How to use "women" in a sentence

Two young women suddenly appear below me

The men had beards, and the women had long, untidy hair

The women talked for a few minutes

In the ashes Abbeline found some women's clothing, which Maria Harvey had left in the room

He had killed other women in the same way

Some hoaxers pretended to be the Ripper and followed women to scare them

Hundreds of extra police patrolled the area, some dressed as women

The two women watched the children playing together.

Although she was careful to say nothing about her daughter to anyone, other women at the factory soon discovered her secret

Behind the counter there are two women

The two women move, but slowly; one of them looks down at the counter, where I know there is a secret alarm

Two women sitting together on the front pew, their eyes closed and heads down

He pauses for a moment to try and remember what he has to do next, but then the door to the church opens again, and three women enter

And this time the silence is heavy and tense, and Barry can hear the voices of the women as they leave the church

The sun is lower in the sky now, it's a little less hot, and the radio keeps him company with old songs about love and women, rock and roll and country music

They were fat, rude women like herself

He's a very well-known women's doctor.'

Wardrobe women mended tears and sewed up unraveled hems that had been discovered at the last minute

Many were still in the communal dressing rooms, while other girls, already costumed, waited in the halls or at the edge of the big stage, talking about children and husbands and boyfriends and recipes, as if they were secretaries on a coffee break and not some of the most beautiful women in the world.

That was the term by which casino employees still referred to local, elderly women whose social lives revolved around an obsessive interest in one-armed bandits, even though the nickel machines were pretty much ancient history

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

It was no surprise that women players tipped him more often and more generously than did men.

He or she - it happens to women nearly as often as men

Eventually he started seeing other women

But you were too busy using all those women to hurt me and to prove to yourself what a stud you were

He'd had other women in this bed during the past two years, and a few had stayed the night, but not one of those other lovers had made him feel content merely by the fact of her presence, as Tina did

Besides, though they both struck him as slightly wacky, they didn't seem to be merely hoaxers or borderline psychopaths who got their kicks by scaring defenseless women

But any organization was composed of ordinary men and women, none of whom had the all-seeing gaze of God.

After all, the last couple of years we were married, Michael was running around with a lot of other women, spending most of his time away from home, and Danny felt even more abandoned than I did

Men's and women's voices

The Eyes of Darkness was assigned to a writing team, two quite personable women who seemed bright and enthusiastic

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

No one threatened my life; neither of these women had an unkempt beard (or a kempt one for that matter); neither of them presented us with a body-odor problem; and neither of them indulged in furious political rants that sprayed spittle on those of us who just wanted to make a TV movie.

And, Mrs Clement, you are the only person in the village I can talk to, except a lot of old women.'

She's a woman, and women act in that silly way

My brother learned that the two women were the wife and younger sister of a doctor living in Stanmore, The doctor had heard about the Martians at the railway station, on his way home from seeing a patient, and had sent them off, promising to follow after telling the neighbour

More dust was raised all the time by the thick crowd of men and women, horses and vehicles.

The two women sat in silence.

My brother, watching beside the women in the cart in the field, saw the green flash of it far beyond the hills

On Wednesday my brother and the two women reached Chelmsford, and there a number of people, calling themselves the Council of Public Safety, took their horse for food

It was about two o'clock when my brother got onto it with the two women

We want strong, good women too - mothers and teachers

'No, it's just that women allow them to behave the way they do instead of taking some freedom themselves.'

It's women like you who keep all of us down.'

That man belongs to so many women already...

He hates tears, because, like many men, he knows they are one of the strongest weapons that women have.

A drawing teacher must spend his life in the company of beautiful women who can never be his

Until you came here, Laura was like hundreds of other women who marry without being attracted to their husbands

I walked up to Percival and said, 'You can't keep your wife as a prisoner in her own house! There are laws in England to protect women from cruelty and injustice!'

I can't stay in a house where women are treated like this.'

There was a new inscription written on it: 'Here lies Laura, Lady Glyde...' In the near distance I saw two women with veils over their faces

He knew that none of the village women spoke to me because 6 they thought I had lost my virtue

"I do not wish for women to have power over men; but over themselves."

Women's rights start with the education of girls and women

If we study the history of women's fight for equality with men, education has always been an important topic

It may be the most important topic, because women can only be equal to men if they have an equal education.

In the past, a lot of people believed that women were not as intelligent as men

Why educate them for that? People worried that education was not good for women

In the 18th and 19th centuries, people started to think, write and talk about women's education more and more.

She was an English thinker and writer who wrote about education and social equality for women

Her books have been very important for women's rights, and they are still important today.

