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When young women were found to make only 82 percent of what their male peers
When young women were found to make only 82 percent of what their male peers
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2023-06-26
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When young women were found to make only 82 percent of what their male peers do just one year out of college, many were at a loss to explain it.
All the traditional reasons put forward to interpret the pay gap—that women fall behind when they leave the workforce to raise kids, for example, or that they don’t seek as many management roles— failed to justify this one. These young women didn’t have kids yet. And because they were just one year removed from their undergraduate degrees, few of these women yet had the chance to go after(much less decline)leadership roles.
But there are other reasons why the pay gap remains so persistent. The first is that no matter how many women may be getting college degrees, the university experience is still an unequal one. The second is that our higher education system is not designed to focus on the economic consequences of our students’ years on campus.
Now that women are the majority of college students and surpass men in both the number of undergraduate and advanced degrees awarded, one might think the college campus is a pretty equal place. It is not. Studies show that while girls do better than boys in high school, they start to trail off during their college years. They enroll in different kinds of classes, tend to major in less rigorous(非常严格的)subjects, and generally head off with less ambitious plans.
As a result, it’s not surprising that even the best educated young women enter the workplace with a slight disadvantage. Their college experience leaves them somewhat confused, still stumbling(栽倒)over the dilemmas their grandmothers’ generation sought to destroy. Are they supposed to be pretty or smart? Strong or sexy(性感的)? All their lives, today’s young women have been pushed to embrace both perfection and passion—to pursue science and sports, math and theater—and do it all as well as they possibly can. No wonder they are not negotiating for higher salaries as soon as they get out of school. They are too exhausted, and too scared of failing. [br] What does the author say about women students in college?
选项
A、They have no idea how to bring out their best.
B、They drop a course when they find it too rigorous.
C、They are not as practical as men in choosing courses.
D、They don’t perform as well as they did in high school.
答案
D
解析
语义理解题。文章第四段详细论述了大学中男女学生的不同经历。其中,该段第三句中的词组trail off有“渐渐减弱”的意思,在句中是指女生到了大学后走下坡路,表现不如在高中时期,由于这个词组较难,也可以通过句中的while判断出下一句为转折关系,从而推测女生在大学的表现变差,故答案为D)。
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