Women’s roles have changed throughout the world in recent years, but nowhere so obviously as in America. In many American homes today, it is more and more common to find that the children are left in day-care centers or nursery schools while both parents work. The woman may earn as much or more money than her husband. At home, household duties are shared in varying degrees by all family members. It is not unusual to find father cooking dinner, cleaning the living room or charging the baby. Mother might be outside mowing the lawn or washing the car. Children have responsibilities, too. One of the goals of the Women’s Liberation Movement has been to have both men and women share in childcare, housework and financial responsibility. Today many American women will not marry a man who is not willing to participate equally in household responsibilities.
The high cost of living has made it necessary for many women to have jobs outside the home, but women often choose
A. in nurseries
B. in day-care centers
C. at home
D. at school
In a family where the roles of women and men are not sharply separated, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this (1) leads to further sharing. In such a home, the (2) boy and girl learn to (3) the equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for (4) in a world characterized by cooperation (5) by the "battle of the sexes".
(6) the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as (7) important and that has happened in some eases-we are badly off as before, only (8) reverse.
It is time to (9) the role of the American family. We are getting tired of "Momism" but we don’t want to (10) it for a "neo-Popism". What we need, rather, is (11) that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that expe
A. revalue
B. reassess
C. reassume
D. re-examine
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