In it, she writes that men and women must have equal education

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is very important in the history of women's rights

"Schools do not help girls and women," wrote Mary

With real education, she said, women could be good wives and mothers, but also good workers in many jobs.

Other women wrote about better female education, but Mary's work was really important.

Mary was writing about women and the vote a hundred years before women started fighting for it

Since then, many women have fought for female education - women like Margaret Bancroft and Jane Addams in the United States of America (USA), and Maria Montessori in Italy

In many places in the world, girls and women are still fighting for an equal education.

Educated women have better health and they work more, says the World Bank

There have been many women who have fought for human rights in different countries

In the USA, a lot of black women have fought for freedom

She often spoke about the freedom of the slaves and women's rights

Later, she also fought for the vote for women.

Today, there are still many women fighting for human rights in different parts of the world

Later, Iran's government stopped women from becoming judges.

In 2003, Shirin was given the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in democracy and human rights, and for fighting for the rights of women and children

Rigoberta and these other women have fought for the rights of women, but also for the rights of all humans.

in the future it is going to be made easier for women all over the world to win their fight when their time comes." Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

The fight for the vote was one of the greatest fights that women have had

In the 1890s, parts of New Zealand and Australia were the first places to give women the vote

The first country in Europe to allow women to vote was Finland, which was then part of Russia

Finland also had the world's first women Members of Parliament (MPs), in 1907

After Finland came Norway, which gave the vote to women in 1913

The fight for votes there was led by some very brave women

She was the leader of the "suffragettes" - the name of a group of women who fought for the vote.

Both her mother and her father believed in women's rights.

When she was older, they paid for her to go to a women's school in Paris.

Richard also believed in the vote for women

He wrote some laws in 1870 and 1882 that allowed women to keep their money or houses after they married

In 1889, Emmeline started the Women's Franchise League, which fought for married women to vote in elections

The women walked in the streets and broke windows

She did this because the government would not give women the right to vote

The suffragettes said, "Emily died for women."

Emmeline talked about "we women of England".

But Emmeline and the other women knew that they had to do something

She was very brave, and she knew that women had to win this fight

At times, the suffragettes also chained themselves outside 10 Downing Street - where the British prime minister lives - shouting "Votes for women!"

Winston Churchill - who later became prime minister - started his career against the vote for women, but later he agreed with it

In 1918, women over thirty got the vote after many years of fighting

On 2nd July 1928, women were given equal voting rights with men they could vote at the age of twenty-one

What about today? In the 20th century, women in many countries fought for the vote and got it

Little by little, women have got the vote in almost every country in the world.

Saudi Arabia is the newest country to give women the vote, in 2011

In 2015, women there voted for the first time in town and city elections.

Hatoon al-Fassi was one of the first Saudi Arabian women to vote

The Saudi professor and women's rights leader was driven to the voting station because women were not allowed to drive in 2015

She voted in an almost-empty building, which was for women only.

This was progress for Hatoon al-Fassi and for Saudi Arabian women, but still only 10 percent of Saudi's voters in the 2015 elections were women

In Saudi Arabia and some other countries, like Pakistan, it is difficult for women to go out to vote

But, from June 2018, women in Saudi Arabia were allowed to drive themselves

This may mean that higher numbers of women will vote in the future.

This is thanks to brave women like Emmeline Pankhurst and Hatoon al-Fassi who fought so hard and won.

All over the world, feminist movements have fought, and are still fighting, for women's right to vote

These movements are also fighting for women's right to work, to earn equal pay and to own property

They are fighting for women to get an education and for women to have equal rights when they get married

Feminists have also worked hard to stop sexual assault and other crimes against women at work and at home.

The first wave, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was mostly about women's right to vote

The second wave, which began in the 1960s, was about women's fight for freedom

During this time, women fought for equality in the law and in society

In it, women want to be "themselves"

They fight to be different from how some men want to see them, and from other women.

The fourth wave started around 2012, and it is about sexual harassment and crimes against women at work

For example, the Iranian Women's Movement wanted to achieve women's equality in education, marriage, careers and law

She was the leader of the Arab women's rights movement.

Second-wave feminism also talked about sexual assault against women

In many European countries, married women still had very few rights

For example, in France, married women could not work if their husbands did not agree to it

One of the greatest European women at this time was a French philosopher, thinker and writer called Simone de Beauvoir.

But our gender is made by our society As we grow, society teaches us how to act like women

Women, said Simone, are always described as "The Other" - she means that women do not act like men, and, because of this, men believe that women are not as important as them.

