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For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additional incentive to take jobs where they can find them

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问题     For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additional incentive to take jobs where they can find them. Although female-dominated office and service jobs for the most part, rank lower in pay and status, "they’re still there," says June O’Neill, director of program and policy research at the institute. Traditionally, male blue-collar jobs, meanwhile, "aren’t increasing at all."
    At the same time, she says, "The outlooks of young people are different." Younger men with less rigid views on what constitutes male or female work "may not feel there’s such a stigma (耻辱) to work in a female-dominated field."
    Although views have softened, men who cross the sexual segregation line in the job market may still face discrimination and ridicule. David Anderson, a 36 year old former high school teacher, says he found secretarial work "a way out of teaching and into the business world". He had applied for work at 23 employment agencies for "management training jobs that didn’t exist", and he discovered that "the best skill I had was being able to type 70 words a minute".
    He took a job as a secretary to the marketing director of a New York publishing company. But he says he could feel a lot of people wondering what he was doing there and if something was wrong with him.
    Mr. Anderson’s boss was a woman. When she asked him to fetch coffee, he says, "The other secretaries eyebrows went up." Sales executives who came in to see his boss, he says, "couldn’t quite believe that I could and would type, take dictation, and answer the phones."
    Males sometimes found themselves mistaken for higher status professionals. Anthony Shee, a flight attendant with U.S. Air Inc., has been mistaken for a pilot. Mr. Anderson, the secretary, says he found himself being "treated in executive tones whenever I wore a suit."
    In fact, the men in traditional female jobs often move up the ladder fast. Mr. Anderson actually worked only seven months as a secretary. Then he got a higher level, better paying job as a placement counselor at an employment agency. "I got a lot of encouragement to advance," he says, "including job tips from male executives who couldn’t quite see me staying a secretary."
    Experts say, for example that while men make up only a small fraction of elementary school teachers, a disproportionate number of elementary principals are men. Barbara Bergmann, an economist at the University of Maryland who has studied sex segregation at work, believes that’s partly because of "sexism in the occupational structure" and partly because men have been raised to assert themselves and to assume responsibility. Men may also feel more compelled than women to advance, she suspects.
It can be inferred from the last paragraph that______.
选项 A、most elementary principals are men
B、men are more likely to get promoted than women
C、women pay more attention to their families than to their work
D、men may be more assertive than women at work
答案D
解析 根据题干中的last paragraph将本题出处定位到末段。该段两句提到，男性从小被教育要表现自信并承担责任，他们也比女性感到更大的前进压力。由此可推断，男性在工作中可能比女性更为坚定自信，故答案为[D]。[D]中的be more assertive与原文中assert themselves相对应。末段首句提到男性在小学教师中仅占一小部分，而男性校长的人数却与此不合比例，并未确切地说大多数小学校长都是男性，故排除[A]。文章中提到男性比女性升迁快是在倒数第二段而非末段，且末段未提到女性更关注家庭，故排除[B]和[C]。
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