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This week, a gaggle of girls in hot pants and miniskirts will go on a long and highly publicized strike against their employer.
This week, a gaggle of girls in hot pants and miniskirts will go on a long and highly publicized strike against their employer.
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2018-03-27
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问题
This week, a gaggle of girls in hot pants and miniskirts will go on a long and highly publicized strike against their employer. They will win their case, and in so doing, win a huge battle for working women everywhere—ushering in a new push for equal pay for women and striking a victorious blow for women’ s rights the world over. But in real life, the news isn’ t nearly that inspiring.
On Wednesday, the U.S. senate failed to end debate on the paycheck fairness act. The so-called "commonsense law" would have strengthened anti-discriminatory law put in place by the Equal Pay Act, protected employees from being fired for asking about their colleagues’ compensation, and created negotiation skills training programs for girls and women.
The American Association of University Women recently compared men and women with the same education, same grades, same kinds of jobs, and made the same life choices and found that women earn 5% less in the first year out of school. Ten years later, even if the women gave up having children, they earn 12% less. In another study, Catalyst found that female first-year MBA students earn $4,600 less than their male peers in their first job. In fact, in the 47 years since the Equal Pay Act was first adopted, the pay gap has decreased from more than 40 cents to just under 25 cents. We are literally halfway there.
The republican senators voting against the act, said the act would have been bad for business. And they have been right, but not for the stated reasons. This recession is frequently called the "mancession" and that it has led to 36% increase in the number of families depending on women’s earning in the last year alone, sure, those businesses may be saving money by paying women less, but is it really in the interest of the American public to allow them to save at the expense of families? At 77 cents on the dollar, women will lose an average of $431,000 in pay over 40 years. Those losses could have been spent wisely. When you consider that women reinvest 90% of their income into their own community and family (just 30% to 40% that men invest), the impact could have been powerful. How is that for the common sense?
From the first paragraph, we can infer_____.
选项
A、the strike may be just a kind of show
B、these girls are very fashionable
C、the strike will be successful
D、the government will support the strike
答案
A
解析
根据题干关键词定位到文章第一段。文章第一句用描述性的语言介绍一群穿热裤短裙的女孩举行罢工。作者在最后一句强调“现实生活中结果却不是那么欢欣鼓舞”, 其暗示了女性在就业平等问题上并不是那么乐观。由此可以推断出,第一段的美好场景只是一种虚幻。A项意为“罢工可能只是一种表现”,符合原文。B项“这些女孩非常时尚”、C 项“这场罢工终会成功”和D项“政府将会支持罢工”均未在文中提及,故选A。
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