Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not one to fuss about women 's rights . |
| 2 | She later fought for women 's rights and social reform in the Alberta legislature at Edmonton , and represented Canada at the League of Nations . |
| 3 | In the data there is some support for the notion that certain matters such as child care and support for elderly people are regarded as women 's business in families , while men 's business is money ; but it would be too crude to assume that this simple division of responsibilities could explain all the gender differences which occur in kin support . |
| 4 | For example , there was relatively little leisure-time involvement by husbands with their mates but considerable participation in what traditionally has been regarded as women 's work , especially child-rearing . |
| 5 | In practice women and men are involved in different ways in giving and receiving support , but much of this is explained not by a cultural definition of what counts as women 's business or men 's business , but by three other factors . |
| 6 | Cameras appear from women 's purses , as do pens and scraps of paper . |
| 7 | Here again , questions of discourse and power surfaced in women 's attempts to develop a feminist sexual politics . |
| 8 | M LITT IN WOMEN 'S STUDIES |
| 9 | It does not follow that a transvestite , ie , a man who dresses in women 's clothes , is either a pervert or a homosexual . |
| 10 | The idea that straight people ’ benefitted ’ from lesbian and gay oppression was raised , also the need for a lifting of oppressive sexuality , and the question of how lesbian oppression differed from women 's oppression . |
| 11 | They try to value denigrated body images positively ( Orbach 1978 ) , and to emphasize the valuable place eating has in women 's relations with others , especially other women ( Chernin 1986 ) . |
| 12 | Advertisements for a video series entitled ‘ Images of Love ’ began to appear in women 's magazines and in trade journals in 1984 . |
| 13 | The uncharitable , on the other hand , might assume it to be a collection of the sort of homilies which used to appear in women 's magazines . |
| 14 | In Britain , we now have three publishing houses committed to women 's writing and at least two of the large publishing companies now carry a separate list for books of special interest to women . |
| 15 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |
| 16 | A new teaching video challenging negative social practices affecting women 's health and development , Tradition Tradition uses African storytelling , dancing and singing to take a critical look at practices such as female circumcision and other matters relating to women 's health . |
| 17 | Important here has been the ‘ charters ’ drawn up by feminists , in and out of work , listing minimum demands relating to women 's disadvantages in employment and at home . |
| 18 | Since answers to the Ten Statements Test represent , in part , expressed affiliations to the housewife role , language and subcultural norms relating to women 's satisfaction with housework are likely to be important . |
| 19 | The practice is intensifying among women 's magazine because many circulations are falling owing to sustained competition from new titles , and the reduction in consumer spending . |
| 20 | It looks at women 's contribution to family income , and examines pensioner 's incomes , low income families , the costs of children , at how families divide their income , and at patterns of family spending . |
| 21 | ‘ What do you think of Women 's Lib ? ’ she said to Emily . |
| 22 | Some policy statements , such as the 1974 " Integrated Population Policy " , have argued for women 's integration into the workforce and for increased educational opportunities , on the grounds that women 's status is positively correlated with a reduction in fertility . |
| 23 | Connections were made between women 's domestic labour and the segregation by sex of jobs in the labour market . |
| 24 | But you think it 's perfectly all right to talk about women 's tits and bums and stick pictures of them up all over the place . |
| 25 | Even a radical writer like Olive Schreiner appealed for women 's right to work , since it would in the end prove beneficial for the race , ‘ parasitical mothers ’ , she argued , produced ‘ softened sons ’ . |
| 26 | Most of what passes for women 's education and which is considered different in kind and emphasis from that which is usually provided in mainstream education for women , is , in my view , a transparent variation on a familiar theme . |
| 27 | ( Yet again it must be said — an argument which does not directly arise out of a golden thread approach but which is pertinent here — the two passages in the new testament which speak of women 's subordination both rely on the Genesis account of creation and fall , an account no longer valid in a post-Darwinian age . ) |
| 28 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 29 | There are , of course , the familiar and obvious reasons connected with women 's traditional role in child-rearing but there are less obvious reasons too . |
| 30 | But why did n't you tell me before that you believed in women 's lib ? |