Women's lib?
We've been hearing a lot about “women’s lib” in the last few years. Women, we’ve been told, want freedom. They want better jobs, more pay, less time at home with their children. They think that women should have the same chances as men. All this has made some men nervous. “There are too much many women in charge already,” they say. “And anyway, a woman’s place is in the home.” Do Britain women have the same rights as British men? Do they have more freedom and more power than they did ten years ago? Are women getting better jobs and better pay? What are the facts? In the world of work, things have not changed much in the last ten years. Forty per cent of jobs are done by women, but only twenty-five per cent are done by carried women. And the jobs that women of are the worst paid and the least interesting. The average pay for women is much less than the average pay for men. In public life, too, things are not very different. True, Britain has had woman Prime Minister, but only 25 out of 650 Members of Parliament are women. There are very few women in the top business jobs, or in the most important jobs in the civil service. And the few women at the top often have problems with jealous fellow-workers. On the other hand, some things have been changing. Men seem to be more interested in their homes and their children these days. Perhaps father’s interest starts at birth. Probably ninety-five per sent o f British fathers now watch their babies being born. Twenty years ago, most fathers would not push a baby's pram around the streets or change a baby's clothes. They thought it was "silly", or "unmanly". Now, most fathers are happy to take the baby out, and many will spend much longer playing with and locking after their children. What about housework? Does the modern British man work in the kitchen, or go round with the vacuum cleaner, or hang up the washing to dry? Not very often, is the answer. Most men are happy to pour out the drinks when guests visit, or sometimes wash up after a meal. But women still do nearly all the work at home, even when they have a full-time job. Men don’ t really need to worry about “women’s lib” after all. Hot yet, anyway...
TEXT 7
Read the article from the magazine “Time” and make its analisys according to the scheme below: a) state the topic b) b) state the main idea c) find rhemes to support the main idea d) give a summary using the chosen rhemes e) state what conclusion the author makes f) state if you agree to the author’s conclusion
LIFTING THE VEIL
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