English Song of the Day

Queen is a British rock band formed in London in 1970, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works, incorporating further diverse styles into their music.

Here is one track from their album A kind of Magic and it was originally conceived by Roger Taylor.

E N J O Y !

Men and Women

Women want more freedom. They want better jobs, more pay, less time at home with their children. Do British women have the same rights as British men?
In the world of work, things have not change much in the last ten years. Forty per cent of jobs are done by women, but only twenty-five per cent are done by married women. And the jobs that women do are the worst paid and the least interesting.

In public life, Britain has had a woman Prime Minister, but only 25 out of 650 Members of Parliament are women. The are many few women in the top business jobs, or in the most important jobs in the civil service.

Margaret Thatcher
The First Woman Primer Minister of England

On the other hand, some things have been changing. Men seem to be more interested in their homes and their children these days. Probably ninety-five per cent of British fathers now watch their babies being born. Twenty years ago, most fathers would not push a baby's pram around the streets or change a baby's clothes. They thought it was "silly" or "unmanly".

                              

But what about house work? Does the modern British man work in the kitchen, or go round with the vacuum cleaner, or hang up the washing to dry? Not very often, is te answer.

Women still do nearly all the work at home, even when they have a full-time job. Men don't really need to worry about "women's lib" after all. Not yet, anyway..