WOMEN

Question 1

le machisme

Answer 1

Machismo/

Question 2

/des préjugés sexistes

Answer 2

Sexist prejudices

Question 3

un mariage arrangé

Answer 3

An arranged marriage/

Question 4

une dot

Answer 4

A dowry/

Question 5

une femme battue

Answer 5

A battered wife/

Question 6

tomber enceinte

Answer 6

To become pregnant/

Question 7

/être en congé maternité

Answer 7

To go on maternity leave

Question 8

une nourrice

Answer 8

A childminder/

Question 9

faire bouillir la marmite

Answer 9

To bring home the bacon/

Question 10

/égalité des salaires

Answer 10

Equal pay/

Question 11

A menial job job

Answer 11

/un emploi subalterne

Question 12

To be disciminated against/

Answer 12

être victime de

discriminations

Question 13

To introduce quotas

Answer 13

/instaurer des quotas

Question 14

l’égalité des chances

Answer 14

equal opportunities

Question 15

/le désequilibre des sexes

Answer 15

Gender inbalance

Question 16

un machiste

Answer 16

A chauvinist

Question 17

la misogynie

Answer 17

Misogyny/

Question 18

/un mariage blanc

Answer 18

A sharm marriage

Question 19

l’excision

Answer 19

Female circumcision/

Question 20

To be on the pill/

Answer 20

prendre la pilule

Question 21

congé parenta

Answer 21

Parental leave/

Question 22

une crèche

Answer 22

A nursery/

Question 23

concilier

Answer 23

To reconcile/

Question 24

travailler à temps partiel/plein

Answer 24

To work part/full time/

Question 25

/le différentiel de salaires entre les | sexes

Answer 25

The gender pay gap

Question 26

The gender pay gap

Answer 26

diff

Question 27

une chasse gardée pour les hommes

Answer 27

A male preserve/

Question 28

la parité

Answer 28

Parity/

Question 29

/la discrimination positive

Answer 29

Affirmative action

Question 30

Household choresménagères

Answer 30

/les tâches

Question 31

In the US, The Equal Pay Act(1963) made it illegal to pay men and women different wage rates for jobs that require equal skill and responsibility and are performed under similar working conditions. Similar acts were passed in Great-Britain in 1970 and in France in 1972.

Answer 31

equal pay act

Question 32

Comment se fait-il que les inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes n’aient pas disparu?

Answer 32

How come gender inequalities have not disappeared?

Question 33

Beaucoup de gens croient que le sort des femmes

Answer 33

Belief that the lot of women .... is widespread