Also last month,the United Nations agreed to combine four agencies and offices into a single, stronger agency to work on women's issues.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.

但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。

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Women went to work, most famously in the Lowell factories in Massachusetts and in other places.

妇女外出工作,最著名的是位于马萨诸塞州,的洛威尔纺织厂

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She compared states, looking at differences in high school sports participation and in women's education and work.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

The women wanted to work and earn money, but they needed money to get started.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

The alliance will identify target markets and work to get women involved in business operations.

VOA: special.2010.09.27

In Oman,women have made gains in areas of higher education, the work force and politics.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

But after the war, women were expected to stay at home and have babies while their husbands went back to work in factories and laboratories.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

Mrs.Wakefield says she has gone on to organize a small group of women who work with her, and they sell their beads to a religious group.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

And he shortened the work day for women and children.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

In Syria, women are trafficked from South and Southeast Asia and are forced to work as domestic servants.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

When Elaine Fuchs began her undergraduate studies, there were very few women in the sciences, and their work was rarely encouraged or recognized.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

She also said women must be at the "front and center" of U.S.development work.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

The Moravians greatly valued women's work and brainpower.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

One can see businessmen and women running down the escalators, most likely late for work, couples holding hands, others seemingly asleep as they wait to get off, listening to the music that blares from the loudspeakers overhead.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

And women are three times as likely as men to work in informal economies, and therefore abuse,sex trafficking and the absence of legal rights and protections for women are still unacceptably commonplace in so many places around the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Promise This-When You be Dying- Some shall summon Me- "And that way in which she says 'when you be dying', that's so classically the way African Americans structure their sentences, with that interesting use of 'be,'" "Maid as Muse" author Aife Murray says writing her book was a way for her to give credit where credit is due - to the unsung men and women whose language and culture enhanced the work of one of America's best-loved poets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22