Lifestyle in Britain. Дворжец О.С. - 123 стр.

some feel isolated without the chance for a               traditional and wore a uniform to be a
chat around the coffee machine.                           nanny. I have always got on well with
So there it is – losing your own desk, compa-             children. I have always enjoyed taking care
nies saving more money, more people staying               of my sister and younger cousins. I told
at home. We’ll have to see how long the tradi-            Mummy very firmly that I wanted to be a
tional office lasts in the light of these new de-         nanny when I grew up. At the time she
velopments.                                               laughed. I know that she and Daddy
                                                          thought it was just a childish phase I was
Tapescript 5                                              going through, but it wasn’t. They thought
                                                          I would follow in my father’s footsteps and
Does the way you look affect your career                  study law. But I didn’t. There were some
chances?                                                  terrible rows but I didn’t go to university. I
                                                          left school and spent a year working at Lud-
To find the answer, Jeff Biddle and Daniel                grove School, where Prince William used
Hamermesh of the university of Texas sur-                 to go. Then I started my training course at
veyed 7,000 people.                                       Norland College. I finished the course last
They discovered that good-looking people                  month and I’ve applied for the post of
were paid around 15% more.                                nanny to twins aged six months. Mummy
Biddle and Hamermesh then spent 15 years                  and Daddy weren’t angry for long, we
following the careers of a selected group of              made it up before I went to college, and
lawyers. They found that the better-looking               they have encouraged me ever since.
ones had better chances of promotion than the
others.
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They also found that more was expected of
the better-looking ones by their clients.
                                                          Whenever modern thinkers turn their atten-
However, a reaction is now occurring against
                                                          tion to the condition of marriage today,
this kind of discrimination in the work place.
                                                          they are agreed on one thing; that our
The courts are awarding compensation in
                                                          ‘morally liberated age’ gives couples every
cases of unfair dismissal.
                                                          chance to avoid a failed marriage. An ex-
In Santa Cruz, discrimination on the basis of a
                                                          traordinary survey in English has over-
person’s physical characteristic is now forbid-
                                                          turned the new moralists. It proves that
den.
                                                          couples who married in the old-fashioned
The only criterion for employment is whether
                                                          way – without much pre-marital physical
a person is able to do the job.
                                                          contact – were just as happy and contented
                                                          as ‘modern’ couples.
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                                                          Professor Martin Whyte, who led the re-
                                                          search team in Detroit, said ‘We have
My sister Charlotte was born when I was
                                                          shown clearly that brides who took the op-
seven and my mother decided she needed a
                                                          portunity to date other men or live with
nanny to look after us. So we got Alison. She
                                                          their partners before marriage have no bet-
was very young, seventeen I think, and won-
                                                          ter chance of a happy ending’.
derful. I adored her. She only worked part-
                                                          ‘What really counts are the romantic feel-
time with us before she started her training at
                                                          ings. The couple who felt romance had more
Norland College. She had to dress us in the
                                                          chance of making a successful marriage’.
morning and take me to school. After school
she made us delicious teas and read us stories
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in bed. On Charlotte’s birthday she organized
a fantastic party.
When Alison left, we had a trained nanny                  Blind Date
who lived with us and worked full-time. She                    Blind Date, hosted by Cilla Black,
was called Nanny Barnes by everyone, in-                  has been running on British TV since
cluding my parents. She was older and quite               1985. In the programme, a man and a

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