新视野研究生英语_读说写1Unit 9 What Does Gender课文原文
don’t have upper-body strength.
I mean some do, but they’re relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets-you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn’t matter, you know.”
14 Aside from Speaker Gingrich`s skewed view, some common sense considerations should and do apply.
For example, if a job at a trucking company requires lifting two-hundred-pound boxes for eight hours a day, an employer might justifiably refuse to give that job to a five-foot-two 110-pound woman (or man, for that matter).
However, if the applicant could demonstrate that he or she could do the job, the employer would have no basis to deny it to him or her.
As another instance, if a man is applying for a job as an attendant for the women’s restroom in a restaurant or hotel, and is denied the job, that’s not sexual discrimination; ’s room . In either of these examples,sex would be a bona fide occupational qualification.
15 If a woman has a license—and a desire—to drive an eighteen wheeler, there’s no lawful reason why she shouldn’t have the job.
If a man is licensed as a nursery school educator, there’s no lawful reason why he shouldn’t have the job. But, stereotypical perceptions persist.