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The work that women do has always been fundamental to the global economy. But their contribution hasn’t registered with traditio

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问题     The work that women do has always been fundamental to the global economy. But their contribution hasn’t registered with traditional economic institutions because so much of it has been nonmonetary. In fact, one common economic term for nonmonetary work is inactivity. It’s that attitude that has made women’s work invisible. No wonder the battle cry of the women’s movement was equality.
    By moving into the world of paid work, in rich countries at least, women have indeed upped their visibility. But I doubt that you could make a very conclusive case that they have become equal to men. The United Nations estimated in 1993 that economic equality between the sexes would take, at the pace then prevailing, 1,000 years to achieve. The media love female high fliers, the handful of company directors and CEOs who are trotted out time and again as evidence of the gains women have made. But they are not truly representative of the average working woman, saddled with a double burden as she tries to balance her job with life as a mother and homemaker.
    This balancing act is a formula for unfulfillment. It would have been far more equitable for women in the long run if it was the nonmonetary work that had been shared out — if, for example, men spent more than a fraction of the time with their children that their wives do. And I believe that, in practice, most women would prefer simple fairness to economic equality. As my friend Hazel Henderson says, our kids didn’t want to see us turn into the best bloody men.
    Still, it’s very much a trend to focus on the global economic impact of women, particularly as it’s felt in the small-scale initiatives that women have established around the world. Dealing directly with economically marginalized communities and cooperatives around the globe, I’ve seen how women hold a society together. Economic opportunity means much more to them than money. It also fosters the fundamentals of self-esteem education, health care, cultural continuity and the chance to protect the past while shaping a future.
    A sense of community is one of the so-called "feminine" values that ethical business thinkers put forward in their quest for new paradigms. These values reflect intimate personal and cultural attributes that are in many ways the reverse of the global-market syndrome, which is all about distance, impersonality and the movement of capital regardless of human consequence. You don’t have to wonder what would happen if we could feminize economic activity and economic relations. There is already plenty of evidence in the work of some pioneering female thinkers whose concern about the society their children will inherit promises to fundamentally change global economics.
    In fact, most of the financial sector’s innovative thinking on socially responsive investing has come from women. Why am I not surprised? Globalization is a mug’s game being played in a Man’s world. I can imagine a day when compassion counts as much as cash flow. After all, the challenges that confront the business world already demand a holistic perspective. And who is going to be best equipped to face that future?
The writer implies in the last paragraph that the persons who are going to be best equipped in world economy are______.
选项 A、university students
B、futurists
C、men
D、women
答案D
解析 根据文章最后一段内容可知，金融领域大部分具有社会责任感的投资创意都是来自于女性。作者对此一点都不意外。全球化是在一个男人的世界上演的吃力游戏。我希望有一天同情心和金钱一样重要。毕竟，商业世界面临的挑战已经需要一个全盘的视角了。那么，应该由谁来承担未来的挑战?字里行间流露着对女性的厚望。据此判断，答案是D。
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