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

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1 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 .
2 The training and professional experience of women accountants means that they are ideal candidates for such high level posts .
3 Meanwhile , the conspicuous lack of support for equal opportunities from the Scottish Law Society is galvanising the Glasgow-based Association of Women Solicitors ( SAWS ) .
4 The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory .
5 One strategy for understanding the cultural divide between women ar.d men in the Arab Middle East is to focus , first or those people — such as women and men of urban elites or upper middle classes for whom changing domestic roles is an explicit issue ; and , second , on a topic — such as marriage and marriage ceremonial where women and men are equally involved and their beliefs and activities may be treated together , not separately .
6 Was one of the problems with the public perception of women deacons the fact that they did , often , look so like librarians ?
7 Law firms have not come to grips with the issues , ’ says Geraldine Cotton , chair of the 5,500-strong English Association of Women Solicitors .
8 There has been no similar move in the British parties , although Conservative party conferences have always had a high proportion of women delegates .
9 These included creating some kind of social security for women artists and making available to them a basic training .
10 General Practice , Social Work , and Mental Health Sections : The Social Control of Women MICHAEL SHEPPARD
11 Lonsdale accepts that the material defies easy summary and generalization [ ECWP , p. xxii ] but proceeds to survey the actual work of women poets through the century , recognizing that there are always some poets who stand outside general trends .
12 As hardly any women smoke cigars of pipes , the inclusion of these products made no difference to the overall proportion of women smokers — 31% [ 1 ] .
13 The average wage of women workers is two-thirds that of men .
14 Apart from the simple work of recovery , Lonsdale provides a good deal of new biographical information about the poets , and , perhaps most importantly , his long introduction provides a comprehensive history of women poets through the century .
15 Their research on Malaysian and Singaporean women export-industry workers ( a category that mostly includes TNC workers ) shows that ethnicity and the availability of alternative employment can be key factors in the social and moral evaluation of women workers , and that there are substantial variations in the conceptions of factory work for women ( whether in TNCs or not ) across different communities .
16 As I represent 25% of the total population of women presidents to date , if my predecessors did not share my feelings a 25% opinion still deserves to be heard , and I believe that some of my successors may well be of the same mind as I am .
17 Westwood offers an account of how the structures of gender , ethnicity and class fit together for a specific group of women workers .
18 A LEADING campaigner for women priests said yesterday she had received death threats .
19 HATE-mail threats to decapitate a leading activist for women priests are being treated seriously by police .
20 HATE-mail threats to decapitate a leading activist for women priests are being treated seriously by police .
21 Taking into account the Society 's view on the operation of the mobility clause and its own survey , the EOC found that the mobility requirement had a disproportionate impact on women applicants and found it indirectly discriminatory contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act .
22 She campaigned on behalf of the National Union of Women Teachers , the Women 's Election Committee , the Open Door Council ( which aimed to remove protective barriers that restricted women 's employment opportunities ) , and organizations concerned with the welfare of women and children in developing countries .
23 One of the most vociferous voices in the dispute was that of Mrs Ogilvie Gordon , chairwoman of the Education Committee of the National Union of Women Workers , and an old campaigner on behalf of vocational guidance for young people .
24 The National Union of Women Workers , NUWW ( a philanthropic offshoot of Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls formed in 1895 ) , launched a fresh assault on the conspiracy of silence over incest at their annual conference in 1906 .
25 Well I think much as I welcome the university proceeding down the road that it is , erm I have a very , very strong feeling that change is going to come from the bottom up , and I think that it 'll come from the bottom up in those colleges , like New College , who have got an increasingly large number of women fellows who feel that , you know , there 's safety in numbers and we can start to do something about it .
26 It is that , according to the Department of Employment figures , if the Labour party 's economic proposals for a minimum wage were put into effect it would cost some 2 million jobs , of which 50,000 would be in Northern Ireland , where we have a large number of women workers in the clothing , textile and garment industries .
27 A PROFOUND shift away from the Tory Party among women voters was taking place , but many women still believed the Labour Party was too male-dominated , Clare Short warned the conference yesterday .
28 The aim of the centre is to train women in a variety of technical skills including some which , for Central America , mark a break with the usual concept of women s work ; electricity , accountancy , the manufacture of kilns and clothes-washing machines .
29 For the great majority of women sterilisation provides peace of mind by removing the fear of unplanned pregnancy and this can lead to a happier sex life .
30 The remaining employers , during the negotiations which followed the mass meeting of 31 August and the threat of a strike , were still sticking at a compromise formula , one which Amelia McLean , putting the women 's case in The Vote , said she was prepared to accept , viz : a five-year ban on women entrants from 1 January 1911 , and the establishment of a 50 per cent distribution of Monotype keyboards between men and women .
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