Example sentences of "[v-ing] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to know what her paintings are about — how images of Penelope , Cornelia Mother of the Gracchi , Cleopatra , Andromache and many others were being used to explore the possibility of representing women 's intellect , courage , political judgement as well as their passions , pride or grief in that contradictory and fluid moment of western European history . |
| 2 | Understanding women 's concerns about health has practical implications for the development of health and social policy . |
| 3 | Are they romanticising women 's fabled lack of aggression and equally fabled listening skills ? |
| 4 | Debbie , 32 , worked for the Portland Project for the homeless before becoming women 's officer with the Transport Union . |
| 5 | One group of people consider fishing men 's work and weaving women 's , while two hundred miles away it is women who fish and men who weave . |
| 6 | It challenges these discourses , too , by valuing women 's active sexuality positively , and by defining lesbianism very broadly , as a matter of political or cultural identity , rather than simply of sexual relations ( e.g. Rich 1980 ) . |
| 7 | But the more effective positive action in correcting women 's past disadvantage , the more men as a whole are obliged to face unprecedented competition for access to certain occupations and grades . |
| 8 | Perhaps , then , men find women 's conversation difficult to follow , and since they are the powerful group , they can deal with their incomprehension by defining women 's behaviour as deviant and wrong — ‘ illogical ’ is just their word for that . |
| 9 | Until the entire Catholic tradition reaches a consensus approving women 's ordination , Bishop Sessford will oppose it . |
| 10 | The women 's organizations have been instrumental in promoting women 's rights , particularly the need to train women , to assume responsibilities outside the domestic sphere , They are running various workshops and co-operatives which were initially started through the financial support of women 's groups in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 11 | These ideas were circulated in her theosophical society , The League of Isis , which listed rules on chastity and continence , aimed at promoting women 's higher self . |
| 12 | Northern designers Terri Doyle , specialising in menswear and Susan Scott , designing women 's casuals , are now selling to outlets in London . |
| 13 | Feminist research has begun to restore the balance by researching women 's lives , by demonstrating how far British society is dominated by men , by reinterpreting evidence originally produced by men , and by devising techniques suited to researching women 's issues . |
| 14 | Feminist research has begun to restore the balance by researching women 's lives , by demonstrating how far British society is dominated by men , by reinterpreting evidence originally produced by men , and by devising techniques suited to researching women 's issues . |
| 15 | But this brutality and coercion has been seen not merely as a question of physical or ‘ external ’ coercion or constraint ; the force of subjection has also been seen as a psychic one , invading women 's very selves . |
| 16 | Cinewomen in Norwich began their annual women 's film festival : in independent cinemas and community centres , projects like Women 's Media Resource Project established regular slots for exhibiting women 's work in both film and video . |
| 17 | Yet while we readily blame employers for their extra exploitation of women as cheap labour , and the state for regulating women 's economic dependence on men , we protect men from the shame of their participation in women 's poverty by keeping the secret . |
| 18 | Researching ‘ the family ’ , usually a code for studying women , means investigating women 's social interactions with children , men , and other women ; and social methods like observations and interviews are used particularly often in this area . |
| 19 | In 1892 she became senior lady assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour , investigating women 's work in Ireland , in the Black Country iron industry , and in London public houses . |
| 20 | Presenting women 's viewpoint in development through interpersonal and mass media will explode several myths of patriarchal society , especially those assuming that ‘ male-defined reality ’ is the only reality , that political and economic systems created by men are superior and that women must merely be integrated into these systems . |
| 21 | And , in an idle moment , he invented a method for lining women 's hat-boxes ! |
| 22 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 23 | It also indicates that specialists , particularly ASWs , play a significant role in preventing unnecessary sections , hence guarding women 's civil rights . |
| 24 | Generally this state is to do with basic physical facts surrounding women 's ability to give birth , which equates them with the animal side of Man 's state ; or with Nature rather than Culture . |
| 25 | The Ministry for Women will have special responsibility for coordinating childcare policy , improving women 's safety and encouraging more women to participate in public life . |
| 26 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 27 | Dustin could never go to a chemist and ask for condoms , although he had no difficulty in buying women 's contraceptives . |
| 28 | Most working women 's groups accepted that the respectable woman 's place was in the home , emphasising women 's contribution as wives and mothers and the need to bring the ‘ mother spirit into politics ’ . |
| 29 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 30 | He was wearing women 's clothes and make-up , and there was a wig next to his handbag on the passenger seat . |