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The work that women do has always been fundamental to the global economy. Bu

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问题     The work that women do has always been fundamental to the global economy. But their contribution hasn’t registered with traditional economic institutions because so much of it has been nonmonetary. In fact, one common economic term for nonmonetary work is inactivity. It’s that attitude that has made women’s work invisible. No wonder the battle cry of the women’s movement was equality.
    By moving into the world of paid work, in rich countries at least, women have indeed upped their visibility. But I doubt that you could make a very conclusive case that they have become equal to men. The United Nations estimated in 1993 that economic equality between the sexes would take, at the pace then prevailing, 1,000 years to achieve. The media love female high fliers, the handful of company directors and CEOs who are trotted out time and again as evidence of the gains women have made. But they are not truly representative of the average working woman, saddled with a double burden as she tries to balance her job with life as a mother and homemaker.
    This balancing act is a formula for unfulfillment. It would have been far more equitable for women in the long run if it was the nonmonetary work that had been shared out — if, for example, men spent more than a fraction of the time with their children that their wives do. And I believe that, in practice, most women would prefer simple fairness to economic equality. As my friend Hazel Henderson says, our kids didn’t want to see us turn into the best bloody men.
    Still, it’s very much a trend to focus on the global economic impact of women, particularly as it’s felt in the small-scale initiatives that women have established around the world. Dealing directly with economically marginalized communities and cooperatives around the globe, I’ve seen how women hold a society together. Economic opportunity means much more to them than money. It also fosters the fundamentals of self-esteem education, health care, cultural continuity and the chance to protect the past while shaping a future.
    A sense of community is one of the so-called "feminine" values that ethical business thinkers put forward in their quest for new paradigms. These values reflect intimate personal and cultural attributes that are in many ways the reverse of the global-market syndrome, which is all about distance, impersonality and the movement of capital regardless of human consequence. You don’t have to wonder what would happen if we could feminize economic activity and economic relations. There is already plenty of evidence in the work of some pioneering female thinkers whose concern about the society their children will inherit promises to fundamentally change global economics.
    In fact, most of the financial sector’s innovative thinking on socially responsive investing has come from women. Why am I not surprised? Globalization is a mug’s game being played in a Man’s world. I can imagine a day when compassion counts as much as cash flow. After all, the challenges that confront the business world already demand a holistic perspective. And who is going to be best equipped to face that future? [br] The expression "saddled with" in Line 10 of Paragraph 2 means______.
选项 A、let down
B、put up with
C、played up
D、burdened with
答案 D
解析 根据文章第二段最后一句“But they ale not truly representative of the average working woman，saddledwith a double burden as she tries to balance her job with life as a mother and homemaker．”可知，少数高收入女性并不能代表普通劳工女性，后者作为家庭主妇的同时还要努力平衡工作和生活的关系，因而倍感压力巨大。这个备选项含义分别为：使失望；忍受；使恼火；使负重、使烦恼。最后一项最为贴近。据此判断，答案是D。
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