Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on proceeds at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly and chat and to everyone’s satisfaction.
For a man, slight problems many begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else—he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good sales
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
"Equality between women and men is no longer a negotiable issue." These are strong words of Gertrude Mongella of Tanzania, the Secretary General of the Beijing Women’s Conference. She says equality is at the center of everything which touches women worldwide.
In many societies women are invisible. They grow the crops, bring up the children, take care of the home, sell food they produce in their gardens and work in the informal sector — that sector, which doesn’t get counted when a country’s Gross Domestic Product is calculated. Poor women living on the margin of society, refugee women and migrant women are usually more vulnerable than men in the same circumstances. So unless their special needs are recognized and addressed, many of the world’s women will continue to be on the bottom, worker ants toiling in appalling conditions.
Education is a major need for woman and girls. Today, in spite of repeated calls at international
A. nothing could be done successfully without the participation of women
B. everybody has come to realize the importance of the equality between women and men
C. in most areas of society women can do far better jobs than men
D. much still remains to be known about the role of women in the modern society
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