性/别双语电子报 四月号/April:女性、职场、媒体(WOMEN, THE WORKPLACE, THE MEDIA)
四月号/April:女性、职场、媒体
(WOMEN, THE WORKPLACE, THE MEDIA)
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经过一个月的苦心编纂与译校,这一期相较于创刊号,显然更为丰富有趣了。我们试图提供更多不同面向的新闻,特别聚焦于职场与媒体两大议题,希望能稍微弥补国内新闻在性别议题关注上长久的缺席,并提供读者从国际焦点反思台湾的契机。请大家慢慢看,增进知识也增进常识喔! 杨芳枝 (国立成功大学台湾文学系教授暨性别与妇女研究中心主任) |
【本月主题一】职场女性
Facebook首席运营官 Sheryl Sandberg 注意到,相较于男性,较少百分比的女性能达到专业的顶峰 -- 并针对妇女最高管理层提供3个有力建议:
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Columbia Students Continue the Long Tradition Of Women Fighting For Labor Rights【policymic】 |
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In recent years, Columbia University has been the site of a series of ongoing labor disputes —disputes so outrageous, in fact, that the situation called for some old- fashioned grassroots organizing.
Last fall, I helped start a student activist group, Student-Worker Solidarity (SWS), when the Barnard College desk attendants and clerical workers fought along battle to secure a fair work contract with an increasingly corporate administration. This semester, SWS is spearheading a campaign to support the Faculty House dining hall workers, mostly immigrants and people of color who have seen little-to-no wage increases in the past decade, who are systematically laid off during academic breaks, and are the victims of wage theft.
As one shop leader declared to the crowd at our last rally, “We are slave laborers … we have been sitting on the back of the bus for too long. We demand to come forward.” |
近年来,哥伦比亚大学正面对一连串劳资纠纷,而此状况已达到极为恶劣的地步,需要旧式的地方基层组织来帮劳工解决状况。 去年秋天,当巴纳德学院咨询台的服务员和文书人员在和日益企业化的行政组织争取公平的工作契约时,我协助成立『学生工作团体』(SWS)来帮助他们。这学期,学生工作团体开始支持校内食堂工作人员们为争取权益而采取的抗争。这些劳工,大部分是移民和有色人种,在过去十年间,他们几乎不曾加薪,或在学校放假期间被解雇,他们是企业偷窃薪资的被害者。
就如同一个团体领导者所宣示的:「我们是奴隶劳工……长久以来,我们一直坐在巴士末端。我们要求向前走。」 |
It's More Dangerous Than Ever to Be a Female War Reporter【The Atlantic】 |
比起过去 现今女性从事战地记者是更危险的 |
Anne Sebba, a biographer and former Reuters correspondent in Rome. ……The new edition of Battling for News, Sebba's 1994 history of women reporters, is a story of women's competence in the field overcoming sexism against them.
But while she acknowledges that a lot has changed for the better, Sebba has given the new introduction to Battling for News a downbeat spin. (The book will be re-released in the UK in April.) While inherent bias in journalism has eased, changes in media technology and combat tactics have put women reporters in physical peril.
So that puts men and women under pressure. But women are targeted more, because a lot of these conflicts are now in Muslim countries, who see Western women wearing provocative--that's their word, not mine--provocative clothes, and therefore, they feel, the West has to be taught a lesson, that they're fair targets, fair game.
