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The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and
The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and
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2019-03-20
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The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and business won’t make it easier on future female leaders who choose to have children, there is still the ray of hope that increasing numbers of full-time fathers will. But based on today’s socioeconomic trends, this hope is, unfortunately, misguided.
It’s true that the number of men who have left work to do their thing as full-time parents has doubled in a decade, but it’s still very small: only 0. 8% of married couples where the stay-at-home father was out of the labor force for a year. Even that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust into their caretaker role by a downsizing. This is simply not a large enough group to reduce the social stigma(污名)and force other adjustments necessary to supporting men in this decision, even if only for a relatively short time.
Even shorter times away from work for working fathers are already difficult. A study found that 85% of new fathers take some time off after the birth of a child—but for all but a few, it’s a week or two at most. Meanwhile, the average for women who take leave is more than 10 weeks.
Such choices impact who moves up in the organization. While you’re away, someone else is doing your work, making your sales, taking care of your customers. That can’t help you at work. It can only hurt you. Women, of course, face the same issues of returning after a long absence. But with many more women than men choosing to leave the workforce entirely to raise families, returning from an extended parental leave doesn’t raise as many eyebrows as it does for men.
Women would make more if they didn’t break their earning trajectory(轨迹)by leaving the workforce, or if higher-paying professions were more family-friendly. In the foreseeable future, stay-at-home fathers may make all the difference for individual families, but their presence won’t reduce the numbers of high-potential women who are forced to choose between family and career.
What gives women a ray of hope to achieve work-life balance?
选项
A、More men taking an extended parental leave.
B、People’s changing attitudes towards family.
C、More women entering business management.
D、The improvement of their socioeconomic status.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。由文章第一段第一、二句可知,全职父亲的增多给女性职工在工作和家庭之间进行选择的两难境地带来了一丝希望。根据常识可知,在传统的观念里,女性更多地承担家庭责任,选项B)“人们对于家庭的态度的转变”,也就是文中所述的越来越多的男性回归家庭,故答案为B)。
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