"Equalpayforequalwork"isaphraseusedbytheAmericanwomen...

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"Equal pay for equal work" is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are unfairly treated by society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work.

People who hold the opposite view (mainly men) have an answer to this. They say that men have more responsibilities than women; a married man is expected to earn money to support his family and to make the important decisions, and therefore it is right for men to be paid more. There are some people who hold even strong views than this and are against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. If women are encouraged by equal pay to full-time jobs, they will be unable to do the things they are best at doing: making a comfortable home and bringing up children. They will have to give up their present position in society.

This is exactly what they want to give up, the women who disagree say. They want to escape the limited place which society expects them to fill, and to have freedom to choose between a career and home life or a mixture of the two. Women have the right not only to equal pay but also to equal opportunities.

These women have expressed their view forcefully by using the famous statement: "All men are created equal." They pointed out that the meaning of this sentence was "all human beings are created equal."

1. The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to demand that ______

A. men should be paid less than women

B. women's work should not be harder than men's

C. men and women should be paid the same amount of money for the same work

D. people doing harder work should earn more

2. People who disagree with the women's view believe that ______

A. women cannot make important decisions

B. men have to work much harder than women

C. men can earn money more easily than women

D. men's responsibilities are different from women's

3. What exactly do the women who disagree want to give up?

A. Their home life.                             B. Their present position in society.

C. Their career.                                        D. Their right to equal pay.

4. The women who disagree say that ______.

A. women need opportunities to go out of the house more often

B. women want more freedom in deciding the kind of life they live

C. women are no longer interested in taking care of their homes

D. if women are given equal pay, their opportunities will be greater

5. The women use the statement "all men are created equal" to show that ______.

A. in American society men and women should be equal

B. the position of women has changed a little in modern times

C. men and women had equal power in early American society

D. all men enjoy equal rights in American society

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