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Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
“Women’s work is never easy, never clean.” ― Tayari Jones, "An American Marriage" “You don’t know the background story of resilience, struggles and strength of beautiful and outgoing ...
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality. Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-14031-3. Sawyer, Deborah F. (1996). Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-10748-8. Tanenbaum, Leora (2009). Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality. Farrar, Straus and ...
Having a right to their land gives women a sort of bargaining power that they would not normally have; they gain more opportunities for economic independence and formal financial institutions. Race has an integral impact on women's empowerment in areas such as employment. Employment can help create empowerment for women.
Jesus honors a poor widow who cast "two copper coins" into the Temple treasury. What the widow gave to God was the totality of her belongings. Women had only limited access to the Temple in Jerusalem. There Jesus found the most praiseworthy piety and sacrificial giving, not in the rich contributors, but in a poor woman. [1]
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In the Middle Ages, the idea that God had granted certain earthly powers to the monarch, just as he had given spiritual authority and power to the church, especially to the Pope, was already a well-known concept long before later writers coined the term "divine right of kings" and employed it as a theory in political science.
What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost. “If MIT had allowed women to get a Ph.D. in chemistry, she would have gotten one,” said Elizabeth Maurer, director of program at the National Women's History ...