- •Section 1 Mass media
- •Activity 1. Vocabulary expansion. Familiarize yourself with the words and word-combinations and compose sentences of your own. The news: gathering and delivering Gathering the news
- •Delivering the news
- •Activity 2. Vocabulary expansion. Familiarize yourself with the words and word-combinations and compose sentences of your own. The media: print
- •History of the media
- •Activity 4. Read the text and do the assignments suggested. How news gets around
- •Newsworthiness
- •Language in the news.
- •Newspaper headlines
- •India seeks us aid
- •Что значит быть журналистом?
- •Journalists under fire
- •Порноиндустрия.
- •Section 2 Crime and punishment
- •Vocabulary expansion. Familiarize yourself with the words and word-combinations and compose sentences of your own.
- •Органы правопорядка. Почему они необходимы?
- •A woman’s right to self-defense.
- •Methods of Death.
- •Lethal injection
- •Gas chamber
- •Hanging
- •Electrocution
- •Firing Squad
- •Факторы риска и тревожные сигналы.
- •Section 3 Woman and contemporary society.
- •What do the women want?
- •Activity 2. Read and discuss the text. Что обещает феминизм
- •Gender stereotypes or "Keep silence, woman, your day is 8 of March!"
- •Чого хоче українська жінка?
- •What is democracy without women?
- •Activity 6. Talk about the situation with gender equality in Muslim countries.
- •Жінка в Україні: особистість чи річ?
- •Activity 9. Render the article and discuss the burden issues, presented in it, in class. Імпортуватимемо чоловіків?
- •More young fathers choose family time, not overtime.
- •Activity 11. Read the text and do the assignments suggested. Horror films warn of sex trade.
- •Наскільки непривабливе сексуальне рабство?
- •Сексуальные домогательства как вид дискриминации.
- •Language and gender.
- •Men and women are from different planets
- •Section 4 Work, unemployment, welfare
- •The job interview
- •Identifying your interests
- •Professional qualities.
- •Where and how to find an employee?
- •Activity 8. Read the article, render it and discuss the most burning issues involved. Від безробіття може врятувати лише робота.
- •Мы живем, чтобы работать, или живем, чтобы жить?
- •Bibliography list
More young fathers choose family time, not overtime.
When his daughter was born Jonatan Kron didn’t have to think too hard about quitting his job to look after his baby full time. His wife had a better-paying job than he did, and Mr. Kron wasn’t especially fond of the one he had. Now, after six years as a full-time dad and a part-time writer he says he would never return to a 40-hour office job, while some day-care worker gets to watch his children.
“I didn’t want to be the stereotype of the working father, where you see your kid for breakfast and a half an hour at night, and then you cram 89 culturally enriching experiences into the weekend.”
Young fathers like Kron are the avant-garde of a growing force in the 21st-century American force. Unwilling to be defined by their job and intrigued by the rhythms of a friendly schedule, 20- and 30-something young makes are more and more choosing family as their top priority.
This change in attitude is driven as much by the flexibility of high-tech telecommuting as it is by the hard-won battles of the women’s movement. It’s attitude that is slowly changing the ways that US companies were less desperate for workers.
“There is a growing minority of men who are saying, ‘There is more to my life than my work,’” says Rob Okun, who teaches a class for young fathers. “We’re still far from parity with women in terms of equalizing parental responsibilities, but a tremendous shift is starting to happen.”
A quick glance at popular culture shows that society’s view of a father’s role is changing dramatically. Full-time dads have their own TV sitcom and their own comic strip. According to a new study nearly four-fifths of men aged 21 to 39 say that having a work schedule that allows for time with family is the most important goal in their lives. Some 71 percent of these men said that rewarding work was very important. For those 50 and above, 86 percent say that enjoyable coworker relationships were very important. “Attitudes are in flux”, says Leslie Cinton, project manager of the Radcliff study, Not only are women having more opportunities to compete with men in the workplace, but young men are having opportunities to nurture.
While some young men are actually quitting their jobs or taking long leaves of absence to become full-time dads, others are sharing parental roles in different ways, either by paring back their work schedules or taking on a greater share of the household chores.
Matt Hollon, for instance, used to work crazy hours before the birth of his son, Sam, 7-1/2 months ago. But now he has cut his schedule back to only 30 hours a week. In addition, he works from an office just around the corner from his house, and walks home for lunch every day.
“I’m not one of those 15-minute-a-day dads,” says Mr.Hollon, who has gotten to see Sam’s latest trick: learning to crawl. “I think some of this is changing because it wasn’t working for our parents. My dad was a workaholic, and I very consciously did not want to repeat that model.’ He pauses. “My dad wouldn’t want to either, but he didn’t have the choice then.”
While some employers, like Hollon’s female boss, are supportive of family-friendly work schedules, others are likely to view this trend with more than a little trepidation. But in theses times of low unemployment, it may be a moot point.
Some businesses may have no choice but offer their workers perks such as paternity leave and flexible work schedules to keep them from leaving for the family-friendly competitor across the street.
Even though more employers are willing to let fathers take time off for their kids, there are still biases that keep men from being the fully engaged fathers they want to be.
“There are some fathers who will tell their supervisors they have a personal doctor’s appointment, when in fact they are taking their child to a doctor’s appointment,’ says Mr.Okun. “We still have situations where men feel they have to be surreptitious.”
It’s anecdotes like these that lead some researchers to believe that young men are finally confronting an obstacle that working mothers have faced for years. It’s called the glass ceiling.