But now, when I visit college classes, the women seem just as assertive as the men.
And, as I will explain, I'm about as assertive as a rice-pudding.
ARE young professional women as assertive as their male colleagues when it comes to salary negotiations?
Equally assertive in plans for Arab unity, Libya obtained at least the formal beginnings of unity with Egypt, Sudan, and Tunisia, but these and other such plans failed as differences arose between the governments concerned.
Some years later, she was equally assertive in rejecting the role of a traditional Indian wife.
F.G.M. is the most sensational topic in El Saadawi's writing (although she is equally assertive on things like religion, sex, and the veil), but what sets her accounts of it apart is her blend of intimacy and authority — she is able to speak about it as a victim and also as a physician, in fiction and in non-fiction.
The second candidate, a woman, was equally assertive, yet in that case, the group viewed assertiveness as a liability.
His foreign policy was equally assertive.
A coworker calls you "angry" while your equally assertive male counterpart gets labeled "strong" (a far too often occurrence for women as one of our previous studies showed).
Slightly more subtle but equally assertive renderings of majestic rocks or trees were also popular.
Noting that graffiti writing "has equally assertive counterparts in rap music and break dancing," Mr. Chalfant, a sculptor who became entranced by graffiti while standing on subway platforms in the late 1970's, announced the birth of "hip-hop culture" -- positioning paint-sniffing vandals and block party D.J.'s on the same safe, respectable continuum as PBS and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
