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Unit 8Text IWomen in Education, Sports and MediaEducation1. Be the focus of: the center, heart or core2. Have many other concerns: responsibilities, worries3. Elimination of sex bias: eradication, removal4. Achieve equality5. Segregate: separate; keep apart; isolate6. Be programmed for: be designed for; make a plan for7. Industrial arts: special skills8. Passage: enactment9. Amendment: revision10. Prohibit: forbid, ban, bar11. Enforcement: enforce; take effect; come into effect; go into effect12. Admission: enrollment13. Be available to14. Be unavailable to15. Decision-making position: the process of deciding what to do about sth, especially inan organization; in the position to make decision; hold the decisive position of an organization16. Administrate: to oversee or organize the affairs of something, especially a business, organization, or institution17. Superintendant: manager18. Check on: examine; do routine checks on the condition of 19. Few complaints filed about sex discrimination are actually investigated20. They were denied equal pay21. Were either ignored or offered relief when it no longer mattered22. Turn ones back on sb: ignore23. Offer relief:help given to people in bad situation24. When it no longer matter: it no longer made a difference. No longer be of importance. No longer be relevant.Sports: 1. In part: partially; to some degree2. Increase in media attention and in prize money3. Endurance: stamina4. Coordination skills: harmonization; dexterity(敏捷)Media1. In attempting to: trying2. In all forms of media: 3. Reflections of mens ideas: opinions, ideas4. Convictions: strong belief or opinion about 5. Gain visibility: prominence; view. Can be clearly s