Her thoughts about women in society are still very important today.

It showed that some American women were not happy if they only worked at home

Ten years after her book was published, more than half of the workers in the West were women

She has written many books about women in Islam.

The third and fourth waves of feminism, from the 1990s until today, have often been about women's fight against sexual harassment and assault, and the fight to be "themselves"

These waves are also about the sexism that happens to women every day

The MeToo movement talks about famous men who have hurt or harassed women

Many men in the film and TV business have been accused of harassing women, and of sexual assault.

The project shows that sexism happens to women every day in many ways.

Today some people say that women have won the fight for equality

But it's not true; women all over the world are still fighting for their rights.

In the past, almost all women worked at home

When women started to do paid work in the 19th and early 20th centuries, almost half of it was cleaning and cooking in other people's homes

But women earned half the money that was paid to men for the same jobs

During this time, women also became teachers or nurses

But people thought that this work was not important, and women had to leave their jobs when they married.

War is usually a bad thing, but it has sometimes been good for women and work

In World War One (1914-1918), men left home to fight, and women were needed to work both in the army and in their home country.

World War Two (1939 - 1945) gave millions of jobs to women in the USA and in the United Kingdom

Thousands of American and British women joined the army

This meant that women had to go out to work because they needed to feed their children.

After the war ended and the men came home, more than 2 million women lost their jobs

In the USA and the United Kingdom, women had to return home

Newspapers and magazines told women to keep a nice, clean home while their husbands were at work

There were still jobs for women, but they were usually in shops or for secretaries

However, the number of women working outside the home was still higher than before

This was because a lot of men did not come home from the war, so women had to work to look after their families.

Factories were making lots of new things, and this meant there were new jobs for women

In the 1950s and 1960s, the number of women who worked outside the home went up again.

In the 1970s, women began to go to colleges and universities to study

More women were going to college and wanted to go out to work

This was a change from women in the past, who only worked a little because they got married and had children

In the West, doctors could help women to choose how many children they had

Today, the number of women at work continues to go up

In 2014 in Canada, for example, over 47 percent of workers were women

Today, in many countries, women need to go out to work to help their families

They are also going into "men's" jobs - these days there are women pilots, judges and astronauts!

Lean In is a book to help women to achieve their career goals

In the USA in 2016, women earned about 82 cents for every dollar a man made.

In the United Kingdom, more than three out of four businesses pay men more than women

In many jobs, men earn 10 percent more than women earn.

In 2018, it was discovered that the BBC was paying some men a lot more than women for the same jobs

One of the women who spoke about the problem was Carrie Gracie.

In January 2018, she left her job in China because the BBC were paying women less than men

In many parts of the world, women cannot work outside of the house, or cannot work where they want to

There have been women in science for many hundreds of years

Some women were working in medicine, for example, in early times

Even in Ancient Greece, women were able to study science.

In these early times, the number of women in science was not high

But, in the 20th century, women started to study and work in science more and more

Her parents were teachers who believed in the education of women

Later in the 20th century, there were more women in science, and some of them did very important work

Her father did not want her to be a scientist because it was difficult for women, and he told her to study something different

Since those days, a lot of female scientists have won the Nobel Prize - women like Barbara McClintock, Rita Levi-Montalcini and Gertrude B

Now, more and more women are entering science

Today, still only 30 percent of the world's scientists are women

Now, there is a group of young women scientists who are doing wonderful things

More and more women are now going into science because of female scientists like Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin and Emily Levesque.

We know that, in many countries, women started to get the vote in the first years of the 20th century

In the 20th century, women made some progress in this fight.

In Parliament, she talked about women's rights

When Nancy became an MP, women could only vote at the age of thirty.

Nancy wanted women of twenty-one years old to vote

In 1928, women got the vote at twenty-one.

She did many things that women were not able to do before, like being an MP

The 20th century and the first part of the 21st century have seen big steps for women in politics

There have been many women leaders - women like Indira Gandhi in India, Golda Meir in Israel, and Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May in the United Kingdom

These are a few of the women who have led or are leading their countries as prime ministers or presidents

Hillary is a lawyer, and in her career, she has worked hard for the rights of women and of families

In a talk in 1995, she said, "Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights." She said that a country cannot be great if its women are not free

She spoke about the rights of women in the world

In countries where women do well, she said, everyone does well.

But, in many countries, it is still hard for women to enter into politics

Often, women have to choose between having a family and having a career

Also, politics has always been a career for men, and when women become politicians, some people say bad things to them.

