The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, 【C1】______ in the last twen-ty years. The main change has been 【C2】______ giving women greater equality with men. 【C3】______ to the beginning of this century, women seem to have had 【C4】______ rights. They could not vote and were kept at home. 【C5】______ , as far as we know, most women were happy 【C6】______ this situation. Today, women in Britain certainly 【C7】______ more rights than they used to. They were 【C8】______ the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal 【C9】______ of wealth in the case of divorce, 【C10】______ the Equal Pay Act gave them the right 【C11】______ equal pay with men for work of equal value in the same year. Yet 【C12】______ these changes, there are still great differences in status between men and women. Many employers seem to 【C13】______ the Equal Pay Act, and the average workingwomen is 【C14】______ to earn only about half 【C15】______ a man earns for the same job. 【C16】______ a sur-vey, at present, only one-third of the country's workers are 【C17】______ women. This small percentage is partly 【C18】______ a shortage of nurseries. If there were 【C19】______ nurseries, twice as many women 【C20】______ go out to work. 【C1】______