a man charged in a paternity action, while women equally qualified might be more sympathetic and re... women, unlike men, occupied a unique position "as the center of home and family life." Id., at 6... 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of black...
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Examines how family members in 18 countries attempt to influence each other to drink less. Data come from the GENACIS (Gender, Alcohol and Culture: an International Study) dataset (overall sample 44,115). The percentage of people who had experienced family member pressure to drink less were compared to country abstinence rate, mean drinking volume per drinker and other societal-level factors. Countries differed greatly on proportion of drinkers having experienced family members' pressure to drink less, however, in all countries drinking women reported less pressure than drinking men in their own society. Informal pressure was exerted most often by the spouse or sexual partner, and was found to be highly correlated with the country's socioeconomic conditions.
... of family structure, women's position in the society, rate of urbanization and economic ...
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... Americans have long lived within a society in which a white majority could profess Christiani... with white temperance leaders and her position as an NACW founder into opportunities to launch po...
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Dr. Marjorie Peebles-Meyers is named chief physician at Ford Motor Co. World Headquarters in Dearborn. She will hold the post until 1985. Dr. Peebles-Meyers overcame discrimination against women in general, Black women in particular, to achiveve a number of "firsts" during her long, distinguished medical career. A graduate of Wayne State University Medical School, after first being denied admission to Columbia University Medical School and beginning her study at Howard University Medical School, she became the first African American woman to serve as head resident at Detroit Receiving Hospital and established the first interracial medical practice in Detroit with Dr. Eugene Shafarman. In 1950 she broke the racial restriction barrier in Detroit Hospitals when she was granted full attendi...
... practice until assuming her Ford Motors position, from which she retired in 1985. The recipient of ... for 1968 by the Michigan State Medical Society. In 1986 she was inducted into the Michigan Women'...
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... ICT can have a significant impact on the position of women in society. ICT has the potential to help...
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... social development and to strengthen the position of women in society. Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Li...