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  3. 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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问题     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.
Why does the author say the hope for more full-time fathers is misguided?
选项 A、Women are better at taking care of children.
B、Many men value work more than their family.
C、Their number is too small to make a difference.
D、Not many men have the chance to stay at home.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。文章第一段最后一句提到了misguided一词，接着第二段第一句提到，近十年里放弃工作成为全职父亲的人数翻倍的确是事实，但是这个数字仍然很小，该句是解释这种希望是被误导的原因。选项C)“这个数字太小以至于产生不了什么影响”，是原文的同义转述，故答案为C)。
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