Unit 15: Part A - Reading

Part A: reading – (
Period: 91)
Class: 12A8
Teacher: Bui Duc Tien
School: Tinh Gia 3 Upper Secondary School
Unit 15: Women In Society

The roles
of women
today
Working in
the offices
Taking care of
their families
and doing the
housework




Human civilization (n)
Eg: Human civilization has taken thousands of years

Homemaking (n)
Eg: Women are always busy with the homemaking

The age of
enlightenment (n)
Eg: The 18
th

century
is known as the
age
of enlightenment


Childbearing (n)
Eg:
She is at the age of
childbearing.

Political philosopher (n)
Eg: He works as a
Political philosopher.

Equal work opportunity (n)
Eg: Women and men have an equal work opportunity


Intellectual
ability (n)
Eg: Women’s intellectual ability is similar to men’s.

1. Human civilization
2. Homemaking
3. The age of
enlightenment
4. Childbearing
5. Political
philosopher

6. Equal work
opportunity
7. Intellectual ability
a. Triết gia chính trị
b. Sự Sinh đẻ
d. Thời đại khai
sáng
e. cơ hội việc làm
công bằng
f. Khả năng trí tuệ
g. Việc nhà
c. Nền văn minh
loài ng ời


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A. Working in
education
B. Building houses
1. According to the text , what was the main
role traditionally accorded to women?
C. Taking care of the
house and family
D. Working in
factories

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A. respectful
B. supportive
2. Before the 18

th
century what was the attitude of
societies towards women’s intellectual ability?
c. resentful
D. disbelieving

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A. To free women
from housework
B. To establish a friendly
relationship between men and
women
3. According to the text , what is the purpose of
the struggle for women’s right?
C. To bring equality
between men and women
D. To argue that women have
better intellectual ability

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A. 18
th
century
European people
4. What do “ these pioneer thinkers” at the end
of paragraph 2 refer to?
B. 18th century European
political philosophers
B. 18th century
European women

D. 18th century European
politicians

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A. The right to hold
property
B. The right to equal
pay
5. Which of following is not mentioned in the
last paragraph as one of women’s legal rights
today?
B. Equal
employment
opportunity rights
D. The right to
vote

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A. women’ s
intellectual ability
B. The age of
enlightenment
6. Choose the best title for the passage
C. Women’ s rights
D. Women’ s roles
in education



Throughout much of the history of human

Throughout much of the history of human
civilization, deep-seated cultural beliefs
civilization, deep-seated cultural beliefs
allowed women only limited roles in society.
allowed women only limited roles in society.


Many people believed that women’s natural
Many people believed that women’s natural
roles were as mothers and wives. These
roles were as mothers and wives. These
people considered women to be better suited
people considered women to be better suited
for childbearing and homemaking rather
for childbearing and homemaking rather
than for involvement in the public life of
than for involvement in the public life of
business or politics.
business or politics.


Widespread doubt about
Widespread doubt about
women’s intellectual ability let most
women’s intellectual ability let most
societies to deny education, employment and
societies to deny education, employment and
many legal and political rights to women.
many legal and political rights to women.

It
It
was men who controlled most positions of
was men who controlled most positions of
employment and power in society
employment and power in society
.
.



The struggle for women s rights ’ –
The struggle for women s rights ’ –
the
the
rights that establish the same social,
rights that establish the same social,
economic, and political status for women
economic, and political status for women
as for men
as for men
–
–
began in the 18
began in the 18
th
th
century
century

during a period known as the Age of
during a period known as the Age of
Enlightenment.
Enlightenment.


During this period,
During this period,
political philosophers in Europe
political philosophers in Europe


began to
began to
argue that all individuals, male and
argue that all individuals, male and
female, were born with natural rights that
female, were born with natural rights that
made them free and equal
made them free and equal
.
.
These pioneer
These pioneer
thinkers
thinkers
advocated that women should
advocated that women should
not be discriminated against on the basis
not be discriminated against on the basis

of their sex.
of their sex.



Today, although their status varies in
Today, although their status varies in
different countries, women in most
different countries, women in most
parts of the world have gained
parts of the world have gained
significant legal rights. The most
significant legal rights. The most
important of these are
important of these are
:
:


the
the
right to have equal work
right to have equal work
opportunities and pay to men, the
opportunities and pay to men, the
right to vote, and the right to formal
right to vote, and the right to formal
education.
education.