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雙語職場(chǎng)：職場(chǎng)高層 “半邊天”何在
編者按：都說女性能，撐起半邊天(hold up half the sky)，網(wǎng)絡(luò)新詞“煮男”的出現(xiàn)無疑也肯定了當(dāng)今女性在社會(huì)上的地位。然而，理性的我們不難發(fā)現(xiàn)，眾多大公司的董事會(huì)上，“半邊天”的身影似乎是少之又少。究竟是女性工作能力問題，還是社會(huì)遺留的性別歧視問題在作怪?
很多人認(rèn)為，到目前為止在人類的發(fā)展史上，是歐洲人引領(lǐng)了世界。有時(shí)，即便是美國(guó)人也要向他們看齊。不久前，法國(guó)總統(tǒng)薩科奇的行為就是個(gè)不錯(cuò)的例子--他試圖立法強(qiáng)制讓公司董事會(huì)這個(gè)世上最男性化的領(lǐng)域變得性別平等。 MANY say the Europeans lead the world by far in human development, and that even the Americans can't keep up with them sometimes. French President Sarkozy has provided the latest example of this by trying to pass a law forcing gender equality in one of the most masculine areas still around in today's world: the corporate boardroom.
據(jù)英國(guó)《衛(wèi)報(bào)》報(bào)道，薩科奇的中右翼政黨建議立法，確保到2015年女性在法國(guó)高層董事會(huì)上“撐起半邊天”。該法案要求，在未來18個(gè)月內(nèi)，巴黎證交所名單上的所有公司董事會(huì)成員中女性比例達(dá)到20%，4年內(nèi)將該比例提升至40%。截止2015年，所有上述公司的董事會(huì)中，女性成員占據(jù)一半。 Britain's the Guardian newspaper has reported that Sarkozy's center-right party has proposed legislation that would see women "hold up half the sky" in France's top corporate boardrooms by 2015. The bill requires all companies listed on the Paris stock exchange to gradually implement changes that put women in 20 percent of their board seats within 18 months, and 40 percent within four years. By 2015, half of the board members in all these companies must be women.
法國(guó)的這一舉措讓世界為之震驚的同時(shí)，人們也想知道它是否能夠成功。這里還有一點(diǎn)十分重要，盡管女性在社會(huì)各領(lǐng)域都有很大的進(jìn)步，多數(shù)頂級(jí)公司仍然由男性主導(dǎo)。 The world may have been gasping over the audacity of the French bill and wondering whether it could succeed. Still, it's important to note that, despite the progress women have made in all levels of society, top businesses are mostly male-dominated.
在英國(guó)，英國(guó)金融時(shí)報(bào)100指數(shù)的公司中，女性成員僅占董事會(huì)成員總數(shù)的12%。另?yè)?jù)《衛(wèi)報(bào)》報(bào)道，1/4的公司董事會(huì)完全由男性組成。在美國(guó)的大公司中，女性所占比例僅有些微提升--《財(cái)富》500強(qiáng)公司董事會(huì)中，女性成員占15%。 In the UK, 12 percent of all board members in the top FTSE (Financial Times Stock Exchange) 100 companies are female. One in four boardrooms are exclusively male, wrote the Guardian. In the US, women are faring only slightly better at the largest companies - they hold 15 percent of board seats at Fortune 500 firms.
相比而言，北歐國(guó)家的高級(jí)女商人狀況要相對(duì)明朗。瑞典和芬蘭公司中，女領(lǐng)導(dǎo)比例分別占22%和17%。2003年，挪威成為首個(gè)立法提升公司董事局女性成員比例的國(guó)家。挪威政府要求，企業(yè)將董事局中的女性比例提升至40%，否則將面臨查封懲罰。盡管此舉引發(fā)了多人抗議，但卻成效顯著。據(jù)《衛(wèi)報(bào)》報(bào)道，目前，挪威公司董事會(huì)成員的女性比例(44%)高于世界各國(guó)。而2001年，該比例僅為6%。 By comparison, Nordic countries boast better conditions for senior businesswomen. The female director ratio in Swedish and Finnish companies is 22 and 17 percent, respectively. And Norway took the prize for the first country to boost the number of women on company boards by law, in 2003. The Norwegian government demanded that businesses increase the number of women on their boards to 40 percent, or they could suffer the punishment of being closed down. Although many protested against the move, the regulation worked. The Guardian says that Norway now has the highest proportion of women on boards anywhere in the world, at 44 percent-that's up from 6 percent in 2001.
然而，除了被剝奪在大公司坐上自己夢(mèng)寐以求職位的機(jī)會(huì)外，全球范圍的職場(chǎng)女性們還面臨一系列的其他歧視問題。 Apart from being denied the opportunity to occupy coveted seats at the biggest companies, businesswomen around the world face a whole range of other discriminative problems.
美國(guó)社會(huì)學(xué)家、"Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street "一書作者Louise Marie Roth舉例說明了華爾街極度的性別不平等現(xiàn)象。她跟蹤記錄了76位畢業(yè)于一流商業(yè)學(xué)校男女的職業(yè)發(fā)展。20世紀(jì)90年代，他們一起在大型投資公司起步。然而，到1997年，女性薪酬數(shù)量?jī)H占男性的60.5%。 Louise Marie Roth, an American sociologist and author of "Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street", illustrated the extreme gender inequality on Wall Street. She followed the career development of 76 male and female grads of top business schools. They all began work at big investment firms in the early 1990s. By 1997, the women were earning only 60.5 percent of what the men did.
另一位美國(guó)教授Linda Babcock發(fā)現(xiàn)，要求提薪的女性職工會(huì)被鄙視，甚至遭到處罰。而相同形勢(shì)下，男同事得到的對(duì)待顯然要親切得多。其他調(diào)查顯示，因工作發(fā)怒的男性一般會(huì)得到尊敬，而同樣的事情發(fā)生在女性身上就成了“失控”。 Linda Babcock, another American professor, notes that women are looked down on, and even punished, for asking for a pay raise. Meanwhile, their male colleagues are much more favorably treated in similar situations. Other studies show that men who get angry at work are more likely to be respected for it, while women who do so are seen as being "out of control".更多信息請(qǐng)?jiān)L問：http://www.24en.com/
因此，為遏制職場(chǎng)如此猖獗的性別歧視現(xiàn)象，很多政府已經(jīng)出臺(tái)法律法規(guī)幫助女性得到平等對(duì)待。 To combat such rampant discrimination in business, various governments have passed laws and regulations to help put women on a more equal footing.
1963年，盡管強(qiáng)制實(shí)行面臨很大困難，美國(guó)仍發(fā)布了薪資平等法，禁止雇主由于性別原因給予不同工資待遇。2006年，歐盟采用歐洲社會(huì)憲章的日常生活中男女平等制度，要求男女平等是一項(xiàng)基本權(quán)利，“性別成見及其產(chǎn)生的觀點(diǎn)和假設(shè)都必須消除”。 The US introduced the Equal Pay Act (EPA) in 1963, to "prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers", although enforcing it may be hard. In 2006, the European Union adopted The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life. The charter says that equality between women and men is a fundamental right, and that "gender stereotypes and the attitudes and assumptions that arise from them must be eliminated."
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