A、Parents. B、Children. C、Pay scales. D、Management systems. C

Most young women believe they will achieve a balance between a rewarding career and a fulfilling personal life. This online survey of full-time working women between the ages of 22 and 35 revealed that they wanted a balance between their personal and professional lives, and a job where they could make a difference. Medical benefits were a crucial part of how they defined professional success, according to the survey commissioned by the global management consulting firm Accenture. 63% of women think medical benefits are a crucial to the professional success. Women are soon expected to make up half the US workforce and those born after 1980 are now 1/3 of the working population. 94% of women believed they could achieve a balance between a satisfying professional career and a gratifying personal life. When asked to rank barriers to their careers, 12% cited marriage, 19% said maternity policies and 30% named pay scales. The US Department of Labor reports that the median salary for women was 80% of men’s. When comparing the median weekly earning of those aged 16 to 34, young women earned 91% of what young men did. Almost 60% of the women surveyed reported being negatively impacted by the current economic downturn. And 1/3 were more concerned with keeping their jobs than achieving the work-personal life balance. The US unemployment rate remains at 10%, and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office does not expect it to dip below 8% before 2012.
    Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.
    9. What is crucial for young women to define their professional success?
    10. How do most young women think about their life and job?
    11. Which of the following is a barrier to the career of young women?
    12. What can we learn about young women compared with young men?