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发信人: icecap (玉暖生烟·Mystery), 信区: English
标 题: Women work harder but get less
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年05月14日20:43:33 星期三), 站内信件
ON the face of it, today's women are better off as a result of feminism. Gi
rls achieve more than boys at school and women are rapidly breaking through
glass ceilings (successfully climbing the executive ladder) in many business
es.
The only trouble is that a 25-year-old woman today is 3-to-10 times more lik
ely to be depressed than one in 1950. What went wrong was that American capi
talism hijacked feminism and converted it into a method for making profits r
ather than for liberating women to think and act for themselves.
The dark reality is this: Three-quarters of working women's jobs are low inc
ome, low skill and low status.
Bright, attractive, public school and Oxford and Cambridge graduates take gl
amorous, well-paid jobs in the media or the financial district.
But the reality of the struggle to the top of business, newspapers or televi
sion is one of dirty office politics and working ridiculous hours to make ot
her people rich.
The sense that such women have of life being a horrible cheat is, if anythin
g, even stronger than that felt by their less privileged sisters. Cheated in
to working after school, they find themselves on a treadmill (going round an
d round) in their 20s.
When Bridget Jones (the heroine of "Bridget Jones' Diary", who is a 30-somet
hing single woman) finally gets off the treadmill in her 30s to make babies,
her day is taken up with the squealing of infants — one of the most despis
ed of roles.
She looks in the mirror and, to a horrifying extent, sees her mother — the
woman who encouraged her to study and work in order to take advantage of the
new opportunities that previous generations did not have.
It is not hard to see how women who have been through all this might be just
a little bit angry. And, this is a society where the twisting of feminism's
goals and career dreams has contributed to the increasing number of divorce
s.
Lifestyle
· Lusting for leather clothing
· Rembrandt's women return in vivid detail
· Remember to say thanks
· Goovies offer thrills
More...
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Everyday we have
is one more than we deserve
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