The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, 【B1】 in the last twenty ye

ars. The main change has been 【B2】 giving women greater equality with men. 【B3】 to the beginning of this century, women seem to have had 【B4】 rights. They could not vote and were kept at home. 【B5】 , as far as we know, most women were happy 【B6】 this situation. Today, women in Britain certainly 【B7】 more rights than they used to. They were 【B8】 the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal 【B9】 of wealth in the case of divorce, 【B10】 the Equal Pay Act gave them the right 【B11】 equal pay with men for work of equal value in the same year. Yet 【B12】 these changes, there are still great difference in status between men and women. Many employers seem to 【B13】 the Equal Pay Act, and the average working women is 【B14】 to earn only about half 【B15】 a man earns for the same job. 【B16】 a survey, at present, only one third of the country's workers are 【B17】 women. This small percentage is partly 【B18】 a shortage of nurseries. If there were 【B19】 nurseries, twice as many women 【B20】 go out to work.

【B1】

A．certainly

B．especially

C．apparently

D．practically