As well as unless on the other hand. Example: We shall go out

Example: We shall go out. It may rain.

We shall go out despite the rain.

1. We employ experienced personnel. We do not care which sex they

are. 2. Juanita Kreps is an attractive woman. She is also very intelligent.

3. Women frequently reach top management positions. They do not get

much encouragement from men. 4. I have no objection to working un-

der a woman boss. She must, however, be good at her job. 5. We must

reword this job advertisement. We may be accused of discriminating

against women. 6. She is brilliant at her job. She is very young and inex-

perienced. 7. This board of directors shows no concern for the problems

of its male workers. It seems to be unaware female workers exist. 8. She

is highly emotional. We need more spirit and passion on our board since

most of the members are almost senile. 9. Our company shows no in-

terest in promoting women. They are not even keen to employ them.

10. Some people do not appear to work very hard. They earn a lot of

money. 11. The USA is a country where women directors are common.

Saudi Arabia is a country where they are rare. 12. We would not normal-

ly appoint a woman to the board. She would have to possess specialist

knowledge of some management function

8. Define the meaning of these words and phrases and givethe Russian

equivalents to the following:

Job-market treadmill; to lose ground; municipal workers; to have

a long way to go; underemployment rate; part-time workers; free day

care; earnings gap; clerical and service work; tax revenues; unemploy-

ment benefits; an аfter-school program; tuition-free University; in-

house personnel, to outsource, freelancers, date rape, paternity leave,

alimony, feminists, glass ceiling, sexual harassment, pay, equity, gender

stereotypes, sex discrimination, prejudice, lateral thinking, gender roles,

comparable worth.

9.* Paraphrase the italicized words and phrases.

1. Women have come a country mile since the days when the job world

was an all-male preserve. 2. It’s the old sad story of women being the last

to be hired and the first to be fired. 3. Throughout the country, unemploy-

ment and underemployment are dramatically higher for women than for

men. 4. Incredibly, women college graduates earn less than men who

have not finished high school. 5. Women work because they are heads of

households. 6. They need and deserve well-paying and meaningful jobs.

7. We will be making use of valuable talent presently going to waste.

10. A. Make the following words negative. Use prefixes un-, in-, mis-,

dis-, ir-, and so forth.

Sensitive, equal, justified, justice, valid, valuable, tenable, action,

sufficient, printable, satisfied, decided, fair, cooked, written, smoker,

legal, significant, regular, moral, printed, obey.

B. Give the opposite meaning to each word. Make up your own sentence

with each word.

Inside, increase, employed, traditional, experienced, approve, agree-

ment, typical, ground, normal, thought, hope, heart, up-to-date, pro-

moted, visible, logical, able, lead, load, count, deed, direct, deal.

C. Make a compound word in each sentence by adding one of the words

given below. Do not use a word more than once.