The other thing I've learnt is that male editors, and particularly television editors, are exploiting women. More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe--they just want to prove themselves. So they might end up in a really dangerous trouble spot without adequate preparation. And because you're hardly paid, it's often the young, inexperienced girls who are prepared to do it. And the editors are prepared to exploit them because it makes exciting news. |
安‧席拔(Anne Sebba),一名传记作者,同时也是前路透社驻罗马记者。她于1994年出版的女性报导史《Battling for News》,讲述女性记者在新闻界中如何克服性别歧视。
虽然过往她曾称,许多事情已经好转了,但在今年即将重新出版的《Battling for News》中,她却给了一个较悲观的看法。即使新闻界内部的性别歧视已经减轻了,但媒体科技与战争策略的改变,却让女性记者的身体受到毁灭的危险。
虽然男人和女人都会承受压力,但有更多压力是针对女性而来的。因为现今有许多冲突发生於穆斯林国家,而这些国家认为西方女性的衣著具有「挑逗性」,所以穆斯林国家的人认为,必须给她们一个教训,而且这是十分合理的行为。 另一件我学到的事,是男性编辑(特别是电视编辑),都会剥削女性。从媒体研究学门中毕业的女性较男性为多,她们并不晓得谁是关键人物、不了解武器、不明白何处安全而何处不安全,她们只是急著证明自己。因此,她们可能在没有足够的准备下,就被置于一个极度危险的处境中。而因为薪资微薄,通常只有年轻、经验不足的女性,才会愿意做这些事。这些编辑也乐意去剥削她们,以制造耸动的新闻。 |
Most Women Would Rather Divorce Than Be a Housewife【BlogHer】 |
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The vast majority of young people -- about 80% of women and 70% of men across all races, classes, and family backgrounds -- desire an egalitarian marriage in which both partners share breadwinning, housekeeping, and child rearing. The data come from Kathleen Gerson's fabulous 2010 book, The Unfinished Revolution
However, egalitarian relationships are difficult to establish. Both work and family are "greedy institutions,"ones that take up lots of time and energy. Many couples find that, once children arrive, it's impossible for both to do both with equal gusto.
She discovered that, while men’s and women’s ideals are very similar, their fallback positions deviate dramatically. Men’s most common fallback position is to establish a neotraditional division of labor: 70% hope to convince their wives to de-prioritize their careers and focus on homemaking and raising children. Women? Faced with a husband who wants them to be a housewife or work part-time, almost three-quarters of women say they would choose divorce and raise their kids alone. |
绝大部分的年轻人──跨越种族、阶级和家庭背景,约80%的女性和70%的男性──渴望一个平等的婚姻,双方能共同养家糊口、整理家事和教养子女。此数据出自2010年凯瑟琳‧格尔森(Kathleen Gerson)巨著《未完成的革命》(The Unfinished Revolution)。 然而,要实践平等关系是特别困难的。工作和家庭两者皆属于需要花费大量时间和精力的「贪婪的机构」。许多夫妻发现,一旦孩子出生之后,两人是不可能以平等的热情去做这两件事情的。
她发现,男性和女性的理想是相似的,但他们在一番衡量后的出路却有显著的差异。大部分男性希望建立一个新传统的分工模式:70%的男性希望说服他们的太太延后就业的优先顺序,并专心在家务和教养孩子。而女人?当丈夫希望他们身任家庭主妇同时兼职工作时,几乎四分之三的女人认为,她们宁可离婚或独自抚养小孩。 |
【本月主题二】性别与媒体
Four Reasons Gay Culture Loves Shows About Straight Older Women 【bitch media】 |
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黄金女郎或是Designing Women这类以四十岁以上熟女为主、并强调妇女自信有力的电视喜剧,向来为男同志所爱。在好莱坞的异性恋中心主义和年龄歧视运作下,我们看不到太多有关熟女的电视节目。 |
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I would posit that the very reasons gay men like these shows are the reasons we need more female characters over 40 on television (and maybe the reasons we don’t see enough of them, given the hetero-centrism and ageism of Hollywood decision-making):
一、These women are super-confident 二、They offer another side of life besides marriage and children. 三、The shows talk for real about sex. 四、They prioritized friendship. |
然而我认为,男同志之所以喜欢熟女所主演的电视剧,与我们需要更多四十岁以上女性为主角的电视节目,两者的原因是相同的。这些包括:
一、这些妇女是非常有自信的。 二、他们拥有除了婚姻和孩子的其他生活面向。 三、这些节目谈的是真的性。 四、他们以友谊为优先。 |
On the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD), 8 March, UNESCO joins forces with international and regional partners to launch the annual Women Make the News (WMN) initiative under the theme, “Towards a Global Alliance on Media and Gender”. This year’s theme is related to the Global Forum on Media and Gender (GFMG) to be held in November 2013. It is our intention to draw attention to the need for a global means, including media partnerships, to follow-up on the gender and media objectives of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
