Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] women " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still others argue that Parliament is not the most important site of political struggle for women , and that women would be better spending their political energies at the level of local politics or in everyday struggle . |
| 2 | There are what economists call ‘ efficiency ’ reasons , in addition to the obvious grounds of equity , to be concerned about the relative economic weakness of women . |
| 3 | No , I 'm I was suggesting that the odds are against them and that men have used a type of emotional blackmail against women , which has always been very successful , where they 're actually forced , because there are no things like cheap or free workplace nurseries , they are forced to be the primary carers . |
| 4 | Awa Thiam from Senegal , a long time campaigner against genital mutilation and the guest speaker at the above mentioned conference , provided a progressive framework for women campaigning on this issue as far back as the 70's in her book La parole aux Negress , Denoel-Gonthier ( ed ) Paris 1978 , English translation Let Our Black Sisters Speak Out , Pluto Press . |
| 5 | Unlike village and nomadic weaving , which is normally the sole preserve of women and carries with it no personal prestige outside the village or tribe , workshops employ both men and women , and exceptionally talented weavers can earn more widespread acclaim and far greater financial rewards . |
| 6 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 7 | For example , a study of women of Pakistani origin living in Bradford shows that the kin group provides a key structure for the guidance and emotional support of women who are newly arrived from Pakistan ( Saifullah Khan , 1977 ) . |
| 8 | Bored with the formalities of mid-Victorian high society , often scornfully documented in her private diaries , she sought refuge in a form of neurasthenia and turned her hand to writing popular fiction , producing half a dozen still very readable novels which reflected her rebellious discontent with women 's role as second-class citizens in a world dominated by largely untalented men . |
| 9 | While the employers tended to cast around for reasons outside the work process when they wished to disparage women workers , unionists spoke more often of the low level of women compositors " skill . |
| 10 | The training and professional experience of women accountants means that they are ideal candidates for such high level posts . |
| 11 | It was unequivocally a place where women were held in order to be raped , ’ she said.Observers have also identified a specific category of women raped in order to be made pregnant . |
| 12 | There was also particularly strong support from women , one writer in a protest magazine of the period describing nuclear power as ‘ the ultimate tyranny of male technology ’ . |
| 13 | Mr Wilder won strong support among women and gained 44 per cent of the white vote , according to a CBS exit poll . |
| 14 | Mr Wilder won strong support among women and gained 44 per cent of the white vote . |
| 15 | That is the stark injustice of the total humiliation of women on all levels , by men . |
| 16 | However , to demand better working conditions in the home is in a sense contradictory in that this reinforces the social and spatial oppression of women within their domestic roles . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the conspicuous lack of support for equal opportunities from the Scottish Law Society is galvanising the Glasgow-based Association of Women Solicitors ( SAWS ) . |
| 18 | A small-scale study of women caring for frail elderly relatives found average earnings losses of £87 a week among women who had given up or been unable to return to work and average weekly losses of £28 among those still in paid work ( Nissel and Bonnerjea , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | There are also characteristics which show specific disadvantage to women . |
| 20 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 21 | His view was that he was more likely to find unrecognised talent among women than among men . |
| 22 | News of the threats came just three days before an historic vote on women 's ordination and as a poll was published showing most church-goers are in favour . |
| 23 | However , ‘ community care ’ appears far less of a cheap option if the unwaged labour of women is included in the financial calculations ( Finch , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 25 | Anne Higonnet 's essay on 19th century women 's ‘ Secluded Vision ’ , by contrast with these analyses of women 's professional practice , explores images of feminine experience in women 's albums and ‘ amateur ’ paintings . |
| 26 | A spirited campaigner for women 's rights and for abortion at a time when birth-control was practically unavailable , Beatrice was sometimes incomprehensible and hysterical in her arguments , driven by her exposed position to extremes . |
| 27 | Gossip may not be a female prerogative , but it certainly is so in the social stereotype of women . |
| 28 | Figure 4.5 illustrates horizontal segregation , showing that in most occupations there is either a clear majority of women or of men ; there are very few occupations in which there is an even proportion of men and women . |
| 29 | Some believe that it is inappropriate to ‘ export ’ a cultural ideology of women 's advancement from one society to another , |
| 30 | Mills and Boon has become a generic term for a mass popular fiction for women , and with that metonym has defined an area of study of popular cultural forms . |