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Europe is not a gender-equality heaven. In particular, the corporate workplace will never be completely family-friendly until wo
Europe is not a gender-equality heaven. In particular, the corporate workplace will never be completely family-friendly until wo
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2018-04-19
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Europe is not a gender-equality heaven. In particular, the corporate workplace will never be completely family-friendly until women are part of senior management decisions, and Europe’ s top corporate-governance positions remain overwhelmingly male. Indeed, women hold only 14 percent of positions on European corporate boards.
The Europe Union is now considering legislation to compel corporate boards to maintain a certain proportion of women—up to 60 percent. This proposed mandate was born of frustration. Last year, Europe Commission Vice President Viviane Reding issued a call to voluntary action. Reding invited corporations to sign up for gender balance goal of 40 percent female board membership. But her appeal was considered a failure: only 24 companies took it up.
Do we need quotas to ensure that women can continue to climb the corporate ladder fairly as they balance work and family?
"Personally, I don’t like quotas," Reding said recently. "But I like what the quotas do." Quotas get action: they "open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling," according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.
I understand Reding’s reluctance—and her frustration. I don’t like quotas either: they run counter to my belief in meritocracy, governance by the capable. But, when one considers the obstacles to achieving the meritocratic ideal, it does look as if a fairer world must be temporarily ordered.
After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top positions—no matter how much "soft pressure" is put upon them. When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.
If appropriate pubic policies were in place to help all women—whether CEOs or their children’ s caregivers—and all families, Sandberg would be no more newsworthy than any other highly capable person living in a more just society.
Women entering top management become headlines due to the lack of______.
选项
A、more social justice
B、massive media attention
C、suitable public policies
D、greater "soft pressure"
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据关键词定位到第六、七段。第六段举了Sandberg的例子,最后一句说,她们之所以会引起关注是因为她们还是规则中的例外。第七段末尾说如果存在合适的公共政策来帮助所有的女性,Sandberg也就没有新闻价值了,因此答案为C,妇女进入高层成为新闻是因为她们缺乏“合适的公共政策”。A项“更多的社会正义”原文未提及。B项“广泛的媒体关注”和D项“更多的‘软压力’”均与原文不符。
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