Activity 1.

What I need to know to complete this activity successfully:

● Phrasal Verbs

Vocabulary required:

● Discrimination related vocabulary: Against, Suppression, Struggle, Rights, Attack, Attacker

What is this activity useful for? By properly completing this activity, you will be able to provide supported
points of views on issues of general interest, understanding and respecting others opinions and assuming a
position about a topic.

Part 1. Warm-up: Answer the following question before reading the article below (4 points each one).

1. What is discrimination?

Discrimination is when one person or more are criticized by other people for culture, race, different
characteristics etc… And there is not inclusion for some activities.

2. What is stereotyping? Give some examples.

It is what society thinks is perfect or unique, but in reality it is not perfection, it is simply a thought that
seems correct. For example, the women body should be 90 - 60 – 90, but it is also pretty with other
measures.

3. How many types of discrimination can you think of? Give examples.
Race: When the skin color is different, for the native region
Physical: When characteristics like height, hair, body mass among others are different
Culture: The different regions have different cultures, but sometimes there's no respect
Personality: We can be extroverts or introverts and we can have different tastes

Part 2. Read the text carefully and answer the questions

Rewrite the Rules on Women in Tech By Karen Ross

“Sexist attitudes are pervasive. It's up to risk-taking women to change the tech game.”

From time to time, I’m reminded that for every two steps forward, we take one step back. The latest
reminder came last week when reading The New York Times front page story “As Inequality Roils Tech
World, a Group Wants More Say: Men.” This story, and some of the men quoted in it, reminds me of the hell I
went through to become a successful woman in the technology industry. That a growing contingent of men in
Silicon Valley think the women in tech movement have gone too far makes me believe we have only gone
backward.

This is 2017. The same sexist attitudes were being thrown around more than 30 years ago when I fought to
get my start in tech in New York City. But to read these insults today was nevertheless jarring. James
Damore, the same Google engineer who was recently fired for suggesting women held fewer tech positions
than men because of biological inferiority, told the Times that the idea that “diversity improves workplace
output, it’s not scientifically decided that that’s true.”

Actually, it is. In a 2016 analysis of 500 U.S. companies, the National Center for Women & Information
Technology found that organizations with more diverse teams in terms of race and gender had higher sales
revenue, more customers, greater market share and greater productivity than their less diverse counterparts.
What’s more, there aren’t that many women in technology to begin with, a point on which The New York
Times ended their story. According to Girls Who Code, only 24% of computer scientists are women – down 13
percentage points since 1995. The organization warns that if the gender gap is not addressed, there will only
be 2 female computer scientists for every 9 male computer scientists in 10 years. The numbers are even
bleaker at the top of the sector’s food chain: Only 5% of leadership positions are held by women.

I’m incredibly humbled and proud to call myself part of the 5%. The men that feel victimized in this New York
Times story are not that different from the men I battled in the 1980s and 1990s, when women in technology
were a laughing matter. After being mistreated, offended and underestimated long enough in an industry rife
with systemic sexism, I realized this was the status quo. I understood I had to create my own rules to be
successful in this industry. So, I decided, quite literally, I wasn’t going to work for "the man" anymore. I
decided to open my own firm.

I knew I could build a technology services firm with more integrity, ingenuity and commitment to client services
than any I had come across. That’s exactly what I did in 1984 with my first company, Turn-Key Solutions. It
did so well I was able to sell it six years later to start the technology consulting company I operate today,
Sharp Decisions.

But things were still an uphill battle. As a new CEO with Turn-Key and Sharp, I wore many hats – not only was
I the CEO, but the chief financial officer, vice president, account executive, human resources manager and
receptionist. It was never easy, especially when I had to pretend to be another person. That wasn’t just once,
either. I remember a client called once, expecting to hear from a man, so I pretended to be the CEO’s
receptionist (in a way, I was). Another time, I hired an actor to play the role of my CEO during a big client pitch
in Tennessee. Again, I went as the assistant. This client, by the way, is a multi-billion-dollar logistics company.
I took big risks to be seen for what I am: a businessperson in the tech world. And it’s that type of risk-taking
that should continue. Women should continue persisting, speaking up for what they believe in and taking risks
to show their skills and value. They should, whenever possible, look to rewrite the rules. Because the road to
6% is paved with those women.

Ross, K. (2017, October 6th) Rewrite the Rules on Women in Tech. Retrieved from: https://tinyurl.com/s6x2md7

A. Choose the answer (A, B, C, D) which you think fits best according to the text.

1. Having success in the technology industry was … for Karen. (2 point)

(A) a piece of cake
(B) really arduous
(C) not a very difficult task
(D) something she was prepared

2. What does ‘jarring’ mean in line 13? (2 point)

 (A) ordinary
(B) typical
(C) unsurprising
(D) astonishing

3. A 2016 study … James Damore’s opinion about diversity at the workplace. (2 point)
(A) confirms
(B) reinforces
(C) contradicts
(D) ratifies

4. Girls Who Code foresee … in 10 years’ time. (2 point)

(A) a bigger gender gap in computer science
(B) a narrower gender gap in computer science
(C) an improvement in the gender gap in computer science
(D) a stunning gender gap in computer science

5. Due to her male partners’ behavior, Karen … (2 point)

(A) decided to create Sharp Decisions.
(B) refused to accept men in her new business.
(C) rejected this systemic sexism at her workplace.
(D) decided to set up her own business.

6. As a CEO at Sharp Decisions, Karen had to … (2 point)

(A) perform very different tasks.
(B) pretend to be the vice president.
(C) play the role of an actor.
(D) Take off many hats.

B. According to the text, what do these expressions mean? Explain and support your ideas.

1. “for every two steps forward, we take one step back”, line 1. (3 point)
That women and society advance slowly because machismo is still very present

2. “women in technology were a laughing matter”, third paragraph. (3 point)

It means that women were not well regarded in this area because "they cannot" or "they are
biologically inferior"

C. What do the underlined words refer to? (2 point each)

1. It - For a pronoun of both subject and object

2. We - When speaking of more than one person and I include or in this case the person speaking
3. My - When you talk about me, but possessively
4. That - As a determinant, a demonstrative pronoun and a relative pronoun.

D. Look at the chart on the next page and make sentences using these phrasal verbs to express some
ideas or opinions related to the article (3 points each one).
 1. Machismo must be far for society to advance, extremes do not work.
2. After some studies it is shown that women and men form a good team
3. Around the economy of any country there must be equal numbers of men
and women for best results
4. it is necessary to talk about gender equality to promote it
5. New strategies can be generated in new companies across gender equality
6. At the hour of work in any field, it is necessary to think that men and
women deserve the same conditions
7. Along of history, greater gender equality has been achieved, but there is
still a long way to go