Example sentences of "[adv] woman 's [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The weak position of women in the labour market , and their responsibilities within the home as domestic workers and child rearers , affect not only women 's access to housing , but its structure and design .
2 Only women 's liberation , coming out of the decade of the Pill , permissiveness and the sexual revolution , inverted the question — women 's problem was heterosexuality .
3 Pahl ( 1984 ) found that only women 's employment and stage in the life cycle affected the extent to which domestic tasks were shared .
4 I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships .
5 So women 's labour was needed in the market , and men became reactive on three counts .
6 For example , voluntary sector organisations who solely or partly incorporate work on domestic violence as part of their brief , ( eg Women 's Aid ) were investigated .
7 Thus woman 's sphere had to be limited for the sake of the race .
8 Thus woman 's sexuality is held to be her most important asset .
9 Conversely woman 's pleasure is ‘ more diversified , more multiple in its differences ’ .
10 They need cars to take folk to hospital or help wheel people out — it 's not just women 's work , you know , all that . ’
11 And thus women 's sexuality is a source of constant anxiety within Hinduism .
12 As a welcome twist , Warwara Zelenskaja gave the Soviet Union is best-ever women 's result with third place at Morzine behind Kronberger and Bournissen .
13 ‘ … and , in any case , cooking and looking after children is strictly women 's work , ’ he told her flatly .
14 By 1959 a third of those cases were about the way these relations had failed to meet expectations , particularly women 's expectation , since twice as many women as men applied to it .
15 Economic circumstances , particularly women 's employment , are related to family formation and dissolution both as cause and effect .
16 This is unfair , but something that even Women 's Liberation can not change .
17 Consequently women 's education was seen as unimportant , and whilst her brothers were tutored and sent to Oxford , the merchant 's or Lord of the Manor 's daughter would learn to read , to write and do household accounts and still-room skills , as well as plain sewing and embroidery .
18 Even women , who for a whole variety of familiar reasons , do not call themselves feminists , know that whatever else women 's liberation means , it represents a standpoint that begins with women and with the intention of reconstituting the world for women as a better place .
19 Ever increasing reproductive technologies are re-ordering social aspects of reproduction , specifically women 's fertility , sexuality and pregnancies , by taking them to an industrial level , making them more and more scientific/medical procedures in need of ’ expert ’ interference , and so moving them even further out of women 's control .
20 Certainly women 's mortality rates have improved significantly faster than those for men ( Table 3 ) , but it is difficult to come to any general conclusions about health status for the period 1870–1950 , particularly in respect to working class women .
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