The majority of women are employed as top or medium level specialists.

In the eighties, the majority of uneducated adults were composed of women (about 75 ).

Statistics indicate that most of the Bedouin women who turn to higher academic education are unmarried.

Today the majority of women in Gaza wear the hijab however those who do not frequently face social pressure to do so.

A large majority of the world's one billion persons living in unacceptable conditions are women.

Women constitute the majority of single parents, only 1 of single parents are single fathers.

Even though the majority of HIV positives are men, the proportion of women has increased in the recent years.

In the Arab sector, the majority of men (81,200) in the labor force graduated after 11 12 years of schooling, compared to the majority of women (32,100), who graduated with 13 years or more of schooling.

However, the labor force comprehending men or women corresponds, in majority, informal workers (or non structured sector of society).

The preparedness of women is significantly higher than that of men because the majority of the measures would ensure them equal treatment with men on the labour market.

Noting that hundreds of millions of women worldwide live in poverty and that the majority of poor women throughout the world live in rural areas, where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence and smallholder agriculture,

HIV AIDS continues to ravage the lives of women and girls, who in most areas are infected and affected disproportionately to men.

A great majority of estates were left without a man so that women constitute the majority of the population.

Noting with grave concern that the majority of new HIV infections occur among young people and that women and girls are disproportionately affected by the pandemic,

Aware that women constitute the majority of older populations in all regions of the world and represent an important human resource, whose contribution to society has not been fully recognized,

The majority of women participating in the survey were of the opinion that sharing of household work should depend on the situation and not on traditions (80 ).

The majority of women hold the posts of attachés, third and second secretaries, whereas the number of female counsellors increased in 2003 and 2004.

Aware also that women constitute the majority of older populations in all regions of the world and represent an important human resource whose contribution to society has not been fully recognized,

Another factor to take into consideration is that the majority of women have their households depending exclusively from the earnings obtained from this type of activities.

Women accounted for the majority of victims (82 per cent), with females in the 10 19 year age group recording the highest victimization rate (497 per 100,000 population).

The presence of two thirds of the members of the Committee is, however, required for a decision to be taken.

Besides the health centres and dispensaries most women and men in the rural areas also rely on traditional healers for medical problems and a large number of births are attended by traditional birth attendants.

Access by many women from the rural areas is limited due to the perishable nature of most local food, the distance to markets, the unreliable shipping services and the huge cost of transportation.

Women continue to suffer discrimination their pay is between 30 and 60 per cent less than men, and they make up the majority of workers in the harsh conditions of the world's export processing zones.

As of December 2003, the majority of those eligible to both old age and survivors benefits were women 95 of the 76,597 eligible to these two benefits.

Most Colombians seem to support the peace process with caution.

Today, the majority of the population is of Romanian ethnicity.

The majority of its population is of Bantu origin.

It also identified that the under representation of women in most levels of Government and the inequitable representation of women in the public arena often started with the unequal power relations within the family.

Since most of those who operate handicraft stalls are women, this income compares favourably with other operators in the retail trade, manufacturing, transport and fishing.

Arabs have been the majority of Iraq's population since Sassanid times.

Most people do not initially need insulin.

The majority of survivors have long term effects from the treatment.

High fertility levels characterize the majority of the least developed countries.

Of these, 63 per cent of contributors (12,045) were males and 37 per cent (7,111) were women who dominated in the clerical occupations (Figure 11). In 2003 the rate of contributions from both employers and employees was four per cent each.

However the divorce rate is very low and there appears to be two reasons for this firstly, the majority of women continue to be dependent on their husband and fear the repayment of bride price despite their husband committing adultery.

In 2003, most of the women (83.9 ) were seeking employment through newspaper advertisements, while most of the men (82.5 ) were assisted by friends.

The majority of the community and its institutions must be enthusiastic.

Jihadi fighters connected to Al Qaeda are now in the majority.

That is also the answer of a large majority in the US and in Europe.

The majority of Setswana speaking people today live in South Africa.

In the first two votes, a ⅔ majority (200 votes) is necessary.

Although we have successfully brought the population growth rate down, the task is only half complete.

In 2003, 21,220 applications terminate pregnancies were submitted to the Commission for Pregnancy Terminations, 20,835 (98.1 ) approvals were given and 20,069 (94.5 ) actually occurred. As of 2002, the majority of applicants to the Commission are single women (previously it was mostly married women).

Most of those to whom I spoke were poor and without hope for the future.