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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 dismissed than thei
A mere 5% of the chief executives of the world’s biggest companies are women. And they are more likely to be dismissed than thei
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2022-06-13
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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 dismissed 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 lo outsiders; and outsiders are less likely to have a support network of friends who can rally around when times get tough.
Michelle Ryan, an organizational 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 charge 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. Carly 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.
The underlined phrase "glass cliff" (Line 2, Para. 3) refers to________.
选项
A、gender bias at work
B、a tough situation at work
C、a cliff surrounded by glass
D、a high place on the mountain
答案
B
解析
词义题。文章在glass cliff这一短语后面以冒号来解释说明,即答案提示来自该句:they get their best shot at the top job by taking charge of a firm in trouble “她们通过接管陷入困境的公司获得最高层职位”。故可以得知glass cliff“玻璃悬崖”指的是在高层管理中遇到的困境,故本题答案为B项。
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考研英语二
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