MALE & FEMALE ROLES
What do you think about traditional ideas of male and female roles?
Match each response with its function in the discussion.
1. That's a sensitive subject, so I'd like to think about how to put it.
2. Traditional roles have influenced employment, childcare, housework, education and expectations about behaviour.
3. I think people should be free to choose their roles regardless of whether they are male or female.
4. I agree that opportunities shouldn't depend on someone's sex.
5. I don't agree that all traditional differences between men and women are necessarily harmful.
6. But isn't there a danger that what is described as a personal choice is actually influenced by social expectations?
7. If people's opportunities are genuinely equal, then differences in the choices they make cannot automatically be regarded as discrimination.
8. When you say "equal roles", do you mean exactly the same roles?
9. One solution would be to encourage more flexible working and more equal sharing of childcare.
10. What do you think about traditional ideas of male and female roles?
Possible answers
- Delaying strategies
- Presenting a number of arguments
- Giving your opinion about a topic
- Agreeing
- Disagreeing
- Countering
- Logical argument
- Clarification
- Expressing solutions and alternatives
- Asking someone for their opinion about a topic
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