Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter looks at the efforts of philanthropists and defenders of women 's rights to expand the range of employment for both working-class and middle-class girls who needed to earn a living . |
| 2 | What is required in history , if girls are to have equal opportunity with boys in school , is both a full investigation and exposure of women 's past — recorded and documented in special women 's history books — plus an integration of women and their contribution to history within existing accounts . |
| 3 | Ideas and opinions about women 's issues and the degree of priority they should be given at this stage vary considerably , but it is more than apparent that there are many who now believe that a new society would be incomplete without changes in women 's position . |
| 4 | A factory owner , A. J. Mundella , viewed the legislation as part of the same protective impulse that prompted the Factory Acts , which placed restrictions on the place and hours of women 's labour . |
| 5 | And possible harmful effects sink into the depths of the medical literature , such as : the serious condition of over stimulation of a woman 's ovaries and other adverse effects from the powerful drugs and hormones used on women in earlier fertility treatments , as well as for IVF now ; higher risks of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy and damage to women 's fertility from the invasive methods . |
| 6 | Attending conferences and meetings of women 's organisations or asking to address groups of boys will provide an opportunity for frank discussion which in the case of boys is very inhibited in the presence of their female counterparts . |
| 7 | There are some significant differences between ethnic groups in the extent and level of women 's participation in paid employment . |
| 8 | The programme combines an introduction to the interdisciplinary base and skills of Women 's Studies with specialist work in a chosen subject area . |
| 9 | But while a sophisticated series of discourses has been developed to analyse the problems and conflicts in women 's experience , and especially the pain and anguish of women 's social , domestic , emotional , and sexual lives , the reasons why most women continue to define ourselves , and to practise as heterosexual have remained unexplored . |
| 10 | , Evelyn ( 1869–1955 ) , writer and campaigner for women 's suffrage and for peace , was born in London 4 August 1869 , the ninth child and third daughter of the ten children ( one of whom died in infancy ) of ( John ) James Sharp , slate merchant of London , and his wife Jane , daughter of Joseph Bloyd , lead merchant of London . |
| 11 | These narratives consistently address material conditions and contradictions in women 's lives ; and the international sales figures indicate that those contradictions are not restricted to women in the western cultures of Britain and America . |
| 12 | Further , they feared that ‘ doing ’ what a woman does ( on the stage and in women 's clothes ) leads to ‘ being ’ what a woman is ; the most unmanageable anxiety is that there is no essentially masculine self ( p. 1 36 ) , and cross-dressing in women 's clothes can lead to a man ‘ turning into ’ a woman . |
| 13 | The subtle inflexions of these voices , honeyed or slightly hoarse , moaning and whispering of women 's love , its joys and disappointments , soothe his nerves and relax his limbs . |
| 14 | The myth was used by early churchmen as a vehicle for expressing their horror and disgust at women 's bodies : ‘ What is the difference whether it is in a wife or in a mother , it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any other woman1 , ’ wrote St Augustine in the late fourth century . |
| 15 | Answering this question requires a fuller investigation of the availability and remuneration of work for women and children in both the agrarian and manufacturing sectors of the eighteenth century , but there are no series comprehensive enough to talk of trends and movements in women 's wages . |
| 16 | For both occupational strata female employees earn about 60 per cent of the wages of their male counterparts , and this discrimination against and exploitation of women 's labour has only marginally decreased through legislation such as the Equal Pay Act of 1970 . |
| 17 | But while a sophisticated series of discourses has been developed to analyse the problems and conflicts in women 's experience , and especially the pain and anguish of women 's social , domestic , emotional , and sexual lives , the reasons why most women continue to define ourselves , and to practise as heterosexual have remained unexplored . |
| 18 | ‘ THERE is no way to know … ’ : how it resounds , that phrase , standing for centuries of silence , hints , half-knowledge about the hidden complexity and richness of women 's relations with themselves and each other . |
| 19 | TERESA WICKHAM Safeway director and co-founder of Women 's Farming Union . |
| 20 | So far their almost daily antics have included a variety of canny offensives — successfully protecting against unsympathetic judges in rape trials , filling the White House garden with tennis balls covered in facts and figures of women 's oppression plus the odd rude rad fem slogan , and sending Jane Fonda 's husband , TV mogul Ted Turner , a ‘ We Are Watching ’ letter about his refusal to show pro-choice ads on his channel ( although it shows all the antiabortion propaganda ) . |
| 21 | Such diversity reflects the authors ' commitment to the post 70s feminist interest with the range and variegation of women 's experiences . |
| 22 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |
| 23 | In the first decades of the century Lonsdale notes that there were a number of poets , such as Lady Mary Chudleigh , Octavia Walsh , Elizabeth Tollet , and Mehetabel Wright , who worked very much in isolation ; these are not , however , entirely representative since the Restoration ‘ … brought a new confidence and competence to women 's verse … ’ |
| 24 | Attempts to develop a peinture feminine , on the lines of the écriture feminine proposed by Hélène Cixous ( whose rhapsodic feminism has had much greater impact on the Aglophone world than on her own French audience ) , led to works which sought to represent the very evanescence , immateriality , and ordinariness of women 's existential condition and past works , as in Bobby Baker 's performance art , in which she makes cakes or reproduces her daily kitchen routines , or , Susan Hiller 's cool , barometrically precise account of her own pregnancy , in the graphic work , ‘ Ten Months ’ . |
| 25 | It may seem grudging then to criticise the book for only including four essays on women 's visual images compared with seven pieces on different themes and genres in women 's writing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | , Emily ( 1835–1895 ) , printer and propagandist for women 's employment , was born 27 May 1835 at Headley rectory , Surrey , the youngest of five daughters and the last of the eight children of the Revd Ferdinand Faithfull , rector of Headley , and his wife Elizabeth Mary . |
| 28 | A woman-centered analysis presupposes the centrality , normality , and value of women 's experience and women 's culture ’ ( p. xviii ) . |
| 29 | Dr Berg has suggested that the spread of family-based cottage manufactures played a part in determining the low status and value of women 's work even though it , and that of the increasing number of children they produced , was both necessary for the manufacture and significant for family earnings . |
| 30 | So the MP for Gosport tabled a question to Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , calling for planning guidelines on the size and layout of women 's lavatories in public buildings . |