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Language. 2. Practise reading the following words correctly2. Practise reading the following words correctly. If necessary, use the dictionary. Gender, stereotypes, identity, equity, corporate, opportunities, sexual harassment, parenthood, paternity, maternity, flexible, prejudice, mascu- line, consensus, alimony, minority, female, psychology, harass, freelan- cers, chauvinism, scheme. 2. Working in pairs, discuss the meaning of the underlined words. 1. Where women do get to run big companies, it is not by climbing the ordinary corporate ladder. 2. Men are expected to be assertive. 3. Made to choose between being thought pushy and being actually self-effacing, women tend to choose the latter. 4. Strident counter-examples … leap to mind just because they are so rare. 5. Women’s employment is much like the environment – it’s seen as essentially a window-dressing question. Tokenism abounds. 6. The watershed diving different employers’ ap- proaches is positive discrimination. 7. And back-of-the-envelope calcu- lation of the costs of replacing a manager … suggest that the time it takes the new manager to get fully on top of the job is worth $25,000. 3. Study the following pairs of sentences, paying particular attention to the type of conditional used (first, second, third or mixed). How does the second sentence in each pair differ in meaning from the first?
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4. Complete the sentences below using appropriate forms of the following modal verbs: would; should; could; need; have to; to be able to; must. Note: Some sentences will require negative forms. 1. It is recommended by the committee that women... be given lon- ger vacations. 2. At the end of the pilot scheme, many of the women... get jobs in the companies to which they were attached. 3. We worded our advertisement carefully to avoid accusations of discrimination, but we ... bothered because no women applied for the job. They... been very impressed by the employment terms we offered. 4. Some of our direc- tors think we... appointed a woman to the board years ago. If we had done so, we... avoided the trouble we’re now having with female staff. 5.... you wish to study this legislation, you can buy copies of the act at government bookstores. 6. To enter certain parts of pubs in Canada, a woman... be accompanied by a male. If she made an attempt to go in, the proprietor... immediately ask her to leave. 7. It has been proposed that non-working wives … be paid a salary by the government to com- pensate them for their housekeeping responsibilities. 8. Progress towards equal rights has been slower in Britain than in Sweden. It... be that Brit- ish people are conservative, and therefore they... make quick changes in attitude. 9. When we were young, we... joke with our sister about her boyish looks, but there’s nothing boyish about her now! 10. Our com- pany... taken on many more females last year, but few women seemed interested in working for us. 11. To become qualified as a doctor, you... study for many years. 12. The law in our country … changing. It... be illegal for an employee to dismiss a woman who is pregnant. 13. If only people... realize how unfair it is for a woman to be paid less for equal work. 14. The employment office has urged that more women... be in- terviewed for factory jobs. 15. A woman has been appointed to the Chief Accountant’s position. She... convinced the interview team she... do the job successfully. 115
5. This exercise gives you practice in using adverbs correctly. For each blank space, supply an appropriate adverb selected from the list below. (Use an adverb more than once if you wish.)
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