Step by Step 3000. Book Four.

Unit 2. The Changing women.

Part 1. Warming up.

A. Keywords. women, rights, changes. Vocabulary. draft, navigator, legislator.

You're going to hear some sentences which can give you a picture of the changes in women's status in America over the years. Listen carefully and fill the blanks with what you hear.

1. Organized activity on behalf of women's rights began in the middle 1800s, when both by law and by custom, women were considered " non-persons" .

2. In the early 1900s, important changes occurred in the social and political climate in America as a result of World War I.

3. In 1920 after World War I, American women gained the right to vote.

4. During World War Ⅱ, large numbers of women entered the job market to do the jobs of the men who had been drafted into military service.

5. Today, women make up 1.5% of the 200,000 professional firefighters in the US, and they make up 4% of airline pilots and navigators.