Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] woman do " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is generally the case that women do more housework than men . |
| 2 | On appeal , not merely was no criticism levelled at this direction , but Humphreys J. himself stated that ‘ where … the charge is one of rape it is necessary that the prosecution should prove that the girl or woman did not consent and that the crime was committed against her will . ’ |
| 3 | " Skilled work is work that women do n't do " , as Anne Phillips and Barbara Taylor succinctly put it . |
| 4 | The project examines the work that women do , in particular , the segregation of employment into ‘ men 's jobs ’ and ‘ women 's jobs ’ . |
| 5 | Yet despite these medical tergiversations there is considerable evidence that women did find their own means of resistance . |
| 6 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 7 | However , the argument that women do not image Christ ( or God ) continues to be used to exclude women from ordained leadership in the Church . |
| 8 | Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women . |
| 9 | We agreed that the man or woman does not exist who had never made a mistake , however foolish . |
| 10 | That if evolution was all about survival of the fittest , and if men are physically fitter in the sense of sporting prowess , which they unquestionable are , how has evolution produced the situation in which men have less life expectancy than women do from every point of view this far ? |
| 11 | I mean , with women getting equal pay , when women get equal pay , when there are things like adequate maternity leave and women do n't lose their jobs because they have kids , and when there are enough nurseries — |
| 12 | The gap does seem to have been wider in the past ( 26 hours per week in 1961 , for example ) but these time budgets confirm common sense and findings from the Women and Employment Survey that women do more unpaid work than men . |
| 13 | Some writers have suggested that the increase in the number of household gadgets such as washing machines , fridges , freezers , food mixers , vacuum cleaners and non-stick pans must have significantly reduced the amount of housework that women do . |
| 14 | ISABEL KOPROWSKI ( managing editor , For Women ) : ‘ There 's always been this patronizing idea that women do n't want to see pictures of men 's penises . |
| 15 | And they also say there 's little truth in the myth that women do n't enjoy dirty or sexy jokes . |
| 16 | In relation to the question of the position of women , it would follow that , since — it is thought — the new testament does not allow the headship of a woman , and through the fact that women did not exercise headship in that society , that a woman should be head of state is as wrong as that a woman should exercise headship within the church . |
| 17 | A final twist is given to this situation ; the fact that women do all of this work is often given as an explanation of their inferiority . |