Female Emancipation 4 PDF

## SECTION 1 | THEMATIC PATHS ### 2 TRAINING FOR INVALSI | LISTENING TRACK 01 | Listen to a teacher talking about the figure of the governess in the Victorian era. Choose the best answer. a. The governess... - was not an ordinary servant - was part of the family - was an ordinary servant b....

## SECTION 1 | THEMATIC PATHS ### 2 TRAINING FOR INVALSI | LISTENING TRACK 01 | Listen to a teacher talking about the figure of the governess in the Victorian era. Choose the best answer. a. The governess... - was not an ordinary servant - was part of the family - was an ordinary servant b. In 1851,... - most of the women were employed as governesses - 25,000 women earned their living teaching and looking after other women's children - 25,000 women were teachers c. Most governesses... - were well paid - were fed and housed - had to pay for their meals d. For a middle-class woman who had no family to support her, being a governess was... - the only respectable occupation - one of the many jobs she could do - considered a privilege e. From the beginning of the 19th century,... - the upper classes started to hire governesses - the middle classes started to hire governesses - the lower classes could not afford a governess f. For a family, hiring a woman to raise their children... - became a status symbol - was an opportunity - was an honour The most famous governess role which may be familiar is that of 'Mary Poppins' ### 2.1 The women's suffrage movement ### 3 TRAINING FOR INVALSI Parts of the text have been removed Choose the correct part (A-F) for each gap (1-6). There are two extra parts that you should not use. The first one (0) has been done for you. The feminist movement (also known as the Women's Movement, Women's Liberation or Women's Lib) refers to **(0) E** on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, voting rights, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. The movement's history has gone through three waves, **(1)** ... In the mid-19th century, women in several countries - above all, the US and Britain - formed organizations to fight for **suffrage**. **(2)** ... was the struggle for the right of women to **vote** in elections. The word "suffragette" was first used **(3)**... in an article in a British newspaper in 1906. One major division, especially in Britain, was between suffragists, who wanted to create change constitutionally, **(4)**... led by English political activist Emmeline Pankhurst, who in 1903 formed the more militant... ### GLOSSARY - **Smash (to)**: break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound - **Struggle**: a war, fight, conflict, or contest of any kind - **Suffrage**: the right to vote - **Vote (to)**: formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual