Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] women 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , there was relatively little leisure-time involvement by husbands with their mates but considerable participation in what traditionally has been regarded as women 's work , especially child-rearing . |
| 2 | In the data there is some support for the notion that certain matters such as child care and support for elderly people are regarded as women 's business in families , while men 's business is money ; but it would be too crude to assume that this simple division of responsibilities could explain all the gender differences which occur in kin support . |
| 3 | The idea that straight people ’ benefitted ’ from lesbian and gay oppression was raised , also the need for a lifting of oppressive sexuality , and the question of how lesbian oppression differed from women 's oppression . |
| 4 | In Britain , we now have three publishing houses committed to women 's writing and at least two of the large publishing companies now carry a separate list for books of special interest to women . |
| 5 | Some policy statements , such as the 1974 " Integrated Population Policy " , have argued for women 's integration into the workforce and for increased educational opportunities , on the grounds that women 's status is positively correlated with a reduction in fertility . |
| 6 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 7 | In particular Lester Ward and W. I. Thomas took over themes from Comte and Spencer and developed their own form of biological dogma and social prescription applied to women 's place . |
| 8 | That she could deal with the philosophical and ideological issues related to women 's position in the family is evident from the poem ‘ Man the Monarch ’ in which she debunks the view that men 's sovereignty over women derives from Adam : |
| 9 | Yet there is evidence ( for example in the numerous letters written to women 's magazines on educational matters ) that they believe themselves to have spent their school-days sitting at their desks reciting the multiplication tables and learning how to parse sentences in the English language . |
| 10 | In the video ‘ Perfect X ’ K Dieroff balances precariously between ideals of beauty and self-mutilation as she takes a knife to her nose accompanied by a barrage of adjectives distilled from women 's magazines . |
| 11 | Studies which address such complexities tend to be performed in women 's studies rather than within feminist psychology . |
| 12 | White or coloured , it is often used in women 's boots and fashionable outdoor footwear . |
| 13 | I 'm interested in the role of women all over the world , particularly in terms of what effect development strategies have had on women 's position , not merely in India but in other parts of the world as well , because I feel that there are a lot of common experiences which impinge on the problem as it relates to India . |
| 14 | We looked at European history and traced the effects which the growth of specialised institutions of government and administration have had on women 's potential for political influence . |
| 15 | He shows , without condescension , that Sylvia is inherently decent for all that her culture is founded on women 's magazines and television serials . |
| 16 | Here we see traces of the power earlier societies attributed to women 's tears as an aid to resurrection . |
| 17 | Support for lranian women is to be raised in women 's trade unions . |
| 18 | An awareness of dirt can often be detected in women 's descriptions of their environment . |
| 19 | The delegate meeting of the STA at Dumfries in 1895 had called upon those branches affected by women 's employment to " exercise their influence in every way to secure the standard wages and fair conditions of employment for female compositors " . |
| 20 | In this sense , all the themes discussed so far contain ‘ women 's issues ’ and have to be treated from women 's perspectives to arrive at true and complete reality . |
| 21 | Such doors could have been secured by the use of a drawbar ; keys for the operation of such devices are known from some better provided for women 's graves . |
| 22 | I 've also taken the therapy techniques I 've known into women 's groups and they 've adopted methods of having a dialogue in the group and stuff shifted in the group like lightning . |
| 23 | The ‘ splitting off of consciousness ’ , and the alien , critical attitudes which result , help to account for departures from convention which are particularly marked in women 's writing at many points throughout the twentieth century , and continue to be as a strong area of postmodernist development . |
| 24 | They are most commonly found in women 's graves of the sixth century accompanied by a relatively large quantity of grave-goods . |
| 25 | She had sharp words for those men who believed time spent in women 's company was ‘ mis'employ 'd ’ but admitted that among the ‘ inferior sort ’ , ‘ the Condition of the two Sexes ’ was ‘ more level ’ than among their social superiors . |
| 26 | In many respects they were not deceived by the images of life portrayed in women 's literature but had a very realistic idea of what married life held in store for them . |
| 27 | Attention on fashion for most of the public was concentrated on women 's clothes , with mini-skirts and boots emphasising the rapid change in attitudes . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't know what is happening , but that may yet be allocated to women 's issues . ’ |
| 29 | It wants more and better quality coaches , special attention given to women 's athletics , improved communication — and the appointment of a national director of development . |
| 30 | It was at a time when many lesbians , angry at the lack of weight given to women 's issues within the mixed movement and at the continuing sexism of many gay men , chose to prioritize work with the women 's movement . |