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The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and
The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and
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2019-03-20
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The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and business won’t make it easier on future female leaders who choose to have children, there is still the ray of hope that increasing numbers of full-time fathers will. But based on today’s socioeconomic trends, this hope is, unfortunately, misguided.
It’s true that the number of men who have left work to do their thing as full-time parents has doubled in a decade, but it’s still very small: only 0. 8% of married couples where the stay-at-home father was out of the labor force for a year. Even that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust into their caretaker role by a downsizing. This is simply not a large enough group to reduce the social stigma(污名)and force other adjustments necessary to supporting men in this decision, even if only for a relatively short time.
Even shorter times away from work for working fathers are already difficult. A study found that 85% of new fathers take some time off after the birth of a child—but for all but a few, it’s a week or two at most. Meanwhile, the average for women who take leave is more than 10 weeks.
Such choices impact who moves up in the organization. While you’re away, someone else is doing your work, making your sales, taking care of your customers. That can’t help you at work. It can only hurt you. Women, of course, face the same issues of returning after a long absence. But with many more women than men choosing to leave the workforce entirely to raise families, returning from an extended parental leave doesn’t raise as many eyebrows as it does for men.
Women would make more if they didn’t break their earning trajectory(轨迹)by leaving the workforce, or if higher-paying professions were more family-friendly. In the foreseeable future, stay-at-home fathers may make all the difference for individual families, but their presence won’t reduce the numbers of high-potential women who are forced to choose between family and career.
What does the author say about high-potential women in the not-too-distant future?
选项
A、They will benefit from the trend of more fathers staying at home.
B、They will find high-paying professions a bit more family-friendly.
C、They are unlikely to break their career trajectory to raise a family.
D、They will still face the difficult choice between career and children.
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。文章最后一段最后一句提到,在可以预见的未来,全职父亲可能会给个体家庭带来改变,但是他们的存在并不能减少那些在工作和家庭之间被迫做选择的很有潜力的女性的数量。选项D)“女性仍然会面临家庭和事业的两难选择”是对文章意思的合理推断,故答案为D)。
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