Unit5
Inside view
Conversation1
Andy: I loved the question you asked Tim Pearson about financial crisis.
Janet: Well, I shouldn’t have asked it. After all he is an expert!肩颈健身操视频
Andy: There you go again, you’re always putting yourlf down. You don’t know how to take a compliment（称赞，恭维）.
Janet: True. I never find it easy to accept prai. Do you think women have been conditioned to accept criticism（批评，指责）?
Andy: Well, I think that’s gender stereotyping（对...产生成见，模式化）. Do you think that men are good at accepting compliments?
Janet: Well, they em to be able to deal with criticism much better.
Andy:光饱和点 Don’t you believe it!
Janet: Anyway, thank you, I accept your compliment.
Andy: Not only that, but I think you’d make a really TV prenter.
Janet: I’m not so sure. I haven’t en many women in television here.
Andy: Well, in the media in general, I can assure（确保，使确信） you that there are lots of women in prenting and management roles.
Janet: Well, maybe, but I’m Chine as well. I don’t think I’ll be accepted as a prenter on a British TV programme.
工作动态怎么写Andy:拉野 Gender and racial stereotyping. I mean, it depends on what job and sometimes where you work in London, of cour, but generally, Londoners are proud of their multi-ethnic community. Especially the Chine, becau cook great food!
Janet: Now who’s doing the stereotyping! But riously, look at all the smart women w
alking to work. Are they all cretaries or managers?
Andy:小虾的做法>酿泉为酒 OK, it’s a good point. I think that many women manage to get middle management jobs in most professions. But it’s true that a lot of them talk about the glass ceiling.
Janet: What’s the glass ceiling?
Andy: It’s the situation where a woman is successful in a company, but then she hits the glass ceiling- this invisible（不可见的，隐形的） barrier which stops her going any higher in her career.
Conversation 2
Janet: So what do you think caus the glass ceiling?
如何做好一个店长Andy: It’s partly prejudice by men about women’s abilities in management. But it’s also when women take time off to have children; they don’t always recover the same power when they return to work.
Janet: It not fair.
Andy: You’re right, it’s not fair. I read here that only five to ten percent of the top companies in America and British are run by women.
Janet: That’s extraordinary! In China there appears to be more women in top jobs, but I may be wrong.
Andy: And look, here are some more statistics. About 60 percent of university graduations in Europe and North America are women. And something like 75 percent of the eight million new jobs in Europe have been filled by women.
Janet: So the percentage of women in the total workforce is growing.
Andy: You got it! But women in the UK are in a slight majority—there are more women than men.
Janet: Do you think it’s especially bad in the UK, and in London especially?
Andy:高血压吃什么 Not really. Some jobs which were traditionally done by women, like nursing, are now also done by men, and like engineering which are done by women. And there are plenty of women’s football teams!
Janet: Women’s football! We have women’s football in China too.
Andy: Mind you, their matches don’t get many spectators!
Janet: I give up. What el has changed?
Andy: I think fathers spend more quality time with their children today. But I bet you it’s still the women who spend most looking after the children and the home.
Janet: I guess that’s true everywhere.
Andy: Anyway, I am going home to watch the match on TV. The local women’s team, of cour.
Janet: It’s typical of you men! You always bring it back to football!
Andy: And that’s typical of you women! You always bring it back to gender stereotyping.
Outside View
In South Korea, women are participating more in the economic and political ctors than they were a decade ago. But career aspirations for female students in South Korea still tend to be bad on the traditional division of gender roles. They are accustomed to thinking of such jobs as teaching and nursing, what their male counterparts aim to become scientists and judges. Many of the young women are aware that if they want to be independent they need to train so they can have their own source of income. In the previous generation, women did not have the right to speak, becau they did not have their own financial support. Therefore, our generation of women must work to be financially independent. The growth in the number of women who work has caud the typical South Korean houhold to change. For example, there are more women living alone. This is becau they can make their own money rather than depend on a man to support them. There has also been a rapid ri in the number of families in which both pa
rents work. Married women increasingly want to participate in society but they need to balance family life and work. After marriage, we all struggle with how to take care of our children and work. The introduction of day care centers at some work places, such as the Chohung bank, has helped to make it possible for mothers to work. Whilst the women are at work, their children are in the day care center. There they are usually very well looked after, receiving a balanced diet, playing lots of games and doing plenty of exerci. Day care centers are increasingly popular all across the world becau they enable parents to work. Women employees at Chohung Bank find it a big help, although the system is far from perfect. So far, my children have been well taken care of by our day care center. However, it will be difficult when my children go to elementary school becau I often have to work late. Who will take care of them? Our family recently decided to live together with our grandparents who might be able to take care of my children. Mothers also face other problems when they go to work. Women have traditionally been responsible for raising their children and often feel a strong n of guilt when they put their children into day care. Some worry that it will have a negative im
pact on their children and that they may fail as a parent. On top of this, South Korean women often end up being less well paid than men with the same education. Korean women’s status in the labor market has not been much improved in spite of a continuing ri in their prence in the labor force and the level of their education. The majority of working women are still crowded in low wage and low status jobs many of which are found in the condary market. So there are still lots of issues facing women going to work--- they are still having to choo between their families and their careers. What can be done to ensure that women are rewarded for their valuable contribution to the working world?
