Key Vocabulary List. manufacturing sector, service sector; male- (female-) dominated sector, to be dominated bylabour (job) market manufacturing sector, service sector; male- (female-) dominated sector, to be dominated by a shift from the manufacturing to the service sector composition of labour force flexible, flexible working hours, to work flexitime/flextime; versatile to work part time/full time; to be in full time/part time work; to be employed full time/part time, to have a nine-to-five job, clerical work to telecommute, telecommuting; telecommuter, teleworker, teleworking, telecottage communication skills to discriminate, to discriminate on the grounds of sex, age and ethnic origin, to face discrimination, to be discriminated against, racial discrimination, sexism, ageism sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, to be sexually harassed It is unlawful to discriminate between men and women in pay and other terms. to rank lower in pay and status to reach pay and status parity with men to outnumber smb to reverse roles the right to equal pay for equal work the EOC (Equal Opportunities Commission) Arbitration (industrial) tribunal grievance, to bring/take one’s grievance to a tribunal, to claim to an industrial tribunal to lodge/make a complaint, to take action over alleged discrimination to make a ruling, to rule in smb’s favour, to arbitrate, arbitration hearing, to settle a grievance in an arbitration hearing golden muzzle to be turned down for a post/ a job to hold a job to go on a training course to close down a plant (industries, a factory, etc.) to make up two-thirds of employees to assert oneself, to assume responsibility to take a maternity/paternity leave to change diapers to share children’s upbringing, to gain custody of children in divorces to move up the ladder to gain a footing in nearly every occupation one-to-one tuition Text A
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