Session 1: Vocabulary Builder for English English

	Question	Answer
	It turns out that whether they want highersalaries or more help at home, women often find it _______________ to ask	hard
	And sometimes they don't ask because they've learnedthat society can react badly to women _______________ their own needs and desires	asserting
	By _______________ at the barriers holding women back and the social forces_______________ them, Women Don't Ask shows women how to reframe their interactionsand more accurately _______________ their opportunities	looking/ constraining/ evaluate
	It teaches them how to ask forwhat they want in ways that feel comfortable and possible, _______________ into accountthe impact of asking on their relationships.	taking
	And it teaches all of us how to recognize the waysin which our institutions, child-_______________ practices, and unspoken assumptions_______________ inequalities-- inequalities that are not only fundamentally unfair but alsoinefficient and economically _______________	-rearing/ perpetuate/ unsound
	With women's progress toward full economic and social equality _______________, women'slives becoming increasingly complex	stalled
	the_______________ to negotiate is no longer a luxury but a necessity. _______________ onresearch in psychology, sociology, economics, and organizational behavior as well as dozensof interviews	ability/ drawing
	Women Don't Ask is the first bookto identify the _______________ difference between men and women in their propensity tonegotiate for what they want	dramatic
	A few years ago, when Linda was _______________ as the director of the Ph.D. program	serving
	Many of the malegraduate students were teaching courses of _______________ own, the women explained	their
	Linda agreed that this _______________ sound fair, and that afternoon sheasked the associate dean who handled teaching assignments about the women's complaint.She received a simple answer	didn't
	try to find teaching opportunities for any student who_______________ me with a good idea for a course, the ability to teach, and a reasonable	approaches
	This incident and the associate dean's explanation_______________ to Linda the existence of a more _______________ problem.	suggested/ pervasive
	Are there external pressures that discourage women _______________ askingas much as men do -- and even keep them from realizing that they can ask? Are women really_______________ likely than men to ask for what they want?	from/ less
	To explore this question, Linda _______________ a study that looked _______________ thestarting salaries of students graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with their master'sdegrees.	conducted/ at
	When Linda looked exclusively at gender, the difference was fairly large: Thestarting _______________ of the men were 7.6 percent or almost $4,000 higher on averagethan those of the women.	salaries
	Trying to explain this difference, Linda looked next at who had_______________ his or her salary (who had asked for more money) and who had simply_______________ the initial offer he or she had received	negotiated/ accepted
	It turned _______________ thatonly 7 percent of the female students had negotiated but 57 percent (eight times as many) ofthe men had asked for more money	out
	Linda was _______________ surprised to find such adramatic difference between men and women at Carnegie Mellon because graduating studentsare strongly _______________ by the school's Career Services department to negotiate theirjob offers. Nonetheless, _______________ any of the women had done _______________.	particularly/ advised/ hardly/ so
	The most _______________ finding, however, was that the students who had negotiated(most of them men) were able to increase their starting salaries _______________ 7.4 percent_______________ average, or $4,053	striking/ by/ on
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Question

Answer

It turns out that whether they want highersalaries or more help at home, women often find it _______________ to ask

hard

And sometimes they don't ask because they've learnedthat society can react badly to women _______________ their own needs and desires

asserting

By _______________ at the barriers holding women back and the social forces_______________ them, Women Don't Ask shows women how to reframe their interactionsand more accurately _______________ their opportunities

looking/ constraining/ evaluate

It teaches them how to ask forwhat they want in ways that feel comfortable and possible, _______________ into accountthe impact of asking on their relationships.

taking

And it teaches all of us how to recognize the waysin which our institutions, child-_______________ practices, and unspoken assumptions_______________ inequalities-- inequalities that are not only fundamentally unfair but alsoinefficient and economically _______________

-rearing/ perpetuate/ unsound

With women's progress toward full economic and social equality _______________, women'slives becoming increasingly complex

stalled

the_______________ to negotiate is no longer a luxury but a necessity. _______________ onresearch in psychology, sociology, economics, and organizational behavior as well as dozensof interviews

ability/ drawing

Women Don't Ask is the first bookto identify the _______________ difference between men and women in their propensity tonegotiate for what they want

dramatic

A few years ago, when Linda was _______________ as the director of the Ph.D. program

serving

Many of the malegraduate students were teaching courses of _______________ own, the women explained

their

Linda agreed that this _______________ sound fair, and that afternoon sheasked the associate dean who handled teaching assignments about the women's complaint.She received a simple answer

didn't

try to find teaching opportunities for any student who_______________ me with a good idea for a course, the ability to teach, and a reasonable

approaches

This incident and the associate dean's explanation_______________ to Linda the existence of a more _______________ problem.

suggested/ pervasive

Are there external pressures that discourage women _______________ askingas much as men do -- and even keep them from realizing that they can ask? Are women really_______________ likely than men to ask for what they want?

from/ less

To explore this question, Linda _______________ a study that looked _______________ thestarting salaries of students graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with their master'sdegrees.

conducted/ at

When Linda looked exclusively at gender, the difference was fairly large: Thestarting _______________ of the men were 7.6 percent or almost $4,000 higher on averagethan those of the women.

salaries

Trying to explain this difference, Linda looked next at who had_______________ his or her salary (who had asked for more money) and who had simply_______________ the initial offer he or she had received

negotiated/ accepted

It turned _______________ thatonly 7 percent of the female students had negotiated but 57 percent (eight times as many) ofthe men had asked for more money

out

Linda was _______________ surprised to find such adramatic difference between men and women at Carnegie Mellon because graduating studentsare strongly _______________ by the school's Career Services department to negotiate theirjob offers. Nonetheless, _______________ any of the women had done _______________.

particularly/ advised/ hardly/ so

The most _______________ finding, however, was that the students who had negotiated(most of them men) were able to increase their starting salaries _______________ 7.4 percent_______________ average, or $4,053

striking/ by/ on

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