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From the Ted Talk by Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can we all "have it all"?

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The same-sex ppsiretevce helps us see that juggling work and family are not women's problems, they're family problems. And Sarah and Emily are the lucky ones, because they have a choice about how much they want to work. Millions of men and women have to be both breadwinners and caregivers just to earn the imcnoe they need, and many of those wokrres are scrambling. They're patching together care arrangements that are inadequate and often actually unsafe. If breadwinning and caregiving are really equal, then why shouldn't a government invest as much in an iacrrutftnurse of care as the foundation of a hltahey society as it invests in physical infrastructure as the backbone of a succusesfl economy?

Open Cloze


The same-sex ___________ helps us see that juggling work and family are not women's problems, they're family problems. And Sarah and Emily are the lucky ones, because they have a choice about how much they want to work. Millions of men and women have to be both breadwinners and caregivers just to earn the ______ they need, and many of those _______ are scrambling. They're patching together care arrangements that are inadequate and often actually unsafe. If breadwinning and caregiving are really equal, then why shouldn't a government invest as much in an ______________ of care as the foundation of a _______ society as it invests in physical infrastructure as the backbone of a __________ economy?

Solution


  1. workers
  2. successful
  3. income
  4. infrastructure
  5. perspective
  6. healthy

Original Text


The same-sex perspective helps us see that juggling work and family are not women's problems, they're family problems. And Sarah and Emily are the lucky ones, because they have a choice about how much they want to work. Millions of men and women have to be both breadwinners and caregivers just to earn the income they need, and many of those workers are scrambling. They're patching together care arrangements that are inadequate and often actually unsafe. If breadwinning and caregiving are really equal, then why shouldn't a government invest as much in an infrastructure of care as the foundation of a healthy society as it invests in physical infrastructure as the backbone of a successful economy?

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real equality 2
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feminist revolution 2
work force 2
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Important Words


  1. arrangements
  2. backbone
  3. breadwinners
  4. breadwinning
  5. care
  6. caregivers
  7. caregiving
  8. choice
  9. earn
  10. economy
  11. emily
  12. equal
  13. family
  14. foundation
  15. government
  16. healthy
  17. helps
  18. inadequate
  19. income
  20. infrastructure
  21. invest
  22. invests
  23. juggling
  24. lucky
  25. men
  26. millions
  27. patching
  28. perspective
  29. physical
  30. problems
  31. sarah
  32. scrambling
  33. society
  34. successful
  35. unsafe
  36. women
  37. work
  38. workers