Sexism

Traditionally, walking beneath items used to cover women's private parts is not only bad luck, but emasculating for men in Myanmar.

"I cannot forget his moral failure back then," Hendel said. "He decided to support power because it was convenient to him. I see it again now with the way he relates to Yifat by mocking her."

Swift attached a screen shot of a black screen with a subtitled punchline from the show: "What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift."

"My inappropriate comments caused a big trouble. I am sorry," Mori, 83, said at an Olympic organizing committee meeting.

Mori, 83, apologized at a hastily called news conference, but when pressed on whether he really thought women talked too much, he said: "I don't listen to women that much lately so I don't know."

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The Knesset houses 11 members who hold doctorates, two of whom are women; very few are medical doctors by profession.

Flexner wrote that women “show a decreasing inclination to enter” medical school and have “obvious limitations.

Young men were significantly less progressive than young women in most countries, with the difference particularly pronounced in Italy and Germany.

"What the Members of Knesset said is horrifying," said Amalia, a mother of three who lives in a shelter for abused women. "It is horrifying that there are people like that who sit in the Knesset."