Example sentences of "the [noun] of women " in BNC.
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| 1 | As women are largely responsible for the emotional wellbeing of society , it is hardly surprising that the shop-talk of women is gossip . |
| 2 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 3 | This was evident in press coverage of the activities of women protesters outside the American air base at Greenham Common . |
| 4 | Finally , of those informally admitted , the majority of women were no longer contributing to the running of the household . |
| 5 | Since previous to the revolution the majority of women had very low levels of education and , therefore , few opportunities open to them , the FMC embarked on an educational program and a rehabilitation scheme for the many women who found themselves in degrading and unrewarding situations . |
| 6 | The majority of women do undertake paid work in their later middle life , and it can be just as wrenching for them to leave it as for men . |
| 7 | Or has this issue never previously been on the Church 's agenda because the majority of women did not — until our century — have the education , the freedom or the position in society to enable them to take a priestly role ? |
| 8 | The majority of women are single parents and about half have needed assistance with social security benefits . |
| 9 | The majority of women remained in the ‘ tribal trustlands ’ as subsistence farmers , relying on remittances to supplement their meagre income from farming . |
| 10 | By the turn of the century , the majority of women will probably be entitled to the basic pension in their own right , though perhaps not at the full amount . |
| 11 | The majority of women , however , will probably have left parents and home a long time before , and spent many of their subsequent years caring for children and a partner , running the home and having a job too . |
| 12 | But the majority of women in all walks of life looked to make their career as housewives . |
| 13 | What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism . |
| 14 | Their wives were chic , exquisitely dressed — far better than the majority of women in post-war Paris . |
| 15 | Many men escape this , for most of them predecease their wives , but the majority of women have to face the crushing blow of widowhood . |
| 16 | Our survey also discovered that the majority of women work to live rather than live to work , thus dispelling the myth of the selfish working mother . |
| 17 | We are also aware that for the majority of women , a visit to a car showroom or Service Department can be a difficult and sometimes downright unpleasant experience due to indifferent attitudes by some Sales/Service staff who are under the misguided impression that because you are female you know little or nothing about the motor car . |
| 18 | However , for the majority of women , planning intercourse to coincide with ovulation and predicting their most fertile time is easier said than done . |
| 19 | The majority of women expect to be in employment . |
| 20 | We know that the majority of women who are raped do not approach the police for fear of the judicial procedure they may face and the publicity they may have to endure . |
| 21 | To the majority of women , the fact that the famous Parisian fashion houses had closed , that silk stockings and imported luxury goods were more expensive and more difficult to obtain meant very little . |
| 22 | The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns . |
| 23 | The majority of women 's organisations , even those representing employed women , have never ( until very recently ) made family allowances one of their major preoccupations , although equal pay has ( and still is ) an issue of vital concern . |
| 24 | The majority of women aged 35 and over were using some form of birth control . |
| 25 | Besides being paid less per hour the majority of women employees in both sectors work fewer hours than their male counterparts . |
| 26 | Primogeniture was enforced and the majority of women became legal incompetents . |
| 27 | So apparently have the majority of women . |
| 28 | The majority of women employed there work a 15-hour week and consequently do n't pay a National Insurance stamp and lose maternity rights and pay . |
| 29 | And for women who work less than 16 hours per week ( as do the majority of women in West Belfast ) the legislation does not cover them ; there is no obligation to monitor those working under 16 hours per week ! |
| 30 | It is impossible to dodge the question of marriage : as has already been noted , the majority of women did marry , and if they lived in Edinburgh , they almost invariably gave up paid work on marriage . |