Example sentences of "[noun sg] opportunity for women " in BNC.

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1 Most heads of households within the cities do , on the whole , find employment , and job opportunities for women may be better than elsewhere .
2 Our support for businesses in the communities , Opportunity Two Thousand , and the setting of targets , which are public targets , confirms our commitment to encourage high level job opportunities for women .
3 This family carries out its child rearing and educating functions inevitably at the expense of career opportunities for women .
4 The expansion of educational and professional training opportunities for women has done very little to alter the concentration of female professionals in ‘ domestic ’ professions : most professional women are still teachers or nurses — both jobs closely allied with the traditionally ‘ nurturant ’ role of women .
5 We will give priority to support for family-planning programmes , education and employment opportunities for women , and basic provision for old age .
6 The Women 's Film and TV Network was set up to link women working in the industry and to encourage training and employment opportunities for women in the media .
7 Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home .
8 Also , if the government is serious about developing decent employment opportunities for women , the training and educational agencies will have to look to broadening their remits to include and promote non-traditional areas of work for women .
9 The traditional view is that females are more likely to predominate among rural out-migrants for two main reasons : employment opportunities for women are even more restricted than those for men in rural areas , and women are more likely to move after marriage than are men ( Hannan 1970 ) .
10 The Employment Act of 1989 further extended equal employment opportunities for women and removed restrictions on the types of employment available to them .
11 A few weeks ago , he told us that that would ruin employment opportunities for women .
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