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BTS Management des Unités Commerciales Deuxième année

Anglais
Devoir 3
Document étudié : The hand that rocks the cradle
The Economist, March 4 , 2006 th 1. Warm Up exercises
1) Describe and comment on the document above the article.

Suggestion de réponse :
The document is a drawing that must be an advertisement for a British women's trade union. In the foreground we can see a strong-looking woman wearing a gown. In her right hand she is holding a banner with the inscription: "Women Workers Fellowship for life", meaning solidarity between female workers forever. Her left hand is resting on a badge with the inscription: ”National Federation of Women Workers” which must be the name of the union. In the center, we can see its motto: "to fight to struggle to right the wrong," which alludes to discrimination between men and women in the workplace, and the necessity for the latter to fight to obtain equal salary and rights. In the background we can see factory chimneys and smoke, which indicates that the union was founded mainly th for factory workers, perhaps at the beginning of the 20 century. Thanks to the struggle of such trade unions and the suffragettes, working conditions have improved. Nevertheless, there is still room for progress, and this document is a good introduction to the article about the gender gap in the workplace.

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2) Describe and comment on the chart at the end of the article.

Suggestion de réponse :
Above the chart published by the Department for Work and Pensions we see the heading "birthing pains" which refers to the negative impact of childbirth and raising a family on a woman's career. Beneath the chart we can see numbers ranging from minus 5 to 29, which correspond to a woman's career before and after childbirth. On the right, the numbers 60 - 95 correspond to the average hourly female wage as a percentage of the average male wage of all workers. The chart shows that before having