首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Some time ago a friend who had lost his City job confessed he had considered killing himself. I was appalled but not surprised:
Some time ago a friend who had lost his City job confessed he had considered killing himself. I was appalled but not surprised:
admin
2011-04-04
120
问题
Some time ago a friend who had lost his City job confessed he had considered killing himself. I was appalled but not surprised: while men are being hit harder by the recession than women they are also seem to be showing less resilience in dealing with unemployment and economic insecurity.
The trend in male unemployment, particularly among graduates and high-skilled men, did not begin with the recession and will not end with it. Rising male unemployment has been a feature of the socioeconomic change that many western countries have experienced in the last 30 years. Forecasts predict that women will dominate the professions within 15 years. This trend alone is enough for some to claim that a "crisis of masculinity(男子气)" is on the horizon.
The emerging knowledge economy demands a new, softer skill set—empathy, sociability, confidence, resourcefulness. Women are perceived as being better at soft skills, and now they count for more. In the course of just over a decade, Demos research found, these skills became central to life chances: for those who turned 30 in 2000, such character capabilities had become 33 times more important in determining earnings.
But character can’t be taught in the classroom. Girls outperform boys at all levels of education. Between 1990 and 2004, the proportion of young women gaining two or more A-levels more than doubled, while the proportion of young men gaining this result increased much more slowly. More women than men go to university, and when they’re there, they do better: 58% of women gained first class and upper second degrees in 2006, compared to 50% of men.
It is not exactly a leap to argue that these trends are a result of the changes to GCSEs and A-levels that—with their burgeoning emphasis on project work rather than exams, on working in teams and on critical skills rather than hard facts—have benefited female students. So much so that A-levels are now being skewed(倾斜) back to favor boys, with more emphasis being put on exams rather than coursework.
So what can be done? Interestingly there may be a genuine solution. Demos research shows that boys and young men can substantially boost employability, income and wellbeing by doing apprenticeships from age 16 instead of, or as well as, A-levels.
In fact, boys who did apprenticeships earned on average 7% more by the age of 30 than those who did not— regardless of whether the non-apprentices had high academic qualifications. Boys who took apprenticeships were more confident, happy and skilled by the time they were 30 than their non-apprentice contemporaries.
Society needs to get over this obsession with A-levels as the gold standard if we want to give boys the chance to succeed in this new job environment. Rigging A-levels won’t help. They need training to help them operate in the workplace, not qualifications that prepare them to fail.
Why do some people think that "crisis of masculinity" is likely to happen soon?
选项
A、Men suffer far more than women from the recession.
B、Women will be in dominant position in workplace.
C、Rising male unemployment is a feature of the change.
D、Women outperform men in dealing with unemployment.
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键词crisis of masculinity定位到原文第二段末:Forecasts predict that women will domin8te the professions within 15 years. This trend alone is enough for some to claim that a "crisis of masculinity" is on the horizon. 可知,各项预测预言,女性将在15年内控制职场。仅此一个趋势就足以让某些人宣称“男性危机”即将到来。故选B 项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/peo7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Itisplaincommonsense—themorehappinessyoufeel,thelessunhappinessyouexperience.【C1】______,recentresearchrevealst
PartⅡReadingComprehension(SkimmingandScanning)Directions:Inthispart,youwillhave15minutestogooverthepassageq
PartⅡReadingComprehension(SkimmingandScanning)Directions:Inthispart,youwillhave15minutestogooverthepassageq
PartⅡReadingComprehension(SkimmingandScanning)Directions:Inthispart,youwillhave15minutestogooverthepassageq
Virtuallyallconsumerswillhaveacreditcardintheirlives.Selectingacreditcardshouldnotbesomethingtakenlightly,c
A、Lowerprices.B、Morechoices.C、Morecompetition.D、Morecompanies.A综合推断题。男士说美国现在有五千到一万家长途电话公司,竞争虽然是好的,但有时却让人觉得选择太多了,在八十年代早期取
A、Businessassociates.B、Bossandsecretary.C、Teacherandstudent.D、Goodfriends.A综合推断题。男士说很高兴在一起工作,希望能再次合作,女士对此表示赞同,由此推断,两人是
Ironically,intheUnitedStates,acountryofimmigrants,prejudiceanddiscriminationcontinuetobeseriousproblems.Therew
Theplaceofthechildinsocietyhasvariedforthousandsofyearsandhasbeenaffectedbydifferentculturesandreligions.
Ourlevelofhappinessthroughoutlifeisstronglyinfluencedbythegeneswithwhichwewereborn,sayexperts.AnEdinburghUn
随机试题
压力容器用钢的基本要求是有较高的强度,良好的塑性、韧性、制造性能和与介质的相容性,硫和磷是钢中最有害的元素,我国压力容器对硫和磷含量控制在()以下。
某妇女,孕36周,行产前检查,下列结果哪项异常
副霍乱病人的便是细菌性痢疾病人的便是
喹诺酮类药物影响儿童对钙离子吸收的结构因素是
A.胃肠道反应B.肌病C.神经系统疾病D.血液系统疾病E.心血管系统疾病氨基糖苷类药物引起的典型药源性疾病是()。
《UCP600》规定,标明“正本”(original)字样的单据为正本单据,须经出单人签署方为有效。标明“副本”(Copy)或不标明“正本”字样的单据为副本单据,无须签署。()
形成有文化特色、有地域特色、可识别的小城镇发展模式,是一个长期的渐进过程。我们应尊重当地实际,_________、远近结合、量力而行,不能盲目_________。在模式选择上,可以借鉴国内外小城镇建设的经验,但更重要的是结合自身实际、体现自身特色。 依
关于函数重载,下列叙述中错误的是()。
打开工作簿文件EXC.XLSX,对工作表“产品销售情况表”内数据清单的内容按主要关键字“分公司”的降序次序和次要关键字“产品名称”的降序次序进行排序,完成对各分公司销售额总和的分类汇总,汇总结果显示在数据下方,工作表名不变,保存EXC.XLSX工作簿。
Thisisanexcitingareaofstudy,andone______newapplicationsarebeingdiscoveredalmostdaily.
最新回复
(
0
)