女性爲何總成不了社會精英?

Woman still want to ‘marry up’ and naturally choose husbands who earn more than themselves, a report suggests. The idea of most women wanting to be financially independent is a myth, according to Catherine Hakim of the London School of Economics. Despite years of equality campaigning, more women are choosing to marry wealthy men than in the 1940s, the expert claims.
　　如今職場上的戰爭愈發顯示出“巾幗不讓鬚眉”的態勢，一浪又一浪的女強人們把數以萬計的男性同胞們“踩在腳下”，她們不僅擁有了自己的一片天，還希望在另一半的天空裏描上一筆！雖然女性同胞們希望經濟獨立，驕傲自身日益升高的社會地位，但是根據科學調查，女性其實在與男性相處過程中，特別是“擇偶”過程中，並不希望經濟獨立，反而希望另一半比自己掙得多些，讓自己有可以依賴的感覺。

In her report, published by the Centre for Policy Studies think tank, she suggests men dominate the top positions because women simply do not want careers in business. She criticised David Cameron for backing the idea of quotas to ensure that leading companies appointed more women to their boards. ‘Women’s aspiration to marry up, if they can, to a man who is better-educated and higher-earning persists in most European countries,’ she said. ‘Women thereby continue to use marriage as an alternative or supplement to their employment careers.’

在調查中，有專家說：“女性不願意將自己的職業當作自己生活的最重目標，這恰恰解釋了爲什麼在最專業的領域，往往主導者都是男性，精英還是男人居多的無奈現實！”專家還駁斥了英國首相卡梅倫爲了“取悅”女性選民而倡導提供更多職位給女性的建議，專家很不屑，說道：“女人一般能嫁則嫁，嫁一個教育程度良好、經濟條件優越的願望是在歐洲絕大多數國家女性同胞們共有的夢想！”此外，專家還透露，大多數的職場女性都是“身不由己”，只是把自己的職業充當婚姻的一個“附屬品”，她們沒把事業看得太重。

The research, which drew on existing data drawn from Britain and Spain, showed that 20 per cent of British women married husbands with a significantly better education than their own in 1949. By the 1990s, the percentage of women deciding to ‘marry up’ had climbed to 38 per cent – with a similar pattern repeated in the rest of Europe, the US and Australia. The report concluded that equal roles in the family, where husband and wife shared employment, childcare and housework, was ‘not the ideal sought by most couples’.

調查針對英國和西班牙的女性，相比1949年的情況做了對比，有20%的英國女人嫁給了教育水平比自己高的男人，這種“不平等”的狀況比1949年時要嚴重得多！一直到1990年，數據顯示，企圖依靠婚姻來改變自己命運的女性同胞佔到了總人數的38%，這個數字與在美國以及澳大利亞等國家的地區相似。難道追求男女平等是一句空話？還是女人潛意識裏還是認爲自己“需要”比男人弱小呢？報告總結，其實在家庭生活中，兩性角色的“絕對平等”不可能出現，因爲夫婦兩人不可能在職業、育兒以及家務等家庭瑣事上保持平等性。也許，不平等纔是造就了家庭和諧的原因呢！