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For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additi
For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additi
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2024-05-16
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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. [br] What can be learnt from the passage?
选项
A、Some men would not like to take blue-collar jobs because they’re too tough.
B、Although the jobs in female-dominated fields pay lower, some men still take them.
C、Men have taken jobs in female-dominated fields because these jobs pay more.
D、Only younger men have the courage to work in female-dominated fields.
答案
B
解析
文章首段第二句提到女性占主导的办公室和服务性工作的薪水较低。第二段提到,有些较为年轻的男性不觉得在女性占主导的职业领域里工作是种耻辱。再结合文中所举的男性从事秘书工作、空乘人员等事例可知,尽管女性占主导的职业薪水较低,还是有男性愿意从事这些工作,故答案为[B],同时排除[C]。首段只提到“蓝领”这类工作岗位不会增加,并未提到有些男性嫌弃“蓝领”工作辛苦,故排除[A]。第三段所举的例子David Anderson已经36岁,不年轻,故排除[D]。
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