Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] women [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The effects of care-giving on women 's paid employment and living standards , as described below , lend further weight to this argument .
2 On May 28 , 1989 — International Day of Action for Women 's Health we plan to hold a seminar/meeting to consolidate our gains and set up a support network for the genital mutilation campaign .
3 The APA 's Division of the Psychology of Women , and the BPS Psychology of Women Section , criticize psychology 's poor record of research on women 's psychology , and see the rectification of this as their major field of work .
4 Initially , as many men have recounted , there was a great deal of prejudice about women 's military capacities :
5 Since most Western societies are liberal in outlook , cherishing the proposition that ‘ we 're all individuals ’ , it is not surprising that the early , uncompromising identification of sexism with women 's oppression was quickly challenged and replaced with the notion of individuals being oppressed by their restrictive sex roles .
6 I am encouraged in my hope by the fact that insects frequently visit bright blobs of colour on women 's dresses ( and also by more systematic experiments that have been published ) .
7 Overall , the results do suggest that high taxable rates have some impact on men 's working hours and quite a lot of impact on women 's .
8 Chodorow suggests that the concentration of childcare in women 's hands brings daughters to identify symbiotically with their mothers , and to carry this interdependency and need for mutual mothering into future relationships , most especially with their own children .
9 In the future evolution of society under women 's guidance , sex would be raised to a higher plane , where physical passion would be transmuted by the power of human love .
10 By paying particular attention to texts and images created by women in the visual arts and performance as well as in literature , the book goes some way towards making up for the lack of awareness of women 's art .
11 When the United Trade Union Committee ( CUTS ) was formed , they established the post of Secretary of Women 's Affairs and so we did n't continue the work of AMPES .
12 But the greatest blow to the dictates of fashion on women 's dress came with the World War I. Although Laura Ashley had , unconsciously , much in common with the nineteenth-century dress reformers it is ironic that their efforts towards change were entangled inextricably with the organized struggles for the rights of women ; women , to be taken seriously , had to dress in a more robust , sensible manner , they stated — an argument amply demonstrated by their usefulness in wartime .
13 For instance , while some men 's sexual fulfilment is doubtless restricted by the narrow fantasy of sex as power contained in much of contemporary pornography , others enjoy acting out those fantasies of domination on women 's bodies .
14 But the relation of fertility to women 's employment and income is quite different .
15 The discussion opened with the ( as it turned out ) vexed question of politics in women 's film-making .
16 Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence .
17 But work that has been done with story-telling in women 's groups shows that it can be tremendously enjoyable , and bring out a range of expression and imaginative ideas in every participant .
18 Men 's more direct conversational style comes into conflict with women 's expectations of support , and each sex misunderstands the other 's intentions ( this might explain why the pattern is much more marked in mixed sex than in all-male talk ) .
19 Although most scholars are aware of this problem with respect to women 's writing , some prefer simpler terms .
20 New programmes for the next three years include a research study on women in the media in some Asian countries , workshops in South Asia for women 's alternative media , and a wider concern for advocacy in women 's media issues .
21 Past performance by unions in support of women 's interests has been uninspiring : one hundred years passed between the TUC 's endorsement of equal pay and the Equal Pay Act of 1970 .
22 In part this is because the 26 variables aggregate several different dimensions of discrimination against women ; a factor analysis identified ten significant factors , which ‘ vividly demonstrates a lack of consistency among the states in support of women 's legal rights ’ ( p. 192 ) .
23 They did not stay long , because her drowsiness began to increase , and a short time later they left to go in search of Women 's Surgical , where Stella greeted them with pleased surprise .
24 It was the first time the bishops had met following last November 's historic vote by the Church of England 's General Synod in favour of women 's ordination as priests .
25 The women 's organizations are now confident that a unified representative body will be formed and that as a consequence , both their work to incorporate more women into the movement for social justice and a popular democratic government and their work in favour of women 's rights will be greatly strengthened .
26 Submissions/proposals on the theme : ‘ The Bottom Drawer ’ , in relation to women 's lives , eg. Suppression , denial/Aspirations , achievements .
27 The changes in relation to women 's use of higher education , however , are less straightforward and perhaps less encouraging for women and egalitarians .
28 The characteristic that courses for career women , courses reclaiming the curriculum on behalf of women 's history and culture , and courses providing useful knowledge and skills for women reconstituting their traditional roles have in common is the recognition that some women at least have expectations , aspirations and preoccupations which are not well catered for in the mainstream provision of adult education .
29 He and others were not pursuing the Pill on behalf of women 's reproductive autonomy and freedom .
30 Many ( such as Beechey , 1978 ) place great emphasis upon the advantage to capital of women 's position in the family in order to explain their subordination in other many spheres in society .
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