TED演讲:女性崛起的新数据(6)

 If you read management books now, a leader is somebody who can foster¹ creativity, 如果你现在读管理类的书，领导是那种可以激发创造力，

who can get his -- get the employees -- see, I still say "his" --  可以令他的--员工们--看吧，我仍然说“他的”--

who can get the employees to talk to each other,  让员工们相互交谈，

who can basically build teams and get them to be creative.  可以组建团队并令他们拥有创造力的人。

And those are all things that women do very well.  女性可以将所有这些事情做的非常的好。

And then on top of that, that's created a kind of cascading² effect.  再加上，（她们）创造了一种级联效应。

Women enter the workplace at the top, and then at the working class, 女人进入工作场所的上级，然后在工薪阶层，

all the new jobs that are created are the kinds of jobs that wives used to do for free at home. 所有被创造的新工作曾是主妇们在家里做的免费的工作。

So that's childcare, elder care and food preparation. 也就是照看小孩，照顾老年人和准备食物。

So those are all the jobs that are growing, and those are jobs that women tend to do. 这些工作正在增加，这些工作也正是女人们愿意去做的。

Now one day it might be that mothers will hire an out-of-work, 有一天妈妈们将雇佣一名失业的，

you know, middle-aged³, former steelworker guy to watch their children at home, 中年、曾为造铁工人的男人在家里照看他们的小孩，

and that would be good for the men, but that hasn't quite happened yet.  这对男人也有好处，但是这至今还没有发生。

To see what's going to happen, you can't just look at the workforce⁴ that is now,  想知道发生了什么，你不能仅观察现在的工作情形，

you have to look at our future workforce.  你需要观察未来的工作情形。

And here the story is fairly simple.  这其实很简单。

Women are getting college degrees at a faster rate than men. 女人们正在以一个比男人们更快的速度获得大学学位。

Why? This is a real mystery.  为什么？这的确不可思议。

I mean, people have asked men, why don't they just go back to college,  人们问男人，为什么不回到大学，

to community college, say, and retool⁵ themselves, learn a new set of skills? 回到社区大学，重组自己，学一些新的技术。

Well it turns out that they're just very uncomfortable doing that.  事实上他们对此感到十分的不舒服。

They're used to thinking of themselves as providers,  他们习惯于认为他们是提供者，

and they can't seem to build the social networks that allow them to get through college. 他们似乎看起来不能建立社会关系网来允许他们完成大学。

So for some reason men just don't end up going back to college. 因此，男人最终不能返回学校。

1 foster   

vt.收养，培养，促进；adj.收养的，收养孩子的

参考例句：

• Nowadays young couple sometimes foster.现今年轻夫妇有时领养别人的孩子。
• The captain did his best to foster a sense of unity among the new recruits.队长尽力培养新成员之间的团结精神。

2 cascading   

流注( cascade的现在分词 )； 大量落下； 大量垂悬； 梯流

参考例句：

• First of all, cascading menus are to be avoided at all costs. 首先，无论如何都要避免使用级联菜单。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Her sounds began cascading gently. 他的声音开始缓缓地低落下来。

3 middle-aged   

adj.中年的

参考例句：

• I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
• The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。

4 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

5 retool   

v.改组，重新装备

参考例句：

• Each time the product changes,the machines have to be retooled.每次更换产品，就得重新装备机器。
• In the computer industry,engineers have to retool frequently.在电脑业中，工程师必须经常以新知识充实装备自己。