Whatever lip service might be paid to gender equality, families are also highly talented at sending out covert messages about what a 'real' man or a 'real' woman should honourably do.
" We know there's a mind-body connection and we all pay lip service to it, " says Dr Robert Waldinger, the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which has been running for 84 years.
Shifting to the cloud is what enabled IT to say, okay, and become a partner to their users in a way that they, you know, paid lip service to before, but they were really antagonistic to their users.
While it's super important that workplaces accommodate menopause, we also don't want to use that as kind of lip service so then we can excuse all the bad policies that are keeping women from advancing, right?
To say something – that you believe in something – but not to do anything about it is an example of " lip service, " or " giving lip service, " we might also say.
In April 2019, Disney surprised the audience at CinemaCon by showing the first 17 minutes of the film, and it sounds like Hank and Alan aren't just paying lip service with their comments.