Example sentences of "attitude to women " in BNC.

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1 The main area of confusion with regard to the Jewish attitude to women concerns the laws of marriage , particularly in respect of menstruation and childbirth .
2 It is my attitude to women , or my conduct with them , which provides the rumours , the poison , the imprisonment in an icy room .
3 He was still surrounded by woman , of course , mostly fat ones receiving Mud 's beauty treatment and so his early life was dominated by the female presence rather than the male which may help explain his future attitude to women for which flocks of emerging feminists , and a few of his friends , would berate him .
4 It is fiscal changes , however , which reveal women 's double burden of second-class work status and family obligations and dramatise the government 's contradictory attitude to women : since April 1990 , married men and women have been separately taxed ; but this is a phantom recognition of women because the married couple 's new allowance is given to the husband .
5 Another point to consider in relation to the statistics on female crime is the view that men may adopt a more chivalrous attitude to women , based on misconceptions of women as passive and gentle .
6 Punchy and powerful theatre by the country 's foremost mime company , incorporating rich comedy , music and expressive energetic performances in a show that takes a sharp critical look at society 's attitude to women and alcohol ‘ Shrewd detailed observation … disarmingly truthful ’ The Guardian ‘ Honest , humorous and compulsive ’ .
7 This implicitly derogatory attitude to women is linked both to an overmonolithic account of male power , and to a failure to give much attention to the ways in which women have , in fact , often spent much of their lives , and to the activities which have been particularly theirs ( such as the rearing of children , for example ) .
8 A bit rough and ready and with a highly incorrect attitude to women , but amusing , in a raw kind of way ; a man 's man .
9 It was his attitude to women that shocked me . ’
10 I am seen to have an open attitude to women but all kinds of power relations often preclude women coming to me .
11 Men themselves acquired a more responsive attitude to women .
12 ‘ The attitude to women 's rights , equality , to a bit of space was at best indifference .
13 Her own reservations , which she admitted to no one and most of the time not fully even to herself , concerned their attitude to women and the laity .
14 For despite having an open mind in many ways , his attitude to women and their problems had always been the conventional one of the young aristocrat he had once been .
15 Guarded , if not downright timid , in his attitude to women , Lewis mysteriously lets an American admirer , Joy Davidman , become closely acquainted with him .
16 With the prospect of increased trade after the lifting of common market restrictions in 1992 , combined with labour shortages at home , British employers are having to re-assess their attitude to women with children .
17 Sexism and racism did not become public issues because large numbers of men and of white people became aware of their negative attitudes to women and to black people .
18 Consumer concerns are gradually spreading beyond the environment to other issues , including corporate attitudes to women 's advancement , equal opportunities , animal testing and the third world .
19 Furthermore , there are some features of primitivism , attitudes to women for example , or the anti-Semitism of the church fathers , that I find distasteful and not truly Christian .
20 As long as the attitudes to women 's status and obligations and the division of labour within the family remain unchanged , it is difficult to believe that gender will be irrelevant to politics .
21 For eighteenth-century England there is no good history of sex , none of prostitution ; not even a good history of attitudes to women .
22 Traditional values and attitudes to women working outside the home can still cause problems between partners where the woman works outside the home .
23 There certainly have been many changes in both attitudes to women 's sexuality and in women 's sexual practices over the last few decades .
24 This is illustrated by attitudes to women .
25 I do n't really think it 's good enough for Nelly to say that he was socialist because I do n't think his attitudes to women
26 Men are less fortunate , since they not only have to cope with the cultural fear of showing emotion , but also with the dismissive and often lewd attitudes to women with which they are surrounded .
27 It was in attitudes to sex — and specifically male attitudes to women — that It began to argue with the outside world , and itself , almost from the beginning .
28 The history of Western men 's attitudes to women is a history of woman-hatred , often with terrifying consequences .
29 ’ I am very interested in attitudes to women , how women are viewed because of the stereotypes perpetuated by men .
30 CHANGING attitudes to women in business is like changing course in a giant tanker .
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