Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] women ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking their work together , two main reasons for women 's status consciousness emerge , each one related to the supposed gender-role of women . |
| 2 | Ideas and opinions about women 's issues and the degree of priority they should be given at this stage vary considerably , but it is more than apparent that there are many who now believe that a new society would be incomplete without changes in women 's position . |
| 3 | Many commentators have noted that more words are available to insult women than men , especially in sexual terms , and that words for women 's bodies are more taboo than those for men 's ( compare prick and cunt ) . |
| 4 | Arthur Newsholme , the Chief Medical Officer to the Local Government Board , believed it would be ‘ folly ’ to infer from Campbell 's report that ‘ the industrial occupation of mothers is not a most injurious element in our social life ’ , and in 1919 the Women 's Employment Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction , set up to advise on the opportunities for women 's employment after the war , expressed the hope that ‘ every inducement , direct or indirect , will be given to keep mothers at home ’ . |
| 5 | These characteristics of women 's speech were evidently not chosen at random and are not value-free . |
| 6 | From this very brief outline of the main characteristics of women 's employment in Scotland and how they related to the Edinburgh context , we can at least form some kind of picture of the 14-year-old Scottish girl 's expectations about her working career during the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | For supporters of women 's ordination it 's the culmination of years of campaigning . |
| 8 | Despite two years of intense lobbying by supporters of women 's ordination , the outcome is on a knife-edge , to be decided by a handful of waverers in the House of Laity . |
| 9 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 10 | So , when it comes to the very physical activity of making art , many women turn to their own bodies or images of women 's bodies as a vehicle for making images , for making meaning . |
| 11 | Yael Even examines the images of women 's subjugation on the ‘ Loggia dei Lanze ’ sculpture court in Florence . |
| 12 | Most , but not all , bear the images of women 's faces . |
| 13 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 14 | The feminist psychology of women also tends to put all aspects of women 's experience on the same level . |
| 15 | Feminist socialization theories explain even the most apparently natural aspects of women 's and men 's subjectivity as learned . |
| 16 | She is even able to understand the apparently irrational , masochistic aspects of women 's psychology , by drawing on de Beauvoir 's implicitly psychoanalytic account of its power : ‘ Woman assumes her most delicious triumphs by first falling into the depths of abjection … the little girl takes delight in a masochism that promises supreme conquests ’ ( de Beauvoir , quoted in Rowbotham 1973 : 42 ) . |
| 17 | The difficulty with both these kinds of argument is that they emphasise only one or , at the most , two aspects of women 's lives . |
| 18 | This is not simply a matter of those aspects of women 's sexual lives that are so often cited in evidence as disqualifying women from running the affairs of nations , or even from running a small business : menstruation and premenstrual tension ; conception , pregnancy and childbirth ; lactation and child-care . |
| 19 | I have argued , however , that there are also aspects of women 's experience which the humanist paradigm is unable to conceptualise adequately ; hence the appeal of theories which attempt to ‘ deconstruct ’ the self in more radical ways . |
| 20 | Discussions of various aspects of women 's work are to be found in chapter 3 , sections 3.2 , 3.4 and 3.5 . |
| 21 | For a survey of key aspects of women 's experience in the family , at work , in education and in health , in Britain now , see Beechey and Whitelegg ( 1986 ) . |
| 22 | Holcomb , Kodras and Brunn ( 1990 ) selected 26 variables representing various aspects of women 's legal rights in 49 of the 50 States ( Kansas was excluded because of incomplete data : the source was Cherow-O'Leary , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Both the current generation of ‘ young elderly ’ women and women now of working age have been profoundly affected by the following aspects of women 's employment and employers ' pension provision . |
| 24 | The workshops will be geared towards all aspects of women 's lives , whether you run a home and look after children , juggle a family and a career or simply have a demanding job . |
| 25 | One of Britain 's first professional women geologists and a noted pioneer among late nineteenth-century women educationists , Catherine Raisin always took a keen interest in all aspects of women 's advancement . |
| 26 | These narratives consistently address material conditions and contradictions in women 's lives ; and the international sales figures indicate that those contradictions are not restricted to women in the western cultures of Britain and America . |
| 27 | They are helped in this by numerous addresses to women 's particular subjectivity in feminism outside psychology . |
| 28 | They cut someone else 's budget — for example , grants to voluntary organisations from family service units to women 's groups — before cutting their own staff . |
| 29 | Topics covered during the seminar include ‘ An Analysis of Books on Women 's Issues ’ ; ‘ Women 's Contribution to Christian Literature ’ ; ‘ Women in the Media — a Global Perspective ’ and ‘ Women 's Contribution to Children 's Literature ’ . |
| 30 | Growing up in Wimpole Street , London , her father Arthur Wellesley Edis was a Professor of Gynaecology and writer of several books on women 's health . |