The theme of the United Nations observance of IWD 2013 is “A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence Against Women.” This theme will be one of the main topics to be addressed during the Global Forum on Media and Gender. Another key topic will be integrating media in national gender policies and strategies. |
在国际妇女节的周年场合,联合国教科文组织与全球暨区域性的伙伴,以「媒体与性别的全球论坛」为主题,发起「妇女撰写新闻」活动。今年的主题,与2013年11月举办的「媒体和性别全球论坛(GFMG)」相关。我们的用意在于找出一个适于全球性需求的方法(包含媒体的合伙关系),以此作为「北京宣言行动纲领」中性别与媒体两项目标的后续发展。 2013年联合国庆祝妇女节的主题是「确切的承诺:采取行动制止对妇女的暴力」。该主题将是媒体和性别全球讨论会的重要主题之一。其他关键课题则是将媒体整合于国家性别政治和策略当中。
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Bad girls: A history of unladylike behaviour【The Independent】 |
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Domestic and demure. Neat and sweet. Sugar and spice and all things nice… but what happens when girls go bad? It's a subject that has long fascinated, and titillated, the press, public, and politicians, from whispers over 'fallen women' in the past to drunken 'sluts' slumped in the gutter in 2013. Now a new book, Girl Trouble, by the cultural historian Carol Dyhouse, explores the history of our moral panics over rebel girls, from the late-19th century onwards.
Dyhouse found herself "more and more interested in rebel girls, bad girls, the ones who went off the rails. They're not exactly feminist, but they're representing a discontent with what's in front of them. It allows you an insight into the constraints young women have operated under. " |
驯化且端庄,干净而甜美。女孩在各方面都像糖果与香料一样美好……那如果女孩变坏了,会发生什么事情呢?从过去关于堕落女人的细语,到现今醉倒阴沟的荡妇,长久以来,这个问题始终撩拨、吸引著记者、公众、和政治家的注意。现在,新书《Girl Trouble》,由文化史学家Carol Dyhouse带读者探讨十九世纪末以来对「叛逆女孩」的道德恐慌史。 戴豪斯(Dyhouse)发现她自身对于坏女孩的研究兴趣越来越强烈。坏女孩,是一超越常规的存在,她们并非女性主义者,但她们表达对自身遭遇的种种不满。探索坏女孩,可以让你了解年轻女孩如何操作加诸她们身上的社会限制。
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【国际其他】
Women Face Fight to Keep Their Rights in Tunisia 【The New York Times】 |
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Tunisia, perceived by the West as the most secular country in the Arab world and a staunch promoter of women’s rights, has gone through a rocky transition since the revolution two years ago that ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. While political pluralism exists for the first time in decades, new freedoms for some are threatening long-cherished ones for others — in particular those for Tunisian women.
After Tunisia gained its independence from France in 1956, the government passed laws to expand women’s rights, including the right to education and gender equality. Over the following decades, Islamists were persecuted and exiled while the government pushed the secularization of society to such an extent that a decree in 1981 banned women from wearing a veil in public buildings and universities.
After the fall of Mr. Ben Ali’s regime, the Ennahda party won elections in October 2011 with a comfortable majority. Since then, worries have grown that one of its aims is to restrict women’s freedoms in a country where, until recently, those rights had been taken for granted for decades. |
被西方视为最世俗的阿拉伯国家和女性权力最坚毅的促进者──突尼西亚,自从两年前总理阿里班(Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali)被推翻后,已经经历困难重重的转变。尽管政治多元化在过去十年来首次存在,对于一些人而言,他们得来的新自由却正威胁著长久被珍惜的他人的自由──特别是那些突尼西亚妇女的自由。
自从1956年突尼斯从法国获得独立后,政府通过法律扩大妇女的权利,包括教育和性别平等的权利。接下来的几十年,当政府推动社会世俗化之际,伊斯兰主义者被受迫害和流放,例如1981年禁止妇女在公共场合和大学内戴头纱的法令。
本‧阿里政权(Mr. Ben Ali’s regime)倒台后,复兴运动党(Ennahda party)以多数票赢得2011年选战。从那时开始,人们日益担心这十年来所争取的权益将受到侵犯。
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Women Killed as ‘Witches,’ in Papua New Guinea, in 2013 【The New York Times】 |
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在巴布亚新几内亚,一名二十岁的女性被指控为女巫,在众人前其被以烧红的热铁折磨,并将其活活烧死。因为该名女性被指控拥有巫术,认为其对一位六岁男童施加巫术,最终导致男童死亡。 |
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The year 2013 or not, such violence against women is not uncommon in Papua New Guinea, where “witches” (in reality just women, often older ones) may be blamed when things go wrong, a reflection of the powerful belief in sorcery in Papua New Guinea, a Pacific nation just north of Australia. Women are often identified as witches and attacked when a man, or child, dies unexpectedly.
