Example sentences of "of [adj] woman [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching association therefore represents one of the most vocal and important expressions of professional women 's organized opposition to the regime . |
| 2 | At a conference of Salvadorean women 's organizations , it was agreed to set up a Constitutive Committee with a view to creating a Federation of Salvadorean Women . |
| 3 | This introduction to the harshness of working women 's lives was formative and determined her choice of career . |
| 4 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 5 | Thus some women , especially and significantly those who have difficult relationships with men , find themselves drawn into membership of clandestine women 's groups which meet from time to time to honour their spirits . |
| 6 | There 's tons of old woman 's junk up there . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes it also recognizes the specificity of different women 's cultures within this female world . |
| 8 | Durie , who has already lamented the standard of British women 's tennis on show at Telford this week , has now dropped only 16 games in four matches . |
| 9 | A wide range of source material will be examined , including the prison and court records of militant suffragettes jailed in Scotland , minute books of Scottish women 's suffrage associations , and newspaper reports , memoirs , and letters of suffragists , suffragettes , and those who opposed women 's suffrage . |
| 10 | Economics textbooks may still hold to the notion of ‘ work ’ as paid employment and deny the importance of unpaid women 's work ( in agriculture or the home ) in their theories and explanations and their insistence that most countries have moved to a ‘ monetary economy ’ . |
| 11 | New Hall , Cambridge , will soon be opening its doors to reveal an extraordinary collection of contemporary women 's art . |
| 12 | The collection that New Hall has created reflects the fertility of contemporary women 's art , and in many cases , the artists also continue the time 's characteristic , self-reflexive affirmation of female identity . |
| 13 | Along with four other intellectuals , including Regis Debray , feminist writer Elisabeth Badinter signed an open letter to Mr Jospin , saying that the scarf is a symbol of Muslim women 's oppression and warning him not to capitulate . |
| 14 | Yet , against this sense of her work being inevitably implicated in the strategies of European supremacy in the age of slavery and early colonialism , we can not fail to find her representations of white women 's moral character , emotional profundity and historical agency , compelling . |
| 15 | A visit to Paris in 1860 established a French connection for the firm , and the New Series EDM included monthly accounts of the latest Paris styles , a high-quality colour fashion-plate , and the offer of a pattern service for readers , a combination which was to become a staple of twentieth-century women 's magazines . |
| 16 | Knowsley , the home of national women 's champions Halewood , and Wirral appear to be the teams to watch in this mixed under-11 competition , sponsored by Littlewoods/Reebok , but Liverpool are dark horses . |
| 17 | In celebration of International Women 's Day , Apples and Snakes are bringing together many of the most popular and powerful woman poets and performers in the country , including many new performers , for a two week , nation-wide tour from the 1st to the 15th of March — THE MOTHER TONGUE TOUR . |
| 18 | The women at the sit-in issued the following appeal : ’ On the occasion of International Women 's Day , we , the Palestinian Women have been on a hunger strike since February 23 , 1989 in solidarity with our sons who have been holding hunger strikes in Israeli jails in protest against their inhuman prison conditions . |
| 19 | Television presenter Lyn Spencer took the plunge off the edge of a building yesterday as part of International Women 's Week . |
| 20 | This image represents a tiny fraction of the activities and aspirations of International Women 's Day . |
| 21 | Finally , Bobo notes that the recent popularity of Black women 's writing is one of those extra-discursive factors which must be taken into account when looking at cultural practices such as The Color Purple . |
| 22 | Let's look at the position of women once they actually get into the child care role and certainly the position of poor women erm the man is then the wage earner , the women then is relatively powerless . |
| 23 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
| 24 | Carl N. Degler , using evidence from women of the urban middle class in America ( the class to which Acton 's work was directed ) , together with a survey of married women 's sexual attitudes begun in the 1890s by Dr C. D. Mosher , argues that it was more an ideology seeking to be established than the prevalent view or practice of even middle-class women . |
| 25 | In cotton textile workers ' families , where there was a long tradition of married women 's work , one night a week was usually set aside by husbands and wives as ‘ Mary-Ann night ’ . |
| 26 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 27 | Mary MacArthur spoke in defence of married women 's high sickness claims to the Departmental Committee on National Health Insurance in 1914 , but she still feared that any improvement respecting their position under the scheme would ‘ discriminate in favour of the wage-earning woman as against her uninsured sister , whose need is often as great , [ and ] will result in a State premium on the industrial employment of married women ’ . |
| 28 | By 1950 the idea of part-time work for married women had become a solution to the problem of married women 's status for feminists such as Eva Hubback , for policy makers anxious to preserve male work incentives , and for trade unionists concerned about the right to bargain for a family wage . |
| 29 | Soviet families are also of special interest in foreshadowing major western trends : for example , low birth rates , and very high rates of married women 's work and divorce . |
| 30 | The liberal-historians also tend to suggest that permissiveness has allowed greater freedom for sexual ( and other forms of ) expression , though for feminist critics this was simply a reordered means of continuing women 's oppression . |