Example sentences of "[noun] for woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons Social Services Committee acknowledged this in 1982 , when it concluded its investigation of flexible retirement policies by recommending that the limit of employment protection for women should be 65 . |
| 2 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
| 3 | In 1910 , when a delegacy for women students was set up , control of the home students was taken over by the university and Bertha Johnson became the first woman to hold a senior university appointment in Oxford as principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students . |
| 4 | Taking their work together , two main reasons for women 's status consciousness emerge , each one related to the supposed gender-role of women . |
| 5 | The growth and development of new technologies and scientific knowledge have inspired programmes providing positive discrimination for women in areas concerned with science and computing . |
| 6 | Mills and Boon has become a generic term for a mass popular fiction for women , and with that metonym has defined an area of study of popular cultural forms . |
| 7 | A man who has skills of basic cooking , cleaning and mending already within his grasp is better prepared ; and by the same token , retirement provides an opportunity for women to learn some ‘ male ’ skills , such as wiring plugs , changing tap washers , and other household repairs so that , if she should be widowed , she will not feel totally helpless . |
| 8 | This could provide an open opportunity for women to exploit couples who are desperate for a child by persuading them to hand over a substantial sum of money in lieu of a service that can not be legally enforced . |
| 9 | The conference was a welcome and vital opportunity for women and men , both black and white , to share information and their experiences , to use these to identify and challenge oppression and to begin to build a vision of how the personal social services might and can be different . |
| 10 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 11 | The journey to Equality of Opportunity for women has not yet been completed . |
| 12 | Respect for the individual implies equal opportunity for women and minorities — and IBM has set some good examples . |
| 13 | No I I prefer longer hair for women |
| 14 | They 're always telling us that it 's a paradise for women , ’ said Lord Burdon . |
| 15 | The army later gave permission for women , children under 18 and men over 60 to leave Sarajevo next week . |
| 16 | The case for women to eschew marriage was , of course , made most forcefully by Mary Astell who , unlike Roxana , was not inclined to consider the merits of being a mistress . |
| 17 | Essentially , occupational pension schemes are designed — by men with male ‘ family wage-earners ’ and male middle-class career patterns in mind , so not only do they exclude the majority of part-time workers , but they tend to assume that earnings peak in the final years of working life , which is much less often the case for women than for men . |
| 18 | Emily Pfeiffer 's case for women 's education , for example , was couched in language that would appease social Darwinists . |
| 19 | ‘ But then that 's the case for women in most jobs . ’ |
| 20 | These laws are not perfect and will not satisfy everyone in the Church , but they will achieve provision for women to be ordained as priests — and at the same time seek to respect the consciences of those opposed . |
| 21 | By 1907 , the CUB , acting on a plan initiated by W. H. Beveridge , was busy opening exchanges in every London borough , each of which made special provision for women and juveniles , and provided vocational guidance for school-leavers through working in co-operation with the ASEA and the Education Department of the LCC . |
| 22 | He talked eloquently about how the NHS failed in its provision for women . |
| 23 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 24 | feel about how the way the women are treated in B M K , do you think that , I mean is there enough provision for women , especial erm are you taking into consideration , do you feel on er is , do you feel that you 're not , your needs are n't particularly catered for , I mean in the sense of , you might not have experienced this yourself but like er , maternity provisions , things like that , I mean you get maternity leave , do you feel that |
| 25 | An Independent Labour Party pamphlet of 1900 declared that true freedom for women lay in not having to earn ‘ any wage under any conditions ’ . |
| 26 | And a little later Havelock Ellis noted ( also citing Booth ) that : ‘ The advantage for women of free sexual unions over compulsory marriage is well recognised in the case of the working classes in London , amongst whom sexual relationships before marriage are not unusual and are indulgently regarded . ’ |
| 27 | A typical American text called Leadership Skills for Women counsels : ‘ Use strong , direct language and stand firm when you are interrupted . |
| 28 | The characteristic that courses for career women , courses reclaiming the curriculum on behalf of women 's history and culture , and courses providing useful knowledge and skills for women reconstituting their traditional roles have in common is the recognition that some women at least have expectations , aspirations and preoccupations which are not well catered for in the mainstream provision of adult education . |
| 29 | They 've got erm an adult literacy course if you want to brush up on your reading and your writing they 've got computer courses they 've got a course in sound engineering and a works skills for women course which is what Sarah did . |
| 30 | That was Sarah who did the Works Skills for Women Course at Fast Forward and that 's now helped her to get on to some G C S E courses at college . |