Example sentences of "opportunity for woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The journey to Equality of Opportunity for women has not yet been completed . |
| 6 | Respect for the individual implies equal opportunity for women and minorities — and IBM has set some good examples . |
| 7 | Today senior managers in the RUC have a formal commitment to equal opportunities for women in pay and promotion and in many facets of their duties . |
| 8 | A similar shift occurred on attitudes to policies which promote equal opportunities for women and ethnic minorities and the provision of abortion on the National Health Service . |
| 9 | A follow-up meeting in December of that year acted upon suggestions made at the earlier gathering , and aimed to ‘ set up opportunities for women to explore new approaches to theatre-making that more profoundly reflect their own experience rather than that of men ’ . |
| 10 | They want to live in socially responsible communities communities where care and opportunity , protection from poverty and crime and pollution , access to transport , housing and education , equal treatment and opportunities for women and men are rights of citizenship and not dependent on individual wealth . |
| 11 | This family carries out its child rearing and educating functions inevitably at the expense of career opportunities for women . |
| 12 | We will give priority to support for family-planning programmes , education and employment opportunities for women , and basic provision for old age . |
| 13 | Many modernisation theorists argued that industrialisation would open up opportunities for women , providing them with a greater variety of possible roles and increasing chances of social mobility and a less subservient existence . |
| 14 | There has been some expansion , too , of opportunities for women in the white-collar categories of employment ; |
| 15 | Despite the general lack of opportunities for women , sex-typing of occupations reserves some areas of work mainly for them . |
| 16 | There is no doubt that the FMC which , by 1980 , represented over 80 per cent of Cuban women , has done much to improve opportunities for women and , above all , to give them dignity and respect in society . |
| 17 | Ask at your local college if they run a ‘ New Opportunities for Women ’ , or a ‘ Wider Opportunities Scheme ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was involved in the London Women 's Film Group and the setting up of Cinema of Women in the late seventies ; then there was a sense of a political project , opportunities for women to meet and discuss ideas and motivations . |
| 20 | This training can extend beyond the recruitment of ethnic minorities to opportunities for women , the disabled and lesbians and gays . |
| 21 | On the other hand , in urban areas there are now more opportunities for women with high school education to find jobs . |
| 22 | Most heads of households within the cities do , on the whole , find employment , and job opportunities for women may be better than elsewhere . |
| 23 | These include the possibility of issuing equal opportunity guidelines for use by the profession and of formalising ‘ networking ’ opportunities for women . |
| 24 | Some feminist therapy offers a pick-and-mix set of opportunities for women to become more effective , in work and relationships , on the board , at the sink , or wherever personal or social inclination puts them . |
| 25 | WACC is equally grateful to all those women who keep up the pressure and insist on equal opportunities for women and men . |
| 26 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | These policies might be concerned to promote trade-union conditions , health and safety policies , or equal opportunities for women or black workers ; but they might also stray into areas far removed from the purpose of the contract . |
| 29 | In part the answer might lie in a ‘ revolution of rising expectations ’ , a growing , perceived contradiction between the overt ideologies of equality and the apparent growth in opportunities for women opened out through the educational and employment systems , on the one hand , and the actual experience of being a woman on the other . |
| 30 | 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 . |