Analyse the sentences below and decide if they are true or false.

Match the phrases to create collocations. social Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. a profession, 2. bias, 3. profession, 4. floor, 5. hours, 6. countries, 7. a position, 8. benefits attain Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. a profession, 2. bias, 3. profession, 4. floor, 5. hours, 6. countries, 7. a position, 8. benefits pursue Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. a profession, 2. bias, 3. profession, 4. floor, 5. hours, 6. countries, 7. a position, 8. benefits masculine Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. a profession, 2. bias, 3. profession, 4. floor, 5. hours, 6. countries, 7. a position, 8. benefits work Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. a profession, 2. bias, 3. profession, 4. floor, 5. hours, 6. countries, 7. a position, 8. benefits wage Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. a profession, 2. bias, 3. profession, 4. floor, 5. hours, 6. countries, 7. a position, 8. benefits developed Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. a profession, 2. bias, 3. profession, 4. floor, 5. hours, 6. countries, 7. a position, 8. benefits flexible Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. a profession, 2. bias, 3. profession, 4. floor, 5. hours, 6. countries, 7. a position, 8. benefits

Play the game above. Next, drag and drop the elements below to fill in the sentences. There are two extra expressions you don’t need to use. 1. I returned from maternity leave and was fired 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity.
2. The problem of pay inequity 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity whose professions have fixed salary tables, like teachers in Poland.
3. While at the start of your career the wage gap might 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity, the problem appears with pay-raises and higher positions and hits middle-age women the hardest.
4. Just because fields like STEM are 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity, it doesn’t mean that the wage gap is huge there – on the contrary, the difference in salary 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity.
5. Although the gap 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity fast between the 60’s and the 90’s, 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity the rate at which it was closing slowed down.
6. Despite laws protecting women’s rights, we haven’t been able to 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity.
7. The 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity clearly shows that having a family influences a woman’s work more than man’s.
8. More and more young women are delaying motherhood and 1. was shrinking, 2. distribution of working hours, 3. for no apparent reason, 4. at some point, 5. was growing, 6. male dominated, 7. doesn’t concern women, 8. be hardly noticeable, 9. are willing to work, 10. might be insignificant, 11. close the wage gap, 12. wage disparity long hours.

Study the game above. Type in the missing expressions to fill in the gaps in the text. The gender wage gap exists in     1. Tu uzupełnij     social groups and countries. It means that women     2. Tu uzupełnij     than men. The wage disparity is so big that a woman who has     3. Tu uzupełnij     might earn even $800,000 less during     4. Tu uzupełnij     than a man in the same situation. There are many reasons for this. One is a social bias called the     5. Tu uzupełnij.     It means many people still don’t see women in such professions or positions as scientist or CEO, so there’s a level or ceiling where women stop and can’t get much higher. That means a lot of well-paid positions are difficult to attain for them. These positions are usually occupied by white or Asian men, which means that if you compare wages of Asian businessmen and Asian businesswomen, the wage gap will be huge. At the other end of the salary scale is the     6. Tu uzupełnij,     which is set by the government, so no one can be paid less. It’s called the wage floor, and so men and women at this end earn more or less the same, and there’s no visible wage gap. But there are other factors influencing the wage gap. Experience is one of them. Throughout their early career, women often gain less experience than men because they have to take breaks to     7. Tu uzupełnij    and then raise them. So they miss out on a few years. They also are     8. Tu uzupełnij     about their working hours if they have a family, because they need to take care of it, often at fixed times. This is often another reason for their lower pay.