Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does have strong views on women 's role in employment , on child care facilities and on the effect on part-time employment of the Social Chapter . |
| 2 | These interviews concentrate on the impact of new agricultural inputs on women 's work , changes in the arrangement of marriages ( including dowry payments ) and differences in women 's access to health care particularly in relation to pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 3 | So the Wife of Bath and the Prioress together challenge the social norms of women 's roles ; the shifting surfaces of the Pardoner 's blatant hypocrisy tease the reader into an uncomfortable awareness of the unfathomable nature of human motivation for the onlooker ; the Nun 's priest 's juxtaposition of intellectual solemnity with quick-witted pragmatism and his stress on the saving grace of social charity cuts self-importance down to size . |
| 4 | Russo 's ( 1982 ) review of current , mainly feminist , psychology of women courses enumerates the ignored elements of women 's lives on which they concentrate : birth control , abortion , lesbianism , minority women 's experience , and the effects of male power and violence . |
| 5 | It must also be recognised that ‘ housing need ’ will vary at different periods of women 's and men 's lives . |
| 6 | In other words , the proliferation of terms that function as sexual slurs on women 's reputation is used as a weapon to keep women in line . |
| 7 | But male opponents of women 's suffrage , who based their case primarily on sexual difference , showed very little inclination to change their views . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These and similar articles on women 's and other pages were syndicated from agencies in Britain . |
| 10 | I was mostly bored by the degree course I was doing and spent more and more of my time skiving off to extra-mural classes in Women 's Studies , which were just beginning to happen , and devouring feminist books . |
| 11 | The clarity of vision in those early years of women 's liberation has gone . |
| 12 | Blood represents death , and all the latent male fears of women 's sexuality find expression in branding her as impure and avoiding her company . |
| 13 | Jones sets out to document and to praise the distinctive historical and contemporary modes of women 's speech , ignored by linguists and trivialised culturally by terms like gossip ( which Jones proposes to reclaim ) . |
| 14 | As self portraiture , in the work of women like Helen Chadwick and Jo Spence , it makes certain specific statements about women 's sexuality and self image . |
| 15 | Do they derive from the power of men over women in the domestic arena and/or the labour market , or do they reflect the wishes of the carers themselves , or the assumptions about sex roles embedded in social policies or the ideology of sex-role stereotyping and prevailing ideas of women 's proper place … |
| 16 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Feminist socialization theories explain even the most apparently natural aspects of women 's and men 's subjectivity as learned . |
| 19 | Even Maccoby and Jacklin ( 1974 ) use the sex difference they are most sure of , women 's lower aggression , to give credence to other , less well-established hypotheses of women 's lesser competitiveness and their liking for large groups . |
| 20 | Feminists who are not linguists also have strong folklinguistic beliefs about women 's speech , and they are — once again — reminiscent of the beliefs of anti-feminists , though of course the feminists interpret them differently . |
| 21 | Friedan ( 1965 ) quotes social psychological surveys on women 's self-esteem , without questioning the dubious methodology of this field . |
| 22 | Although arguments about women 's impurity are not used explicitly in the statements of the Vatican and various national episcopacies against women 's ordination , they are implied . |
| 23 | For example , the psychological dilemmas of women 's two roles discussed in the late 1950s by Myrdal and Klein are said by them to affect only the minority of educated middle-class women . |
| 24 | Latin America has the lowest female participation rate of any region in the world , including the Middle East , despite their stringent constraints on women 's activities . |
| 25 | The images of jewelled and manicured hands working with machine parts challenges presuppositions about ‘ feminine ’ handiwork , and by extension comments on the supposed limits of women 's art itself . |
| 26 | Workshops , day schools , short and more intensive courses about women 's literature and history and psychology and health , for example , have become a feature of every self-respecting liberal studies programme ; whilst courses in self-defence , assertiveness training , women 's sexuality , welfare rights , peace studies and feminist politics have helped to reconstitute what is usually defined as a relevant curriculum for women . |
| 27 | She was a popular and conscientious teacher , whose optional courses on women 's writing were oversubscribed . |
| 28 | Judaism recognizes the tremendous power of women 's sexuality , and it is the acknowledgement of this power that is at the heart of many of the Jewish laws concerning women 's lives . |
| 29 | The project will also examine the responses of these two groups to heterosexual relationships and their roles in relationships and will look at responses to feminism and other challenges to the traditional conceptions of women 's and men 's different social positions . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |