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• Reasonable woman — The reasonable woman standard is a legal fiction alternative to the reasonable person. It is used in sexual harassment litigation in some courts in the United States. It recognizes a difference between men and women regarding the effect of… …   Wikipedia

• reasonable woman — A standard used by fact finders in sexual harassment litigation to determine whether sexual harassment has occurred. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. reasonable woman …   Law dictionary

• reasonable person — n: a fictional person with an ordinary degree of reason, prudence, care, foresight, or intelligence whose conduct, conclusion, or expectation in relation to a particular circumstance or fact is used as an objective standard by which to measure or …   Law dictionary

• Reasonable person — The reasonable person standard is often used legal term that originated in the development of the common law. The reasonable person is a legal fiction which represents a reasoned outlook on a legal question. The perspective of the reasonable man… …   Wikipedia

• WOMAN — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the historical perspective biblical period marriage and children women in household life economic roles educational and managerial roles religious roles women outside the household… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Battered woman defence — The battered woman defence is a legal defence representing that the person accused of an assault or murder was suffering from battered person syndrome at the material time. Because the defence is almost invariably invoked by women, it is usually… …   Wikipedia

• beyond a reasonable doubt — adj. In a criminal case, proven by evidence to the point that a reasonable man or woman would be entirely convinced and morally certain that the defendant is guilty. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc …   Law dictionary

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft… …   Wikipedia

• Evening Standard Awards — The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are presented annually for outstanding achievements in London Theatre. Sponsored by the Evening Standard newspaper, they are announced in late November or early December. TrophiesThe… …   Wikipedia

• The Woman's Prize — The Woman s Prize, or the Tamer Tamed is a Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher. Its initial publication occurred in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647, though it was obviously written much earlier (Fletcher died in 1625). There is …   Wikipedia