VOA标准英语2012--Women's Rights Activists Encouraged by New French President
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(五月)
Women's Rights Activists 1 Encouraged by New French President
The easy part of Olivia Cattan's day ends at lunchtime, when she leaves her work as a pre-school assistant and starts her other job as a journalist and founder 2 of the feminist 3 organization "Paroles de Femmes," or "Words of Women."
Cattan has advised France's new President, Francois Hollande, on women's issues and Mr. Hollande's cabinet includes an equal number of male and female ministers.
It also includes a new ministry 4 of women's rights, headed by 34-year-old Najat Vallaud Belkacem.
Cattan says those are promising 5 first steps.
"It's a fantastic gesture for Mr. Hollande. It's like a page has been turned. It's the first parity 6 government in France. He's really turned a page in terms of French feminism," Cattan said.
France also has a new, unmarried "first partner," journalist Valerie Trierweiler, who accompanied Hollande on his first official visit to the United States.
"It [the partnership] shows that you don't have to get married to live with someone. We have the right to choose the kind of lives we want," Cattan said.
Women's issues have been in the spotlight 7 in France for other reasons - notably 8 for the sex-scandal allegations dogging former International Monetary 9 Fund chief and French politician, Dominique Strauss Kahn.
Economics and minority rights professor Anne Boring says the Strauss-Kahn scandal has shaken the society.
"Now women are more willing to say what has happened to them or to denounce violence against women," Boring said.
On the streets of Paris, the French appear to be pleased with women's new assertion in political life.
Among them, 40-year-old businessman, Jean-Michel Bambois.
"It's good not to differentiate 10 between women and men. What counts is their competency," he said.
Theater director Nadia Vonderheyden also praises recent changes, including the elimination 11 of the term "Mademoiselle," or "Miss," from French government documents.
"Things are beginning to reflect, just a tiny bit, the reality in French society, which wasn't the case before," she said.
But Professor Boring says women must still fight to get ahead.
"France is a country where women are still discriminated 12 against in the workplace and salaries of women [with] similar qualifications are much lower than the salaries of men," she said.
Rights activists like Olivia Cattan say they will be watching closely to make sure France's new government makes good on its promises of promoting women's equality.
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
- According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
- She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
- From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
- We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
- The two currencies have now reached parity.这两种货币现已达到同等价值。
- Women have yet to achieve wage or occupational parity in many fields.女性在很多领域还没能争取到薪金、职位方面的平等。
- This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
- The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
- Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
- A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。
- The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
- Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
- You can differentiate between the houses by the shape of their chimneys.你可以凭借烟囱形状的不同来区分这两幢房子。
- He never learned to differentiate between good and evil.他从未学会分辨善恶。
- Their elimination from the competition was a great surprise.他们在比赛中遭到淘汰是个很大的意外。
- I was eliminated from the 400 metres in the semi-finals.我在400米半决赛中被淘汰。
- His great size discriminated him from his followers. 他的宽广身材使他不同于他的部下。
- Should be a person that has second liver virus discriminated against? 一个患有乙肝病毒的人是不是就应该被人歧视？