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1 More than a century after women started campaigning
for the right to vote, it still seems that there aren’t enough
women in position of power. In the world as a whole, there
4 have been very few female heads of state and in some countries
women hold hardly any political power. In industrialized
countries where large numbers of women work, it still happens
7 that men earn two or three times as much for doing the same
job. Although there are a few successful female business
leaders, there are clearly many more men at the top. Many
10 people believe that this situation reflects the fact that women
haven’t got enough time to be successful in the work place, and
in the home. There is too much pressure on women, they say,
13 to be good wives and mothers, and they are at a disadvantage
in the job market. However, there is quite a lot of evidence to
suggest that women can be more successful in the modern
16 business environment than men. Many modern business
operations now depend on co-operation and flexibility, and
women are better at those skills than men. So it may well be
19 that in the future, quite a lot of important business will be run
by women, and it will be the men who earn lower wages or stay
at home.
In the future, it may well be that men will eventually get lower pay or be at home, while women work out.