But there may be other reasons. As the Australian international television station Australia Network reported, in a resource-rich country undergoing a boom, accusing a woman of being a witch is an easy way to take her land.
Dame Carol Kidu, a Papua New Guinean politician, told the station: “There are other things involved nowadays, like greed, acquisition of people’s properties and land, and all sorts of things might be all be tied up in all of this, using killing the sorcerers as a reason to acquire land.”
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从以前至今,巴布亚新几内亚对妇女施暴的情况始终存在,当事情不顺遂时,往往会责难「女巫」(实际上只是女性,又通常是较年老的),这反映了巴布亚新几内亚(一个位于澳洲北方的太平洋岛国)强大的巫术信仰。当一个男人或男孩死亡时,妇女往往被视为女巫、备受攻击。
但其中或许还有其他原因。就像澳洲澳大利亚国际电视台网络的报导,在资源丰富的国家,指责女性为巫女,是夺取她们土地的简便方法。
一位巴布亚新几内亚的政治家Dame Carol Kidu认为:「有许多事情隐藏在背后,比如人性的贪婪、收购人的利益和土地获取……各式各样的原因混杂在一起,成为杀害「女巫」以获取土地的理由。」
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Indonesia's Sexual Education Revolution【The New York Times】 |
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Dozens of teenagers who had just finished a Planned Parenthood training session met with a local official in this provincial capital and questioned him about the lack of sex education in their schools. The meeting was part of a larger effort to push for legislation that would make sex education a mandatory part of Indonesia’s national curriculum.
Andreas is one of hundreds of students who have been trained as peer educators by Planned Parenthood in Yogyakarta, a province with one of the country’s most progressive reproductive rights communities. The hope is that they will pass along information about H.I.V./AIDS, contraception and sexual orientation to their classmates, most of whom learn about sex through the Internet.
Planned Parenthood in Yogyakarta has been providing sex education since 2008. More than 50 schools in Yogyakarta Province have agreed to start using the organization’s curriculum, which includes lessons about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases. The Yogyakarta curriculum has been used a loose model for the proposed national one. |
一名当地官员在这一省级特区的首府会见了数十名刚刚上完「计划生育」(Planned Parenthood)培训课的青少年,并被问及为什么他们的学校缺少性教育。这次会见是推动立法、使性教育成为印尼国家课程必修科目的一次重大努力。
安德里亚斯是日惹计划生育培训班培训的数百名将出任同辈小教育者的学生之一。作为省一级的地方特区,日惹是该国在生殖权利方面最进步的社区之一。培训专案希望他们能够将有关爱滋病毒/爱滋病、避孕和性取向等方面的资讯传递给他们的同学。在印尼,青少年大多通过网路获取性知识。 日惹计划生育组织自2008年就开始提供性教育。在省级行政区日惹,有超过50所学校已同意开始使用该组织的课程,而这其中就包括有关避孕和性传播疾病的内容。为向全国推广,日惹课程采取了一种比较宽松的模式。
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【国内专题】男女工酬
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今天(3月2号)是台湾的「同酬日」,根据劳委会的统计资料,台湾女性要比男性多工作61天,才能拿到和男性相同的待遇,台湾男女薪资水准仍然有16.6%的差距,但和先进国家相比,已经是「优等生」的水准。 |
Today (2 March) is the “Equal Pay Day” in Taiwan. According to the statistics from the Council of Labor Affairs, women in Taiwan have to work 61 days more than men in order to get the same pay. The wage gap between men and women is 16.6% in Taiwan. Compared with other developed countries, Taiwan is doing fairly well. |
相关新闻:男女同工不同酬 立委:落实平等法 |
【国内其他】
先别管印度了,你知道台湾的性侵害现况吗?(数说台湾) |
Put India Aside, Do You Know The Current Conditions of Sexual Assault in Taiwan? |
在台湾,性侵害案件数量以每年将近15%的速度成长。超过10%的受害者为男性。性侵害最常发生在当事人家里,包括被害人和加害人家里。而学校教室也是高危险地区。 |
The number of sexual assaults reaches an annual growth of 15%. More than 10% of the victims are male. The place most sexual assaults take place is in the family, either the victims’ or the offenders’ family. Another place is the classroom. |
【重要书籍/作者简介】
Beyond Bodice-Rippers: How Romance Novels Came to Embrace Feminism【The Atlantic】 |
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"Bodice-rippers," the most famous term associated with the romance genre are, according to the book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: ""typically set in the past, and the hero is a great deal older, more brutal, and more rapetastic than the heroine." The heroines were young, virginal women whose purity was of paramount importance to their worth. The rapist-turned-true-love hero was a standard character.
