Example sentences of "about women 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |
| 2 | The analysis will be conducted inn relation to theories about women 's position in the labour market and the role of training in relation to it , such as human capital theory and the theory of capitalist patriarchy . |
| 3 | Women sailors who might not have their sights set on such lofty goals — or , for that matter , those who have — will be interested in a seminar about women 's sailing to be held in February . |
| 4 | When we were doing Today 's History at six , for example , Juliet Gardiner did a particular programme about women 's history . |
| 5 | Well , when we were doing the long-running series , Today 's History , it seemed perfectly sensible to do a programme about women 's history , along with a number of other things which were n't adequately covered . |
| 6 | It did not worry about women 's invisibility precisely because it accepted prevailing views that politics should be left to men , that the proper forum for female participation is inevitably the family and that the main function of the politically competent woman is to socialise the children and to filter the needs of home and family into the political system . |
| 7 | To extrapolate what they might say about women 's experience under patriarchy on the basis of comments about the reading material they choose is quite a leap . |
| 8 | Lush do n't sing about the sort of thing that Hole and Babes sing about , but it does n't say anything less worthwhile about women 's experience . |
| 9 | A technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination , but the fact that the returning officer was prepared to accept her candidature ended the controversy about women 's eligibility . |
| 10 | For instance , difference theorists dislike the implication that everything about women 's behaviour can be traced simply to their subordination , and this resistance has a lot to recommend it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |
| 13 | You clearly do n't know anything about women 's pride . |
| 14 | All in all , then , claims about women 's conservatism are stereotypical , sexist and in many cases just plain wrong . |
| 15 | In 1977 , when I joined the organization , it was more than apparent that the other women did not have the remotest idea about women 's liberation , felt that doing the cooking for men was their political contribution , etc . |
| 16 | From Jespersen to Lakoff to the feminist in the discussion group , people who talk about women 's language have a regrettable propensity to overlook this problem . |
| 17 | About Women 's Trouble |
| 18 | We were aware that women have exercised and do exercise certain kinds of power given particular social arrangements ; we were aware too of the need for new ways of thinking about power which would allow us to answer questions about women 's authority , power , influence and status in different times and places . |
| 19 | Information and resource centre about women 's health issues , providing lists of clinics offering donor insemination services . |
| 20 | Pauline is also in the middle of writing for a new BBC programme about women 's health to be screened around next April . |
| 21 | I could tilt your opinion back the other way with other evidence : about the feminization of poverty , about women 's loss of land , the ravages of the debt crisis — of any crisis — on the most vulnerable : on the women and their children . |
| 22 | ‘ Birth control is n't just about the population problem , it 's about women 's autonomy , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 24 | Feminist thinking does not , of course , exist in a vacuum , and in thinking about women 's autonomy , feminists have drawn on different ( and conflicting ) approaches to questions about the human self , some of which have a long history . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Take A League Of Their Own , Penny Marshall 's comedy about women 's baseball during WWII , which stars Madonna and Geena Davis and has coined it in America . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This was a dispute about future technology as much as about women 's labour . |
| 30 | While the state has made no attempt to erode traditional ideas about women 's role in society through the schools , many teachers are aware of the problem : |