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Unit 2. The Changing women.
Part 1. Warming up.
A. Keywords
women, rights, changes.
Vocabulary
draft, navigator, legislator.
You're going to hear some sentences which can give you a picture of the changes in women's status in America over the years. Listen carefully and fill the blanks with what you hear.
2. In the early 1900s, important changes occurred in the social and political climate in America as a result of World War I.
3. In 1920 after World War I, American women gained the right to vote.
4. During World War Ⅱ, large numbers of women entered the job market to do the jobs of the men who had been drafted into military service.
5. Today, women make up 1.5% of the 200,000 professional firefighters in the US, and they make up 4% of airline pilots and navigators.
6. The Small Business Administration predicts that women will own nearly 40%, others say half, of all small businesses in the US by the year 2000.
7. From 1980 to 1988, the number of business men and women, entrepreneurs, increased 56% overall, but during that period, the number of female entrepreneurs grew 82%.
8. In 1969 in the US, only 4% of the state lawmakers were women. By 1993, this number had grown by 500%, and 20.4% of state legislators were women.
9. Today, only 10% of American families have the traditional working father and the mother who stays home to take care of the children.
10. The rate of women's participation in the workforce rose from 27% in 1940 to 44% in 1985.
