The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century,
{{U}}(51) {{/U}} in the last twenty years. The main change has been
{{U}}(52) {{/U}} giving women greater equality with men. Up to the
beginning of this century, women seem to have had {{U}}(53) {{/U}}
fights. They could not vote and were kept at home. {{U}}(54) {{/U}}, as
far as we know, most women were happy with this situation. Today, women in
Britain certainly {{U}}(55) {{/U}} more rights than they used to.
They were {{U}}(56) {{/U}} the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was
passed to give them an equal {{U}}(57) {{/U}} of wealth in the case of
divorce, {{U}}(58) {{/U}} the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal
pay with men for work of equal value in the same year. Yet
{{U}}(59) {{/U}} these changes, there are still great difference in
status between men and women. Many employers seem to {{U}}(60) {{/U}}
the Equal Pay Act, and the average working women is {{U}}(61) {{/U}} to
earn only about half that a man earns for the same job. {{U}}(62)
{{/U}}a survey, at present, only one-third of the country's workers are
{{U}}(63) {{/U}} women. This small percentage is partly {{U}}(64)
{{/U}} a shortage of nurseries. If there were {{U}}(65) {{/U}}
nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work.