Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of women " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are what economists call ‘ efficiency ’ reasons , in addition to the obvious grounds of equity , to be concerned about the relative economic weakness of women . |
| 2 | Unlike village and nomadic weaving , which is normally the sole preserve of women and carries with it no personal prestige outside the village or tribe , workshops employ both men and women , and exceptionally talented weavers can earn more widespread acclaim and far greater financial rewards . |
| 3 | For example , a study of women of Pakistani origin living in Bradford shows that the kin group provides a key structure for the guidance and emotional support of women who are newly arrived from Pakistan ( Saifullah Khan , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | While the employers tended to cast around for reasons outside the work process when they wished to disparage women workers , unionists spoke more often of the low level of women compositors " skill . |
| 5 | The training and professional experience of women accountants means that they are ideal candidates for such high level posts . |
| 6 | One possibility is that , with all its institutional faults , the spiritual church offers some form of communication with that part of women that maintains contact with the power of fertility . |
| 7 | It was unequivocally a place where women were held in order to be raped , ’ she said.Observers have also identified a specific category of women raped in order to be made pregnant . |
| 8 | That is the stark injustice of the total humiliation of women on all levels , by men . |
| 9 | However , to demand better working conditions in the home is in a sense contradictory in that this reinforces the social and spatial oppression of women within their domestic roles . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the conspicuous lack of support for equal opportunities from the Scottish Law Society is galvanising the Glasgow-based Association of Women Solicitors ( SAWS ) . |
| 11 | A small-scale study of women caring for frail elderly relatives found average earnings losses of £87 a week among women who had given up or been unable to return to work and average weekly losses of £28 among those still in paid work ( Nissel and Bonnerjea , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 13 | However , ‘ community care ’ appears far less of a cheap option if the unwaged labour of women is included in the financial calculations ( Finch , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | The attraction of this approach is that most up-to-date and enlightened LEA centres , WEA branches and extra-mural departments can be relied upon to include some kind of women 's studies in their provision which is different in kind from domestic education and men 's education . |
| 15 | Gossip may not be a female prerogative , but it certainly is so in the social stereotype of women . |
| 16 | Figure 4.5 illustrates horizontal segregation , showing that in most occupations there is either a clear majority of women or of men ; there are very few occupations in which there is an even proportion of men and women . |
| 17 | Some believe that it is inappropriate to ‘ export ’ a cultural ideology of women 's advancement from one society to another , |
| 18 | In modern times the careful protection of women at stations has declined , and the complex hierarchies of race and class have been simplified . |
| 19 | Except that women were deferential to other speakers they would let they would they were they would allow themselves to be walked over in conversation but at the same time you had this stereotype of women who talked too much . |
| 20 | The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory . |
| 21 | Since conditions of part-time work are usually poor , this concentration of women in part-time employment represents their segregation into the worst part of the labour market . |
| 22 | The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s . |
| 23 | Even her repeated conception of women in groups has firm roots in the classical . |
| 24 | The gastric oxidation of alcohol has been implicated in the enhanced vulnerability of women to complications of alcoholism . |
| 25 | Was one of the problems with the public perception of women deacons the fact that they did , often , look so like librarians ? |
| 26 | The attempt to subvert binary logic threatens to invalidate the structuralist enterprise , and it is not without reason that in the early seventies Kristeva , Irigaray , and other women theorists began to map structuralism 's binary logic onto the social and discursive oppression of women by men . |
| 27 | Law firms have not come to grips with the issues , ’ says Geraldine Cotton , chair of the 5,500-strong English Association of Women Solicitors . |
| 28 | The high concentration of women in jobs which are , in Blauner 's words ‘ the least skilled , the most repetitive , and the least free ’ makes it possible for men to have jobs with the opposite attributes . |
| 29 | What they contested was the presumption that moral reform could be achieved through a centralized programme of sanitary intervention which reinforced the sexual oppression of women . |
| 30 | Yet this portrait of women is incoherent and Walker 's great desire to liberate and celebrate women is compromised by her appropriation of patriarchal perspectives that ultimately constrict this freedom . |