“We are becoming the people we wanted to be,” Gloria Steinem, a journalist and social activist, declared in the 1970s. So have women really become the people they wanted to be? Yes.
One of the great changes in gender equality is taking place in education. More women graduate from high school, attend and graduate from college. In 1994, 63 percent of female high school graduates and 61 percent of male high school graduates were enrolled in college the following fall, according to the Pew Research Center. By 2012, that number for women jumped to 71 percent, but remained unchanged for males, at 61 percent.
The wage gap between males and females is still existing.
Even as more women are flooding onto college campuses, here’s a disappointing trend.
Is there any place women earn the same as men?
No. Unfortunately, there is no such place. But it can be to a woman’s advantage to work in a labor union.
Women bring home more income.
A.Education is specially significant for women. |
B.Women are taking higher education by storm. |
C.It is a fact that women climb higher in the work world now. |
D.An increasing number of women have joined the workforce. |
E.More than ever before, women are the breadwinners in the household. |
F.Today, 30 percent of all the businesses are owned and operated by women. |
G.Women who work in unionized professions make 82 percent of men’s incomes. |
In fairy tales, it's usually the princess that needs protecting. At Google in Silicon Valley, the princess is the one defending the castle. Parisa Tabriz is a 31-year-old with perhaps the most unique job title in engineering- “Google Security Princess”. Her job is to hack into the most popular web browser(浏览器)on the planet, trying to find weaknesses in the system before the “black hats” do. To defeat Google's attackers, Tabriz must firstly think like them.
Tabriz's role has evolved dramatically in the eight years since she first started working at Google. Back then, the young graduate from Illinois University was one of 50 security engineers---today there are over 500.
Cybercrime(网络犯罪)has come a long way in the past decade - from the Nigerian Prince Scam to credit card theft. Tabriz's biggest concern now is the people who find bugs in Google's software, and sell the information to governments or criminals. To fight against this, the company has set up a Vulnerability Rewards Program, paying anywhere from $100 to $ 20, 000 for reported mistakes.
It's a world away from Tabriz's computer-free childhood home in Chicago. The daughter of an Iranian-American doctor father, and Polish-American nurse mother, Tabriz had little contact with computers until she started studying engineering at college. Gaze across a line-up of Google security staff today and you'll find women like Tabriz are few and far between(稀少的)--- though in the last few years she has hired more female tech geniuses. She admits there's an obvious gender disequilibrium in Silicon Valley.
Funnily enough, during training sessions Tabriz first asks new colleagues to hack into not a computer, but a vending machine. Tabriz's job is as much about technological know-how(专门知识)as understanding the psychology of attackers.
【小题1】What can we learn about Tabriz from the passage?A.She was the first female engineer at Google. |
B.She must think differently so as to defeat the attackers. |
C.Her job relates to not only technology but also psychology. |
D.Her frequent contact with computers in childhood benefits her a lot. |
A.To protect Google against cybercrime. |
B.To monitor the normal operation of Google. |
C.To help the government locate the cybercriminals. |
D.To raise people's awareness of personal information safety. |
A.Imbalance. | B.Preference. |
C.Difference. | D.Discrimination. |
A.What leads to cybercrime |
B.The “Security Princess” who guards Google |
C.Measures taken by Google to protect its users |
D.How to become an excellent security engineer |
Unretirement: older people return to paid employment
The disappearance of 565,000 mostly older people from the UK’s labour force was one of the problematic effects of Covid. In other countries, employment levels recovered more quickly to pre-2020 levels, making the UK exceptional. But while evidence in the past few months points to a change of this trend — the rise of “unretirement” — there is no room for relief.
Government initiatives to address the issue have achieved little. The Treasury came up with the idea of “returnerships”, a variant of the skills training aimed at persuading mature people back to workplaces. But in reality this is not much more than a new label for existing training. Meanwhile, fewer than one in 20 of participants in the government’s “skills training camps” — courses intended to equip jobseekers for the opportunities in their area — are aged over 55.
Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, championed the idea of over-50s delivering takeaways, and doing other jobs more readily associated with younger workers.Age should not be a barrier to anyone willing and able to do this kind of work. But more importantly, government ministers should extend employment beyond low-wage private sector vacancies(空缺) to labour shortages in health, education and social care — where umemployment problem is serious.
Revealed in one survey, descriptions of returning to employment are highly variable.Some did so because they were struggling with the rising cost of living. Others found that they missed the company of co-workers, wanted to make a contribution to family finances or needed“a purpose in life”.
The 26.5% of adults aged 50 to 64 who are economically inactive — neither working nor seeking work — is still too high. The coexistence of high levels of economic inactivity with key worker shortages in vital areas such as teaching remains hugely problematic. But rising employment levels can be seen as part of a delayed return to normality. And Ministers still need to better target policies to encourage economically inactive 50–to 64-year-olds back to work.
【小题1】Why do the UK government plans have little effect?A.Mature people are unwilling to retire. |
B.The government lacks related equipment. |
C.The skills training isn’t essentially changed. |
D.The government doesn’t provide professional training. |
A.Strengthen association with younger workers. |
B.Widen employment opportunities. |
C.Offer diverse training courses. |
D.Predict the potential problems. |
A.Financial struggle. | B.Contribution to society. |
C.Family’s expectations. | D.Co-workers’ encouragement. |
A.A news report. | B.A book review. |
C.A scientific report. | D.A diary entry. |
I have been the senior digital producer at News Corp since August 2018. At the completion of my Bachelor’s degree in Journalism at the University of Queensland, I joined the Sunshine Coast Daily as a journalist. After five years with the paper, I moved to Yahoo7 as a news producer. In 2017, I took up a new role at SBS as its evening news editor. Then I joined News Corp.
As a content producer at News Corp, not a day is the same, which is something I love about my job as it’s never boring. It’s certainly taught me to be flexible as it includes a constant mix of reporting and producing news stories. One minute I’ll be reporting on the national or world issue of the hour, and the next I’ll be focused on making our print stories sing online.
While working hard as a digital producer, I’m sad to see readers’ unwillingness to pay for quality journalism online. There are plenty of fantastic Australian journalists working hard to bring issues to the surface, and many put their reputations on the line to do so. It’s sad that the attitude now is that news should always be free.
Of course among all the resources there’s some fake news. Fake news keeps me on my toes! I always fact-check everything — for my own work and when doing others’ job for a short time. I always take the extra five minutes to do the proper research I need. It will save me time and trouble in the long run.
Finally, a great story must be easy to read and without errors from start to finish, and have the strongest possible headline and photo to sell it. If you’ve worked hard on a story and want to make sure it’s read, think smart and spend time building it properly for online publication. If you spend hours on a story and then rush the last step, you’re wasting your time as no one will see it.
【小题1】What was the author’s first job after graduation like?A.It required lots of nighttime work. | B.It lasted for only a couple of months. |
C.It fitted in with her major at university. | D.It was concerned with digital production. |
A.She has quite flexible working hours. |
B.She has to move between different tasks. |
C.She has to report the same issues over and over. |
D.She focuses more on print stories than online stories. |
A.They should be more polite. | B.They should be more patient. |
C.They should be more thankful. | D.They should be more generous. |
A.Lets me get mad. | B.Makes me watchful. |
C.Gets myself into trouble. | D.Lets me work with others. |
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