subservience
Example Sentences
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It helped undo the damage done by the subservience in “I Dream of Jeannie.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
More and more women have been given a choice about how many children they will bear and that has opened up avenues to different lives, less confined to motherhood and economic subservience to men.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
Feminists have spent the past 150 years painstakingly chipping away at the laws that forced our subservience.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2024
To women doing the hard work of keeping house and raising the kids without hewing to some ridiculous notion of subservience, being called a #TradWife, even as a joke, might not be.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023
Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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