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For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additional incentive to take jobs where they can find them
For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additional incentive to take jobs where they can find them
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2012-07-11
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For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additional incentive to take jobs where they can find them. Although female-dominated office and service jobs for the most part, rank lower in pay and status, "they’re still there," says June O’Neill, director of program and policy research at the institute. Traditionally, male blue-collar jobs, meanwhile, "aren’t increasing at all."
At the same time, she says, "The outlooks of young people are different." Younger men with less rigid views on what constitutes male or female work "may not feel there’s such a stigma (耻辱) to work in a female-dominated field."
Although views have softened, men who cross the sexual segregation line in the job market may still face discrimination and ridicule. David Anderson, a 36 year old former high school teacher, says he found secretarial work "a way out of teaching and into the business world". He had applied for work at 23 employment agencies for "management training jobs that didn’t exist", and he discovered that "the best skill I had was being able to type 70 words a minute".
He took a job as a secretary to the marketing director of a New York publishing company. But he says he could feel a lot of people wondering what he was doing there and if something was wrong with him.
Mr. Anderson’s boss was a woman. When she asked him to fetch coffee, he says, "The other secretaries eyebrows went up." Sales executives who came in to see his boss, he says, "couldn’t quite believe that I could and would type, take dictation, and answer the phones."
Males sometimes found themselves mistaken for higher status professionals. Anthony Shee, a flight attendant with U.S. Air Inc., has been mistaken for a pilot. Mr. Anderson, the secretary, says he found himself being "treated in executive tones whenever I wore a suit."
In fact, the men in traditional female jobs often move up the ladder fast. Mr. Anderson actually worked only seven months as a secretary. Then he got a higher level, better paying job as a placement counselor at an employment agency. "I got a lot of encouragement to advance," he says, "including job tips from male executives who couldn’t quite see me staying a secretary."
Experts say, for example that while men make up only a small fraction of elementary school teachers, a disproportionate number of elementary principals are men. Barbara Bergmann, an economist at the University of Maryland who has studied sex segregation at work, believes that’s partly because of "sexism in the occupational structure" and partly because men have been raised to assert themselves and to assume responsibility. Men may also feel more compelled than women to advance, she suspects.
What is said about David Anderson in the passage?
选项
A、People didn’t think too much of his being secretary.
B、He received encouragement and acceptance from the women secretaries.
C、He encountered some discrimination when he worked as a secretary.
D、He did the job better than other women secretaries.
答案
C
解析
文章第三段首句提到,跨越职场性别界限的男性也可能遭到歧视和嘲笑。第四段第二句提到,戴维·安德森说他做秘书时能感觉到许多人很纳闷或怀疑他有问题,故答案为[C]。他在做秘书时遭到了一些歧视,排除[A]。倒数第二段末句提到,他(安德森)说:“我得到了很多前进的鼓励,包括那些男性主管的工作建议,他们并不仅仅把我看作一名秘书”,故排除[B]。[D]在文中未提及。
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