星期 4 ThursdayBusiness is the salf of life.事业是人生旳第一需要。学习内容题 材词 数提议时间错误记录做题备忘Text A女性职场4306 分钟 /5Text B经济管理3925 分钟 /5Text C自然奥秘4506.5 分钟 /5Text D社会问题5467.5 分钟 /5今日练习Text ADespite all the progress toward women’s equality, women who work full time are still earning only 75 cents on average to every dollar earned by men.Driving home that point, the National Committee on Pay Equity has chosen April 16 this year, to remind Americans that all women would need to work at least an extra two days in a workweek to earn almost as much as all men do in one normal workweek.Why does such a wage gap still persist?Economists differ in their explanations. And yet this income disparity is seen as a key indicator of how women are treated — in both the workplace and at home.Fortunately, the women’s movement and civil rights enforcement have ended most gender discrimination in setting wages. Now advocates are focused on ensuring that working women have female advisers and role models, while they try to remove subtle discrimination in promotions — the “glass ceiling” (指职业女性在职务提高时碰到旳无形阻力)that accounts for so few women being in top management.Many economists, however, say many women have lower-paying jobs because of choices made in their home life, such as taking time out to raise children. Or women take part-time, low-wage jobs for the flexibility. When they do reenter the workforce full time, they’re often behind their working peers in pay and promotions.But as more women feel empowered to make career choices, their pay rises.Another explanation is that women don’t really make the choice to drop off the career ladder or to stay at a lower ...
