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Women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the workforce for the first time, a historic reversal caused by long-term changes
Women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the workforce for the first time, a historic reversal caused by long-term changes
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2016-09-21
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Women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the workforce for the first time, a historic reversal caused by long-term changes in women’s roles and massive job losses for men during this recession.
Women held 49.83% of the nation’s 132 million jobs in June and they’re gaining the vast majority of jobs in the few sectors of the economy that are growing, according to the most recent numbers available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s a record high for a measure that’s been growing steadily for decades and accelerating during the recession. At the current pace, women will become a majority of workers in October or November.
"Women have struggled long and hard to get to this point," says labor economist Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
The change reflects the growing importance of women as wage earners, but it doesn’t show full equality, Hartmann says. On average, women work fewer hours than men, hold more part-time jobs and earn 77% of what men make, she says. Men also still dominate higher-paying executive ranks.
Women have been a growing share of the once heavily male labor force for nearly a century, recording big bumps during epoch-making events such as World War n. This time, the boost came from a severe recession that has been brutal on male-dominated professions such as construction and manufacturing.
The only parts of the economy still growing—health care, education and government—have traditionally hired mostly women That dominance has increased in part because federal stimulus funding directed money to education, health care and state and local governments.
The gender transforrnation is especially remarkable in local government’s 14.6 million-person workforce. Cities, schools, water authorities and other local legal power have cut 86,000 men from payrolls during the recession—while adding 167,000 women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Equality in workforce numbers reflects a long-term cultural change, says Maureen Honey, author of Creating Rosie the Riveter, a book about the government’s campaign to persuade women to work outside the home during World War n. "The image that the man has to be the breadwinner has changed," Honey says.
The federal stimulus funding is intended to _____.
选项
A、encourage more women to take up a career
B、help women to be confident of their career
C、finance the development of health care, education and governments
D、enable women to dominate health care, education and governments
答案
C
解析
原文第6段第2句表明联邦经济刺激资金被用在了教育、医疗和政府部门上,此外该句提到资金的流入也“在一定程度上”导致了女性对这几种行业的主导地位,由此可见,联邦经济刺激资金对女性的主导地位并不起直接的作用,也就是说,联邦经济刺激资金并不是用来帮助女性主导这些行业的,因此,本题选C。
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