This, too, is significant for oppression, since those whose moral agency is compromised in these ways are easily exploitable (see Hampton, 1993).
Punitive damages are generally meted out in only the most extreme circumstances, usually in breaches of obligation with significant evidence of oppression, fraud, gross negligence, or malice.
Equity feminists are classical-liberal or libertarian feminists who hold that, in societies like the United States, the only morally significant source of oppression of women is the state.
Cultural libertarian feminists are classical-liberal or libertarian feminists who hold that the culture of societies like the United States is patriarchal and a significant source of oppression of women.
The original impetus for the study was found in Rwanda's 2004 Gender Policy, which acknowledged that sexual harassment was a problem for girls in school and that it could nevertheless constitute a significant form of oppression and discrimination for Rwandan women at work [ 13].
They are doubtful that pornography is a significant cause of the oppression of women or that the "blunt and treacherous" instrument of the law is the best solution to such harm as pornography may cause.
"Yet Asian Americans didn't seem to have it "bad enough" to justify identifying with the other minority groups who were participating in conversations about race and identity, and who seemed to be struggling with far more significant issues of race-based oppression".
She plays a significant role in Meera's redemption from oppression.
It also situates Ms. Eltahawy's work within a growing trend of "native informants" whose personal testimonies of oppression under Islam have generated significant support for military aggression against Muslim-majority countries in recent years.
There were no significant changes in the social order, but the oppression of the farming population increased as armies traversed the highlands, ruining the countryside and plundering the harvests of farmers.