Bodice-rippers and their contemporary counterparts were popular during the 1970s, occupying the same cultural space as the feminist movement but seeming to represent its polar opposite. As feminists were fighting patriarchy, romance novels were propping it up. Despite a major shift in the genre in the late 1980s and early 1990s that saw the near-disappearance of rape and the emergence of much stronger, more modern heroines, the idea remains that feminists and romance readers exist on opposite ends of the spectrum. This is not the case.
Dr. Jackie C. Horne, a writer, independent scholar, and author of the site Romance Novels for Feminists, says that the women who now write romance novels grew up enjoying the benefits of the feminist movement. These authors, Horne says, "take feminist ideas that were once novel, provocative, on the very edge of inconceivable for granted, as givens." In Alice Clayton's Wallbanger and Lauren Dane's Lush, both heroines are adamant that their careers not suffer in order to make a relationship work. They negotiate long-term committed relationships with men who treat them as equals. And, as is par for the course in most romance novels, these women seek out sexual pleasure and they enjoy sex. These are not the romances of the 1970s. |
连结至浪漫史的流行词汇「Bodice-rippers」,是根据《Beyond Heaving Bosoms》此书所言:「过去的典型情节,比起女主角,男主角是年事较高、残酷的、喜爱强迫式性爱者。女主角则是年轻的、重视自我价值的处女。典型的男主角常被设定为「从强暴转为真爱」。
Bodice-rippers和其相对人物盛行于1970年代,像女权运动般占据相同文化空间,但又看似呈现其它的对立面。浪漫小说作为支持女性主义者对抗父权制度。尽管1980年代晚期至1990年代早期文类的重要转变,显示强暴几近消失、强者及更多现代女强人的出现。然而,此想法使女性主义者和浪漫小说读者保持在概念的两端。
独立学者暨作家、同时也是网站Romance Novels for Feminists的作者Dr. Jackie C. Horne认为,现今写罗曼史小说的女性,已成长到开始享受女权运动所带来的益处。Horne认为这些作家,「继承过往女性主义极为新颖、挑衅的思维,且用理所当然的优势姿态展现于书中。」在Alice Clayton的《Wallbanger》和 Lauren Dane的《Lush》中,两位女主角都坚信她们的事业与她们的感情不可偏废。她们与那些平等对待她们的男性,商议一段长期关系。而且,就像意料中的一样,这些罗曼史小说中的女性,寻求性愉悦、享受性爱。这都不似1970年代的罗曼史小说。 |
Women's Magazines Objectify Women Just as Much as Men's Magazines Do 【The Atlantic】 |
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One curious thing about popular culture is that men's magazines and women's magazines often follow the same general formula. Men's magazines are mostly based around heavily eroticized images of women. And women's magazines are also based around heavily eroticized images of women.
Still, doing the same thing for different audiences ends up not being quite the same thing after all. Esquire is providing female bodies for men. It is telling men (as the editor himself says) that female bodies are objects to be used for their enjoyment. This is a pretty common message; men are in general and in lots of ways are told, day in, day out, that the world is organized for their erotic pleasure.
