Task 1: Watch the video clip and discuss some questions:
Q1. What are the main difficulties women may face in the workplace?
Q2. If you’re given a choice, would you choose a male or female boss? Why?
Task 2: Watch the video clip and answer the following queston:
What's the difference between Chinese fatherhood and that of other countries?
The gender roles at home are changing in recent years. Watch the material about it and try to write down some key information.
Listen to a short passage concerning woman’s place in society and fill in the missing information.
Researchers have done some 1.______________ into what young people believe is a woman’s place in society. Here is a report on some of their findings.
The Chinese are 2.__________supporters of sex equality with only 12% of young people 3.__________ that a woman’s place is in the home. 93% are enthusiastic about4.____________ the housework and 85% of them believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same job.
80% think that nursing is a woman’s job and 90% of them believe that mining is only men’s job. 13% of Chinese, an extremely low percentage, believe cooking is 5.________ a woman’s job and 7% , even fewer, think that only she should do the 6.____________.
80% of Koreans believe men and women should get the same pay for the same job. 39% believe a woman’s place is in the home. 75% of them believe that housework should be shared between men and women if both work, but there’s almost a complete reversal when it comes to doing the washing and 7.________.
Here, very few believe in sharing the work. 62% and 65% 8._____________ believe that women should do both. 85% of Koreans believe nursing is a woman’s job and 87% think mining is a man’s job.
