English Comprehension worksheet-Women

Women

Doing housework, taking care of children and carrying out assorted jobs for husbands are work as much as performing paid work in any office. The reality of housework is that women’s work in the home averages 56 hours per week for the full time homemaker and 26 hours per week for the employed wife/mother. Husbands and children barely increase their contribution to house work and child care. As a result, the employed woman gives up most of her leisure to carry out the responsibilities of a family life.

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We realize that it may sound strange to hear women’s activities in the home, called work. Since women, who do household work and take care of children receive no salary or wages; homemaking is not considered work.

Women’s work in the home will require recognition when women will be paid equally in labor force. There will be no discrimination based on sex. Only then women’s work in the home will be rewarded and recognized.

Time saving gadgets and appliances might have saved their energy but not the time of housewives. Women are more busy in cleaning, washing, cooking than ever before. This is because the tastes and requirements of the members of the family have become more demanding.

Multiple-Choice Question:

1. Doing household work by women is _____ than office work.

(A) more demanding                      (B) less demanding

(C) not demanding                          (D) as much demanding

2. Women’s work in the home will require recognition when

(A) women do not do work.

(B) women will be paid equally in the labor force.

(C) women receive no salary

(D) machines are made to do work

3. Who works more at home?

(A) A homemaker                            (B) A working woman

(C) A husband                                  (D) The children

4. An average homemaker works ______ hours a week.

(A) less than 26   (B) 56                   (C) less than 56   (D) 24

5. The word ‘barely’ means

(A) freely             (B) hardly            (C) greatly           (D) mostly

Fill in the blanks:

6. _____ have saved their energies.
7. _____ is not considered as work.
8. There should be no _______ based on sex.
9. It sounds strange to call women’s activities at home as _____.
10. A ____ woman gives most of her leisure to carry out responsibilities at home.

True/False:

11. The housewives are also called homemakers.
12. A working woman gets enough leisure.
13. Family members are nowadays more demanding.
14. Homemakers are paid for the work they do.
15. Women working at home are considered equal to the women working in offices.

Answer key

(1)–(D); (2)–(B); (3)–(A); (4)–(B); (5)–(B); (6)–time saving gadgets; (7)–homemaking; (8)–discrimination; (9)–work; (10)–working; (11)–True; (12)–False; (13)–True; (14)–False; (15)–False