Inform the others in your group about your article. In class, talk about the highlighted expressions and compare your explanations. Media task. What is the situation for women in Austria? Try to find the following information. ■■ employment statistics ■■ distribution of women among different areas of employment ■■ rights of female employees ■■ inequality of pay (regional differences) Write an online article using the information you found out in 9–11a. In your article, you should: ■■ describe the employment situation of women in Austria ■■ compare it with other countries ■■ speculate about future developments Give your article a title. Write around 350 words. 1 Writing guide: Article, p. 200. Speaking 10 a A study by the ILO of child care in ten countries last year found huge national differences. In some countries nurseries are seen as a public entitlement, rather like schools. In others the care of small children is considered a private matter. Most countries come somewhere in between. How quickly women should return to work after having a child is a difficult question. Clearly they need time to recover physically, to get the baby into a routine and to find child care, so something longer than the basic maternity leave at first sight seems preferable, but it makes it harder to settle back into the job afterwards. If new mothers are off for only a few months their skills will still be fresh when they return, and their employers find it easier to arrange temporary cover. Germany used to encourage women to stay home for up to three years after having a baby, but in 2007 the government changed the incentives because women were becoming disconnected from the labour market. Data on return rates are scarce, but in some European countries at least a quarter of the women go back to work when their maternity leave runs out, and in Anglophone countries about half the women are back on their child’s first birthday. b a Writing 11 b Unemployment You are going to listen to three young people from Newcastle talking about their difficulties finding a job. Their story is an increasingly familiar one, and not only in the north-east region, where unemployment is generally several percent above the UK average. 1 How old are the people? 2 What qualifications do they have? 3 What’s their problem? Sandra Neil Alan Listening 12 a z4z92n 25 Listen again. Who: 1 thinks that some of their job problems may be gender-related? 2 has had to move back home because they cannot afford their own accommodation? 3 came very close to being hired for a job? 4 considers the job centre a waste of time? 5 complains about a constant lack of funds? 6 complains about never receiving an acknowledgement of their applications? b 78 Language skills Extras Explore 6 Work, work, work Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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