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Wow! Women now make up 57 per cent of university entrants, and they outnumber men in every subject — including maths and enginee
Wow! Women now make up 57 per cent of university entrants, and they outnumber men in every subject — including maths and enginee
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2014-02-27
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Wow! Women now make up 57 per cent of university entrants, and they outnumber men in every subject — including maths and engineering. Speaking as an ardent feminist, I expect that this will have many wonderful results: a culture that is more feng shui and emotionally literate and altogether pieor and an economy that benefits from unleashing the phenomenal energy and critish women who are — if GCSEs, A-levels and university entrance results mean anything — currently giving the male sex a good old intellectual whipping.
Obviously a corner of my heart worries about some aspects of the coming feminisation. Will we all become even more safety-conscious, regulation-prone and generally incapable of beating the Australians at anything than we already are? And even if the feminist revolution is good and unstoppable, we should perhaps consider some of the downsides — and the most interesting is that greater equality between the sexes is actually leading to greater division between the classes. Here’s how.
Since the emergence of our species, it has been a brutally sexist feature of romance that women on the whole — and I stress on the whole — will want to mate with men who are either on a par with themselves, or their superior, in socio-economic and intellectual attainment. A recent study shows that if a man’s IQ rises by 16 points, his chances of marrying increase by 35 per cent; if a woman’s IQ rises by 16 points, her chances of getting hooked decline by the same amount.
As a result of the same instinct — female desire to procreate with their intellectual equals — the huge increase in female university enrolments is leading to a rise in what the sociologists call assortative mating. The more middle-class graduates we create, the more they seem to settle down with other middle-class graduates, very largely because of the feminine romantic imperative already described. The result is that the expansion of university education has actually been accompanied by a decline in social mobility, and that is because these massive enrolments have been overwhelmingly middle-class.
It is one of the sad failures of this government that relatively few bright children from poor backgrounds have been encouraged to go to university, partly because of weaknesses in primary and secondary education, partly because of the withdrawal of the ladder of opportunity provided by academic selection. Once they have failed to go to university, the boom in the number of middle-class female students only intensifies their disadvantages.
The result is that we have widening social divisions, and two particularly miserable groups: the female graduates who think men are all useless because they can’t find a graduate husband, and the male non-graduates who feel increasingly domineered by the feminist revolution, and resentful of all these proud female graduates who won’t give them the time of day.
The passage is mainly concerned with______.
选项
A、sexual inequality in education
B、female dilemma in mating
C、social prejudice against women
D、expansion in college enrolment
答案
B
解析
文章关注“女性”和“女性的婚姻”,所以B合理。选项A的定语“education”不是文章的要点,只是局部的信息。选项C中的“社会偏见”也没有依据。选项D只是文章开头呈现主题的“引子”,不是主题本身。
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