ONE by one, the glittering prizes are falling to women. General Motors, IBM, PepsiCo, Lockheed Martin and DuPont are among a couple of dozen giant American companies with female bosses. Oxford University is about to follow the footsteps of Harvard an

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

索马里将禁止女性生殖器割礼 Hope at last for girls in Somalia as the government signals its intentions to ban female genital mutilation, a brutal practice girls in Somalia have been forced to undergo for years. 长久以来,索马里的女

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Why Does Alcohol Affect Women More? Many people assume that women are more greatly affected by alcohol than men because they generally weigh less and have lower rates of drinking. While this is true,

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The Syrian government has created an all-female military unit in a mostly Kurdish city in the northeastern part of the country. It is the same city in which American-led Kurdish forces have been fighting Islamic State militants. 叙利亚政府在该国

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Women and girls living in conflict areas are frequently the targets of specific forms of violence and abuse. Thus women develop a unique perspective on the causes and effects of conflict on the population. Yet they are severely under-represented duri

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The US Treasury Department says a redesigned $10 note will feature a woman, but who she will be has not been decided. 美国财务部称,重新设计的10美元纸币上将出现女性形象,但尚未决定具体使用哪位女性。 The new note

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

We are now going through an amazing and unprecedented moment 我们现在正在经历着一个惊人的、史无前例的时刻 where the power dynamics between men and women are shifting very rapidly, 男人和女人之间的力量正在迅速地转换

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Hi, everybody. 大家好。 Earlier this week was Equal Pay Day. 本周二是同酬日。 It marks the extra time the average woman has to work into a new year to earn what a man earned the year before. 数据显示,平均而言,在新的一年里,

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In this April 18, 2011 file photo, a woman at a job fair in New York talks to an employer. For the first time, American women have passed men in gaining advanced college degrees as well as bachelor's degrees, part of a trend that is helping redefine

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Beautiful women, it seems, really do find life easier。 对美丽的女人来说,生活似乎真的更容易一些。 Whether it's in the office or in the courtroom, a new study backs up the belief that pretty women can broker deals more easily。

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Men in Britain are less engaged in their work compared with women until the final years of employment when they get a late surge of enthusiasm, according to a survey. 一项调查显示,英国男性的工作热情不如女性,直到退休时他们才

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So for any of us in this room today, 今天在座的各位, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. 我们先承认我们是幸运的。 We don't live in the world 我们没有生活在 our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, 我们母亲和

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If you test men and women, 如果你测试男性和女性, and you ask them questions on totally objective criteria like GPAs, 你问他们问题,按完全客观的标准平均成绩来算, men get it wrong slightly high, 男性会错误的高估

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Women are more likely to tolerate bad behaviour in handsome men, psychologists claim. 心理学家发现,女性往往对颜值高的男性更为宽容,更愿意原谅他们的过失。 The first impression created by physical appearance deeply in

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Women like to look their best when they leave the house, so it's no surprise that they choose their outfits carefully. What might come as a bit of a shock, however, is how long it takes - an astonishing five months over their working life. 女人喜欢

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Men with lower educational qualifications and women with higher ones are more prone to being single in China, researchers have shown. Women with a doctoral degree are often joked about as people of the third gender in China. 近日,有相关研究人

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1. Awareness 有自我保护意识 True self-defence begins long before any actual physical contact: awareness of yourself, your surroundings, and your potential attacker's likely strategies. 在遭受任何攻击前,就要早早地有真正的自卫

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Business 商业报道 Women and work 女性和工作 The glass-ceiling index 玻璃天花板指数 The bestand worstplaces to be a working woman 职场女性待遇最好和最差的国家 AS IT is International Women's Day on March 8th, The Economist

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海拉. 托马斯多特将五个传统女性价值观运用到金融服务中,成功帮助其创办的Audur Capital 金融服务公司安全渡过了肆虐的金融风暴。在TED女性系列讲坛,她分享了这些价值观并强调了男女力量

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(277) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲视频集

New research suggests that the number of children a woman could affect the rate at which her body ages, with more children leading to a slower rate of biological aging. 新的一项研究表明,女性生育孩子的数量可能会影响身体衰老的

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