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A mere 5% of the chief executives of the world’s biggest companies are women. And they are more likely to be sacked than their m

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问题     A mere 5% of the chief executives of the world’s biggest companies are women. And they are more likely to be sacked than their more numerous male colleagues: 38% of the female CEOs who left their jobs over the past ten years were forced to go, compared with 27% of the men. This is the latest finding from the research on the top management at the world’s 2,500 largest public companies.
    A clue as to why women are more likely to be fired than men is provided by another statistic in the study: 35% of female CEOs are hired from outside the company, compared with just 22% of male ones. Outsiders generally have a higher chance of being kicked out, and generate lower returns to shareholders. Businesses that are already troubled are more likely to turn to outsiders: and outsiders are less likely to have a support network of friends who can rally around when times get tough.
    Michelle Ryan, an organisational psychologist at the University of Exeter in England, says women face nothing less than a "glass cliff" : they get their best shot at the top job by taking the helm of a firm in trouble. In practice, outsiders of either sex face the same plight. But since women are still fairly exotic creatures in the C-suite, they attract disproportionate publicity when they hit problems. Carry Fiorina, dropped as HP’s boss in 2005, made things worse by inviting such publicity. But the same is not true of, say, Ginni Rometty, the lower-profile boss of IBM, who is under fire over the firm’s performance.
    The new research is not entirely pessimistic. Over the past ten years the balance of incoming versus outgoing female CEOs, as a proportion of all changes of boss, has risen significantly. It is predicted that women will make up as many as a third of incoming CEOs by 2040. It appears that the demand for female bosses exceeds supply, hence firms are willing to bring them in from outside. This points to an obvious solution: companies should work harder on creating a pipeline of female future CEOs. This would reduce both the pressure to raid rival firms and the chances of women failing when they at last reach the top.
According to Paragraph 2, if a firm is in a plight, it tends to______.
选项 A、kick outsiders out of the company
B、call for support from outsiders
C、turn to shareholders for help
D、fire female CEO at once
答案A
解析 根据题干定位到第二段。题干中的if a firm is in a plight“如果一家公司陷入困境”=该段第三句的businesses that are already troubled“已经有麻烦的企业”，而tends to=原文中的more likely to，故答案为下文的turn to outsiders“将矛头指向局外人”，即选项[A]kickoutsiders out of the company为本题答案。
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