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Girlboss is a neologism that denotes a woman "whose success is defined in opposition to the masculine business world in which she swims upstream". [1] She's the confident and capable woman who is successful in her career, or the one who pursues her own ambitions, instead of working for others or otherwise settling in life.
Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, [1] [2] and there is also some evidence that some behaviors considered feminine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. [1] [3] [4] [5] To what extent femininity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate.
The Rhodes Project, which examines the experience of female Rhodes Scholars, was created in 2004 by Ann Olivarius. [7] Rhodes Scholars are chosen from around the world for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
back toward home along the same route we’d come. It was hard work. By mid-March we began to see the end of the winter mornings and were starting to feel better about it all. As we talked with friends, some of them became interested, and soon what began as a ridiculous conversation on the first day in January took on a life of its own. In the
Nouns seem to possess a well defined but covert system of grammatical gender. We may call a noun masculine, feminine or neuter depending on the pronouns which it selects in the singular. Mass or non-count nouns (such as frost, fog, water, love) are called neuter because they select the pronoun it. Count nouns divide into masculine and feminine.
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The government and other organizations have attempted to implement language feminization in the realms of policy making, teaching, advertising, etc. [22] Feminization of language refers to when in writing or talking traditional male words are feminized by either using the feminine variant of the word or adding a feminine suffix. [23]
Here’s a look at the final three House races waiting to be called in this year’s Congressional elections.