Spot dictation: Women’s 1 is a serious problem. It is 2 in almost every aspect of social life. Even our language often 3 that women simply don’t exist. For example, once the word man meant person or human being. But the word man has gradually become 4 and is now 5 for an adult male human being only. In the words of 6 for children, a boy grows up to be a man. Father and Uncle George are both men. This is the meaning that we understand because we hear the word man used in everyday speech in this way from childhood. Later we learn that the word man 7 , but we do not accept it 8 . Studies of college students and school children show that phrases like economic man and political man or man is a dreamer create an image of males only, not females or males and females together. Furthermore, we have become aware that 9 often 10 and sometimes the very presence of women.