6 sentences with 'workplace'
Example sentences and phrases with the word workplace and other words derived from it.
• « Fascist parties were explicitly dedicated to enforcing traditional gender roles, and when some countries were overtaken by fascist rule, women were often forced out of the workplace. »
• « The Nazis targeted almost every conceivable social group with a specific propaganda campaign and encouraged (or demanded) German citizens to join a specific Nazi league: workers were encouraged to work hard for the good of the state, women were encouraged to produce as many healthy children as possible (and to stay out of the workplace), boys were enrolled in a paramilitary scouting organisation, the Hitler Youth, and girls in the League of German Girls, trained as future mothers and domestic servants. »
• « To cite a few examples, it was perfectly legal (and common) for men to discriminate in hiring and workplace practices on the basis of a woman's appearance - stewardesses were routinely dismissed at the age of 30 for being too old to maintain the standards of attractiveness imposed by airlines. »
• « Wherever such second-wave feminism emerged as a movement, its goals were the creation of laws expressly prohibiting sex discrimination in the workplace and in schools and a broader cultural shift that saw women treated as true social equals to men. »
• « Greg Connolly, director of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Tobacco Control Program, puts it another way: "If we could convince smokers of the desirability of eradicating smoking from my workplace and that involuntary inhalation of tobacco smoke can be harmful to their loved ones, they would be much more likely to quit. »
• « The workplace also posed other hazards. The presence of cotton bales next to the oil used to lubricate the machines made fire a common problem in the textile mills. »