文档介绍：Unit 6
Towards a Gender Free Society
Purposes
To get students have some knowledge about the roles of men and women at present and in the past.
To understand the purpose of writing anization of the text.
To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises.
Quotations:
One is not born a woman, one es one.
There is no female mind. The brain is not an of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.
Women are no less capable, intelligent, logical, reasonable, responsible, etc. than men.
The distinction we draw between men and women is largely arbitrary/irrational/irrelevant/without good reason/based only on women’s biological functions.
It’s the natural function of women to bear children and to feed them at infancy.
In the old days, the role of married women was to assist their husbands and bring up children/to wait upon their husbands and parents-in-law/to cook for the family/to do all the housework.
Women were traditionally encouraged to develop tender thoughts and sentimental feelings/to rely on intuition and instinct to arrive at decisions/to be modest and obedient.
Women were discouraged from developing rationality and reasoning.
After a long, bitter struggle, women now enjoy the right to vote/have the same educational opportunities as men in most parts of the world.
There are no laws preventing women in many countries from voting/from being elected/from pursuing a career/from ing a professional.
On the surface, women in most countries have the free choice to either stay at home or enter a profession.
Prejudice against women still exists. Even in the most progressive societies, women continue to be regarded as second-rate citizens.
It may be personally fulfilling and socially valuable for women to take care of home and family. The same holds true for men.
Compared with their colleagues, career women have to s