Questão 1782149

1 More than a century after women started campaigning

for the right to vote, it still seems that there aren’t enough

women in position of power. In the world as a whole, there

4 have been very few female heads of state and in some countries

women hold hardly any political power. In industrialized

countries where large numbers of women work, it still happens

7 that men earn two or three times as much for doing the same

job. Although there are a few successful female business

leaders, there are clearly many more men at the top. Many

10 people believe that this situation reflects the fact that women

haven’t got enough time to be successful in the work place, and

in the home. There is too much pressure on women, they say,

13 to be good wives and mothers, and they are at a disadvantage

in the job market. However, there is quite a lot of evidence to

suggest that women can be more successful in the modern

16 business environment than men. Many modern business

operations now depend on co-operation and flexibility, and

women are better at those skills than men. So it may well be

19 that in the future, quite a lot of important business will be run

by women, and it will be the men who earn lower wages or stay

at home.

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Based on the text, judge the following items.

There are countries where a woman has almost no political influence.