Women's magazines, on the other hand, are providing female bodies for women, and telling women that (other) female bodies are objects to be used for their enjoyment. This is a much less prevalent message, and it's not hard to figure out why so many women find it so appealing. In most ways, in most of the culture, women are told that their gazes and their pleasures are secondary. In women's magazines, though, those gazes and those pleasures are paramount. Women get to be in the position of power, looking at and consuming bodies displayed expressly for them.
Men's and women's magazines, in this sense, really are different. Esquire retails yet another fantasy of mastery for men. Women's magazines, on the other hand, offer a fantasy of mastery for women. |
流行文化中有个奇怪的现象──男性杂志与女性杂志遵循著相同的公式。男性杂志基本上常围绕著充满色欲的女性图像,而女性杂志也同样如此。
不过,即使做法相同,他们毕竟不完全一样。男性之所以在杂志中提供女性的身体给男性读者,是为了告诉男人们(就像编辑者自言):女性身体是供他们享乐的客体。这是一个很常见的讯息;男人日复一日地被告知:这个世界是基于他们的性愉悦而组成的。
另一方面,女性杂志则是提供女性身体给它们的读者群,并告诉她们这些女人的身体是用来让她们享乐的客体。这个讯息很少被承认,但我们也不难理解为什么这么多女人喜欢女性杂志的女体。在大多数文化中,很多时候女性常被告知她们的目光(凝视)与快乐都是次要的;但在女性杂志中,她们的目光(凝视)与快乐却是最重要的。女性在此 因此,男性与女性杂志在这层意义上是截然不同的。「Esquire」男性杂志贩售的只是另一个让男人具有掌握权的幻想,而女性杂志,从另一方面而言,则提供女人掌握权的幻想。
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A New Book That (Finally) Tells the Truth About the Rise of WomenIt's More Dangerous Than Ever to Be a Female War Reporter【The Atlantic】 |
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The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools is both ambitious and modest in its goals: Sociologists Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann provide an ambitious analysis of why and how girls are outperforming boys in high school and going on to get a disproportionate share of college degrees. However, the authors modestly remain within their subject matter and avoid the unsupported claims about women's looming social dominance that have inflated much of the conversation about gender dynamics today.
This allows us to have a reasonable, valuable conversation about an important problem: the failure of the education system to help a majority of students to reach their academic potential. We clearly do not have a problem of over-education among women. Even among Whites alone, women as well as men are graduating college at rates lower than those in the most educationally advanced societies (which used to include the United States). Rather, we have a dysfunctional system that underperforms for men more than for women.
Although women are more likely to graduate college and get some advanced degrees than men are today, there is nothing in this trend that implies women will surpass men in overall earnings or economic (much less political) power in the foreseeable future. Further, women's educational advantage is not so great that they will overcome the labor-market advantages that men have at all educational levels. |
社会学家蒂莫西•托马斯(Thomas DiPrete)和克劳蒂亚‧布奇曼(Claudia Buchmann)所著的『女性的崛起:教育体系中日益扩大的性别鸿沟及其对美国教育的意义』,此书的目标是有野心又适度的—─他们分析在高中阶段女孩的表现为何并且如何胜过男生,同时进入大学取得学位比例的也大量超过男生。然而,作者谦虚地将问题维持在议题上,并且避免无凭据地宣称女性在社会已占主导地位。
这使得我们能以合理的方式谈论一个重要问题:美国失败的教育系统无法帮助多数学生达到其自身的学术潜力。我们不认为女性有教育过度的问题。即使在白人当中,女性和男性一样,其大学毕业的比率皆低于其他教育先进的社会(包含美国)。然而,我们拥有一个使得男性表现差于女性的不正常教育系统。
虽然在今日比起男性,女性更有可能由大学毕业并获得高等学位,但这也无法暗指将来女性工资和经济权力(更不用说政治权力)能超越男性。进一步来说,女性教育优势并非大到得以克服劳工市场的男性优势。
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发行单位:国立成功大学学务处 性别平等教育委员会/性别与妇女研究中心 |