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1、Unit 2 The Changing Women Part 1 A.l. Organized activity on behalf of womens rights began 1800s, when both by law and by custom, women were nonpersons. 2. In the early 1900s, important changes occurred in the political climate in America as a result of World War I. 3. In 1920 after World War I, Amer
2、ican 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 the airline pilots a
3、nd 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 fema
4、le 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
5、children. 10. The rate of womens participation in the workforce rose from 27% in 1940 to 44% in 1985. B Tape scripts L-Lynne I-Irene B- Barbara L: I have many, many friends who have opted for a child-free life. I have a great deal of respect for their choice. But therein lies the key; It was their c
6、hoice. Infertility was not my choice. Is a woman less of a woman without children? Absolutely not in my opinion, but I had to have children. I dont know why. People have asked us, you know, well what was that just made you so obsessed and compelled and driven? I dont know. I dont . . . I dont know t
7、hat Ill ever know. All I know is I had to have children. I: Well, my daughter, interestingly enough, is the same way. Shes very eager as soon as she finishes law school to get married and have children. And we talked about this and she said, Mom, you dont understand. Ive been thinking about having c
8、hildren since I was eight or nine years old. B: Yes, thats how I was. I: Whereas I didnt, but shes been thinking about it for so long in her life, and I was really surprised when we had this conversation to learn that, that shes been observing me as a mother, observing other mothers, trying to decid
9、e what kind of a mother she was going to be when motherhood came her way.L: Well, thats . thats exactly how I have always felt. But I have to say that I certainly respect people who dont choose motherhood. C 1. The difference between men and women when they surf the Internet according to the study c
10、onducted by Media Matricks and Jupiter Communications:Women: as a toolMen: tend to spend more time playing around2. The different reasons why women use the web:check email / chat / look for information / resources / studying searchTape scripts For the first time ever the number of women on the web h
11、as surpassed the number of men, pushing the huge growth of females between the ages of 12 and 17. Music websites like are attracting teen girls and so are sites focused on fashion and shopping. An unscientific survey of teens, mostly girls attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, Califor
12、nia, shows teens are using the World Wide Web for many reasons. F: My name is Fi and Im 16. I check my email on the net and I chat sometimes. Thats all I did.P: My name is Sonia Fay Phillips. Im 1z years old. Mostly I use the Internet for, uh, look(ing) up for my college information or check my emai
13、l or chat. I use . . . mostly use it for resources and studying because I dont have time for play and stuff. M: My name is Lucien Morrison. Im 17. And I use the Internet to chat on, o get codes for Play Station games, to check my email and to play games on. M: Im Meesha. Im 14 years old. I usually j
14、ust search on the web, just anything Im looking for or just search because Im bored or anything like that Summer school students attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California. The Internet study released today conducted by Media Matrix and Jupiter Communications shows that men and w
15、omen use the web differently. Women use it as a tool. Men tend to spend more time online playing around. Among the other most popular sites reported for women on the web, for ages 35 to 44: and ; for ages 55 and up theyve been posting the second biggest jump in usage: aarp.org and Part II working
16、mothers A Tape scripts I-Ivy K-Kate (Ivy Miller interviews Kate Bellow about a program that retrains women for computer jobs. And why 2) I: Weve kind of gone over the range, but could you tell us who generally takes this program? You have 30 students, you get to know them, I guess , fairly well. K: I do.I: Who . . . who are th
