Commission on the Status of Women
- noun
- Formal
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Comisión sobre el Estatus de la Mujer
Examples
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I chair the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls here in the state of Massachusetts.
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This month, the ABA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, now led by Chicago attorney Laurel Bellows, is releasing a report on how women lawyers have fared since the initial hearings.
Academic text (1995) -
That was the gloomy message of the 1988 hearings and report of the ABA Commission on the Status of Women Lawyers, chaired by an Arkansan named Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Academic text (1995) -
I chair the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls here in the state of Massachusetts.
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Last Friday at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York, Bread for the World and the Presbyterian Office at the United Nations co-sponsored a side event called 1,000 Days: Improving Nutrition for Rural Women.
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Fourteen years ago, the San Mateo County Commission on the Status of Women decided to change that.
Surface Forms
Morphology
commission + on + the + status + of + woman
The phrase is compositionally built from 'commission' (a formal committee) + 'on the status of women' (the topical domain), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it denotes a committee dealing with women's status and related issues. They may not deduce the specific UN affiliation or global remit, but the core meaning is directly derivable and follows common cross-linguistic patterns for topic-headed noun phrases.
Etymology
Commission on the Status of Women gets its name from how the United Nations makes special groups. The word commission means a group set up to look at a topic, status means the 'position' or 'rights' of people, and women is who they study, so the name says the group's job is to check and help improve women's rights and equality around the world.
