向前一步:第223期 为平等而不懈努力(2)

 Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. 在一位女性拥有支持她的雇主和同事、家里有分担家庭责任的伴侣之前，她别无选择。

And until men are fully¹ respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either. 在一位顾家的男性赢得舆论完全的尊重前，他也别无选择。

Equal opportunity is not equal unless everyone receives the encouragement that makes seizing those opportunities possible. 除非每个人都受到鼓励去把握可能的机会，否则所谓的“平等的机会”就称不上“平等”。

Only then can both men and women achieve their full potential. 只有这样，男性和女性才能够共同发挥出自己的潜力。

None of this is attainable² unless we pursue these goals together. 这些目标只有我们一起努力才能实现。

Men need to support women and, I wish it went without saying, women need to support women too. 男人要支持女人，我希望下面这句是多此一举：女人也要支持女人。

Stanford professor Deborah Gruenfeld makes the case: "We need to look out for one another, work together, and act more like a coalition³. 斯坦福大学教授德波拉·格林费尔德说得对：“我们要在乎彼此，像一个联合体那样共同努力和行动。

As individuals, we have relatively⁴ low levels of power. 作为个人，我们的力量相对弱小；

Working together, we are fifty percent of the population and therefore have real power." 但携起手来，占人口一半的我们就会拥有真正的力量。”

As obvious as this sounds, women have not always worked together in the past. 这个道理虽好懂，但搁在过去，女性不会总是结盟。

In fact, there are many discouraging examples where women have actually done the opposite. 事实证明，有很多时候，她们的做法恰好相反。

We are a new generation and we need a new approach. 我们是新的一代，我们需要用崭新的方式改变这种状况。

In the summer of 2012, my former Google colleague Marissa Mayer was named CEO of Yahoo. 2012年夏天，我在谷歌时的同事玛丽萨·迈耶出任雅虎的首席执行官。

Like several of her friends and the Yahoo board, I knew that she was heading into her third trimester of pregnancy⁵. 她的朋友，雅虎的董事会，还有我都知道她已经进入怀孕的最后阶段。

 

1 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

2 attainable   

a.可达到的，可获得的

参考例句：

• They set the limits of performance attainable. 它们确定着可达到的运行限度。
• If objectives are to be meaningful to people, they must be clear, attainable, actionable, and verifiable. 如果目标对人们是具有意义的，则目标必须是清晰的，能达到的，可以行动的，以及可供检验的。

3 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

4 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

5 pregnancy   

n.怀孕，怀孕期

参考例句：

• Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
• Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。