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Passage 2
A Change in Women’s Life
The important change in women’s life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time1 job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly2 before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life and with both husband and wife sharing more equally3 in providing the money, and running the home, according4 to the abilities and interests on each of them. (154 words)
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adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的 | |
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adv.立即,不久;简略地,简言之 | |
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adv.平等地;公平地 | |
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adj.按照,根据 | |
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