Example sentences of "[conj] woman 's [noun] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the old view that women 's crime is physically explainable would still appear to be influential , despite the fact that there is no real evidence for such explanations . |
| 2 | It is based on the conviction that women 's liberation is principally about personal and social change but that the opportunity for consciousness-raising and intellectual clarification of ideas and strategies , together with the consolidation that can come from collective support and struggle , constitutes really useful knowledge in the old radical sense . |
| 3 | This gives the lie to the notion that women 's liberation is only a middle-class indulgence — the refuges are a complex resource maintained by a poor movement for poor women . |
| 4 | Typically it means that steps are taken to ensure that women do not take away a proportion of the kin group 's resources when they marry — which can mean variously , that women 's sexuality is tightly controlled , that women are given little choice about whom they marry , that there is a preference for choosing marriage partners from within the kin groups ( Tillion , 1983 ; Goddard , 1987 ) . |
| 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 | Statistical analyses of sex differences have led to a popular belief that men 's behaviour is dominated by the left hemisphere of the brain ( logical , linear thinking , structured ) and women 's behaviour is more frequently dominated by the right hemisphere ( intuitive , visual , lateral ) . |
| 7 | Much of the history of women and women 's movements is still to be written . |
| 8 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 9 | Marxist feminists are quick to point to the essentialism of much of radical feminism , and argue that while women 's oppression is almost universal , it has taken different forms in different societies . |
| 10 | One can offer three principle objections to it , which constitute general criticisms of stratification theory , but relate specifically to the issue of whether women 's situation is adequately represented in the theory ( or its practice in research ) . |