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  • 1: A World of English
    • Where Do I Come From?
    • Becoming a Strategic Reader
    • Global English
    • Do You Speak Norwenglish?
    • Mari, Mariken and Magnus: Going Abroad
    • Reading Literature
    • Raising the Mango
    • Revision: Chapter 1
  • 2: Life and Society: North America
    • Q&A: Myths and Facts about the USA
    • Two Sides of the American Dream
    • Becoming a Strategic Listener
    • Issues in American Society
    • The Hunger Games
    • Detroit and Silicon Valley
    • No Speak English
    • Black and White
    • Canada: A Country of Contrasts
    • Revision: Chapter 2
  • 3: Work Matters
    • English at Work
    • What I Do for a Living
    • Finding a Job
    • Tricks of the Trade
    • Landing in the North
    • What's Gone Wrong?
    • Revision: Chapter 3
  • 4: Life and Society:The British Isles
    • Teens in the UK
    • I Am the Secret Footballer
    • Reading Poetry / Connected
    • Dora
    • Dying for Dreadlocks
    • British Festivals
    • Coping with Bad Times
    • Who Are the Irish?
    • Tommy from Dublin
    • The Sniper
    • Revision: Chapter 4
  • 5: Life and Society: The English-Speaking World
    • From British Empire to Commonwealth
    • Bollywood: The Global Cinema
    • Transmission
    • Extreme Sports in New Zealand
    • The All Blacks
    • Australian National Holidays
    • Does My Head Look Big in This?
    • My Country
    • South Africa Has It All!
    • The Ten Things ...
    • Revision: Chapter 5
  • 6: Work Values
    • The Little Red Hen
    • Work Ethics
    • Gender Roles in Working Life
    • Getting the Right Job
    • Child Labour
    • Safety at the Workplace
    • Health, Environment and Safety
    • Revision: Chapter 6
  • 7: We Were Here First
    • The First Australians / Son of Mine
    • Ta Moko / Butterflies
    • The Story of the Native Americans / Sure You Can ...
    • Revision: Chapter 7
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    • Pronouns
    • Verbs: Concord
    • Verbs: Past and perfect tense
    • Verbs: Present progressive
    • Verbs: Revision
    • Do-support / Did-support
    • Tag questions
    • Wh-questions
    • Modal verbs
    • Word order
    • Joining sentences
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Gender Roles in Working Life

Are some jobs more suited for boys, and some more suited for girls? Or is this an old-fashioned belief? In your textbook there is a  blog text about this, as well as various comments made by readers of the blog.

The tasks in the book invite you to give your opinion on gender roles. There are also tasks below.

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Textbook Tasks

  • Quiz: Gender Roles in Working Life
  • Vocabulary - match up synonyms
  • Memory game
  • Jumbled comments
  • Gap text

Extra Tasks

  • Match up tools and jobs
  • Vocabulary - political correctness
  • Working with gender facts and statistics
  • Text study: "I love my job!"
  • Australian men's hobby parenting

Listening

  • Gender Roles in Working Life
  • Need I Change My Name?

Visual Material

  • Animation: Women's rights

Going Further

  • Web teaser: Need I Change My Name?
  • Shortcut: Need I Change My Name?
  • Worksheet: Need I Change My Name? (PDF)
    367 KB Last ned

Links

  • UK has one of worst records for gender equality at work (Guardian)

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/18/uk-has-one-of-worst-records-for-gender-equality-at-work-report
    (theguardian.com)
  • Gender Inequality and Women in the US Labor Force (ILO)

    http://www.ilo.org/washington/areas/gender-equality-in-the-workplace/WCMS_159496/lang--en/index.htm
    (ilo.org)
  • Gender Roles Change at Work and Home

    http://workingmoms.about.com/od/workingmomsresearch/a/GenderRoles.htm
    (workingmoms.about.com)
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