U校园新视野大学英语4读写教程答案（Unit 6 Gender equality）.docxVIP

U校园新视野大学英语4读写教程答案 Unit 6 Gender equality Section A 6-2 Text A: The weight men carry Pre-reading activities Pre-reading activities-1 1) Their place is in the home. (OR: A womans place is in the home.) 2) The importance of equality in the home. 3) The pattern of sharing in tasks and decisions. 4) They will accept gender equality more easily and be better prepared for a world characterized by cooperation between the two genders. Pre-reading activities-2 1) Yes, I agree with this view. Women are different from men physiologically, so I do think to be a full-time housewife is a proper and respectable job for women. Childcare and housework are important for a family and for the whole society. With the wife staying at home to take care of the household, the husband can be more devoted to his work and support the family financially. No, I disagree with this view. I think that women and men should share responsibilities in the home and that women should have the same right to work as men. Men and women today have equal opportunities of education, so they are capable of doing the same work. This has been proved by the fact that there are a large number of successful female scientists, teachers, engineers and managers in the modern world. Although there are indeed certain jobs more suitable for one sex than for the other, I would say there is no major difference in most fields. 2) The distribution of gender roles in my family is part traditional and part modern. It is traditional in the sense that my mom does most of the housework, such as cooking and laundry. It is meanwhile modern since both my parents have their own career. I feel my parents have equal rights and responsibilities at home. My father earns a higher salary than my mother does, and hence he takes more financial responsibilities. My mother, however, contributes more time to housework although she earns less money. In addition, sometimes my father helps out with the housework too if my mother is too busy. Reading