UNIT 2. WOMEN Ls 1 GENDER EQUALITY BEFORE WE START Answer the following questions: > > > What comes to your mind when you hear the words “gender equality”? Do you think men and women have different brains? ‘What would you like to do that you can’t do now if you changed gender? Now listen: The best things about being a woman or a man: http://www.eltbase.com/vtr_refs.phy 6 THE WORDS YOU NEED Work in groups. Look these words up in the dictionary and write their meaning. You may use online or paper dictionaries. male: in spite of: female: deny (verb): inequity: land: imbalance: property: PRONUNCIATION Audio 7. Listen to the pronunciation of the following words: male [mel] in spite of [spait] female ['fi mell] deny [dh'nal] inequity [in'ek wi ti]READING Read the following text and say if the statements bellow are true (1) of false (F). What does “gender equality” really mean? While a person's sex refers to the biological differences between a male and a female, gender distinguishes the roles a person's community considers appropriate for women and men. Therefore, gender roles, inequities, and power imbalances are not a “natural” result of biological differences, but are determined by the systems and cultures in which we live. In spite of the fact that there are international laws guaranteeing women equal rights with men, women in many places around the world are denied their rights to land and property, financial resources, employment, and education. Source:http:/ /teachunicef.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/documents/gender_equality_activity _sheet_final.pdf 1. Gender equality has to do with the person's sex rather than with the roles of women and men. 2. Gender equality is the result of the systems and cultures where women and men live. 3. Allthe women around the world may buy land and property and have access to financial resources, employment and education. BEFORE WE START Match these words with the pictures bellow. 1, Rwanda 4. Seat 2. Female politician 5. Freshness 3. Election 6. Glass ceilingTHE WORDS YOU NEED Work in pairs. Match each word to its definition. outnumber 8. head 15. strengthen huge 9, state (verb) 16. look after genocide 10. encourage 17. pride proudly 11. be fed up with 18. glass ceiling beacon 12. praise 19. enlighten ruling 13. voter 20. backward seat 14, landscape a s) p) person in charge of others; chief the deliberate and systematic killing or murdering of a national, racial, political, or cultural group to be annoyed, discontented or bored behind in time, progress, or development to be greater than in number to stimulate, inspire someone to do something scene pleased or satisfied, as with oneself, one’s possessions, achievements, etc., or with another person, his or her achievements, qualities, etc. a right to sit as a member, as in a legislative or financial body to express admiration extraordinarily large in size, weight, quantity, or area governing to make or become stronger person or thing that serves as a guide, inspiration, or warning to give intellectual understanding or knowledge to; instruct the state or quality of being properly proud about something good that one has or has done; self-respect to declare or say, as in speech or writing take care of ‘an unacknowledged barrier to advancing to the highest positions in a profession, especially as imposed upon women someone who has a right to vote; elector.