Only 208 of them were women - that is 32 percent

And that is the highest number of women MPs in British history

This was 100 years after some women first got the vote and almost a hundred years after Nancy Astor entered Parliament.

Usually, in the world, the number of women in a country's parliament is 23 percent

For example, there are not many women in the Parliament of Sri Lanka

In 2017, four of the countries with the highest number of women in their parliaments were in Central and South America

There are more and more women prime ministers and presidents in the world, and they are also becoming younger

Jacinda Ardern has said, "I hope that one day this will not be interesting anymore." She wants it to be normal for women to be in politics and to be mothers.

Half of the people who live in the world are women

Many people hope that, in the future, 50 percent of the world's governments will be women.

Just five years later, in 1908, women pilots started flying

One of the first women to fly was a young woman called Amelia Earhart

People will remember Amelia Earhart because she was brave and because she achieved so much for women and flight

After Amelia Earhart, there were many women pilots in the USA

William thought that women should also be able to go into space

He knew that the Soviet Union wanted to have women astronauts, too

The USA wanted to be the first country to put women in space, so, in 1960, William began to test women in the USA as astronauts.

Thirteen women pilots were asked to join it, and Wally Funk was one of them.

She, like the other women, had to do lots of difficult tests

In one test, the women were placed in special rooms with water where they could not hear anything or see anything

But the programme was stopped before the women could finish their last test

Was this because of sexism? Maybe the men became afraid that the women were equal, or sometimes better, than them.

After the Women in Space programme, women started to go into space, but the first woman was Russian, not American.

Valentina and four other women had eighteen months of lessons

Of the five women, only Valentina went into space.

Today, it is much easier for women to become astronauts.

The modern history of women in sport started in the 19th century

At that time, golf and tennis were two of the sports that women played

At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, in 1896, there were no women

But only twenty-two women played in those Games, out of the 997 people from nineteen countries

Little by little, more women's sports were in the Olympics

In these Games, there were more sports that women could take part in

Fanny Blankers-Koen was one of the first women to show that women could also be great athletes

When Billie Jean King was twelve years old, she decided that she wanted to fight for equal rights for girls and women

But she soon knew that tennis was different for women than for men.

She was number one in the world in women's tennis

But Billie Jean saw that women tennis players did not win as much money as men

The US Open became the first big tournament to give equal money to its men and women top players

Today, tennis is one of the few sports that pays its men and women the same in big tournaments

The women's game was much worse than the men's game, he said

Billie Jean knew that the match was very important for women's rights.

But she did not just play tennis; she also made great progress for women's equality and for women's pay in sport

In many countries, women's fight to be in sports has taken longer

In Saudi Arabia, for example, it was 2012 when two women went to the Olympics for the first time

Since 1980, in Iran, the government has not allowed women into stadiums to see all-men sports

In June 2018, the Azadi Stadium's doors were opened to women and men during the last two Iran games at the 2018 World Cup.

This goal talks about empowering women, which means helping them to become stronger and braver

All the women in this book have felt empowered to achieve great things, and they have helped to empower other women.

The history of women's empowerment is long, and a lot of progress has been made

But there are still many things that stop women from enjoying an equal life.

More than 700 million women in the world today were married before the age of eighteen

In sub-Saharan Africa, 40 percent of women are married as children

Loveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi were two young women from Zimbabwe who were married to men when they were sixteen years old

The two young women were very brave, and they were empowered

One of the biggest stories of women's empowerment has come with the MeToo movement, which started in 2017

MeToo was used a lot from October 2017 on social media to show that there is a lot of sexual assault and harassment of women, everywhere in the world

At the same time, famous men in the film business, like Harvey Weinstein, were accused of harassing and assaulting women - and men in TV and politics have also been accused of these crimes

Alyssa told women to write about sexism and harassment on social media to show how big the problem was

Today, women in many different countries are using MeToo every day to tell people about the assault and harassment they get

Many famous women said "Me Too" - Hollywood actors like Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Judd, Jennifer Lawrence and Uma Thurman have all said it

More than 300 women from Hollywood got together and started a group called "Time's Up"

They asked for money for women who have been sexually assaulted

17,700,000 women say that they have been sexually harassed or assaulted since 1998.

Time magazine gave the "Person of the Year" for 2017 to the brave women who spoke about the problem of sexual harassment and assault.

In many countries, it is very difficult for women to talk about sexual assault

Many women became brave because they saw other brave women in the MeToo movement

They chose to speak after other women spoke out.

In the 21st century, women are stronger and braver than ever

But thanks to the women in this book - and others - women are now much more equal in society than they have ever been before.