2015考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：The daughter also rises

　　A woman’s place is in the boardroom

　　女性在董事会的位置

　　All this might sound a bit namby-pamby to pioneers like Sister Dong (who says that she hasn’thad a holiday for 20 years) and Zhang Yin (who boasts that: “My success came from mycharacter”). But namby-pambyism is a sign of progress. Heroines who build empires out ofsweat and determination are rare in any culture. (As, indeed, are heroes.) Rapid growth inemerging markets is pulling more women into corporate life. And as they show their mettle,patriarchal attitudes are beginning to dissolve.

　　对于董姐和张茵这样的先锋来说，这一切也许显得婆婆妈妈。董姐说她20年没有过过一次节日;张茵则自豪地说：“我的成功源于我的性格。”但这些“婆婆妈妈”却是进步的标志。那些从汗水和决心中建立起一个帝国的女英雄们在任何一个文化中都是凤毛麟角。(当然，男英雄们也一样。)新兴市场的快速发展正促使更多的女性投入到职场生活中去。当她们显示出她们的勇气和耐力时，男权观念就会逐渐烟消云散。

　　Young, middle-class women are overtaking their malepeers when it comes to education. In the United ArabEmirates 65% of university graduates are female. InBrazil and China the figures are 60% and 47%respectively. In Russia 57% of college-age womenare enrolled in tertiary education; only 43% of menare. Business schools, those hothouses ofcapitalism, are feminising fast. Some 33% ofstudents at the China Europe International BusinessSchool (CEIBS) in Shanghai and 26% at the IndianSchool of Business are female, a figure comparablewith those of Western schools such as the Harvard Business School and INSEAD.

　　在教育方面，新一代的中产阶级女性也正在超越她们的男性同辈们。在阿拉伯联合酋长国，65%的大学毕业生是女性。在巴西和中国，该数据分别是60%和47%。在俄罗斯，57%的大学年龄女性正在接受高等教育;而男性仅有43%。资本主义的温室——各个商学院也正在迅速“女性化”。上海中欧国际工商管理学院33%的学生是女性，印度商学院26%为女性，这样的数据可与一些西方学校并驾齐驱，如哈佛商学院和欧洲工商管理学院。

　　In “Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution”, Sylvia AnnHewlett and Ripa Rashid point out that businesswomen face steep obstacles in emergingmarkets. How can they stay on the fast track if, as in the UAE, they cannot travel without amale chaperone? And how can they be taken seriously if, as in Russia, the term“businesswoman” is synonymous with prostitute? In every emerging market women bear thelioness’s share of family responsibilities. In many places, deals are sealed with booze and malebonding.

　　在《赢取新兴市场中的人才：为什么女性是关键》一书中，西尔维娅.安.休利特和里帕.拉希德指出，新兴市场中的女商人面临着严峻的考验：在阿联酋，没有男人陪伴女人不能出行，这样她们怎么在职场平步青云?在俄罗斯，“女商人”就是妓女的近义词，这样她们怎么能让自己受到重视?在每一个新兴世界里，女性承担着绝大部分的家庭责任。而且在许多地方，生意场上的协议都是靠酒席和男子间的兄弟情谊达成的。

　　The workload for tiger businesswomen can be crushing. Rapid growth means exhaustingchange. Having customers in different time zones, as global Asian firms often do, makes itworse. More than a quarter of the female high-fliers surveyed by Ms Hewlett and Ms Rashidreport working between eight and 18 hours more each week than they did three years ago. Andhorrible commutes are common. In IBM’s ranking of the world’s worst commutes, Beijing andMexico City each scored 99 out of a possible 100 pain points. New Delhi, Moscow and São Pauloalso did appallingly. Female commuters often have to put up with leering, groping men,particularly if they work late: 62% of Brazilian women say that they feel unsafe travelling towork.

　　新兴市场的女商人们承受着巨大的工作负荷。经济的快速增长意味着让人筋疲力尽的变化。拥有在不同时区内的客户则让情况更加糟糕，而在亚洲的跨国公司往往就是这样。在休利特和拉希德调查的女性“野心家”中，超过四分之一的人称她们现在比三年前每周多工作8至18个小时。并且上下班往返通常是件很烦人的事。IBM进行过一个“世界最糟糕上下班交通”排名，其中北京和墨西哥城各得99分(100分制)。新德里，莫斯科和圣保罗也“成绩斐然”。在上下班途中，女性还得常常忍受男人们调戏的目光和动作，尤其是在下班很晚的时候。62%的巴西女性称在上下班的路途中感觉不安全。

　　Still, young women have no shortage of high-profile role models, from Indra Nooyi, the Indian-born boss of PepsiCo, to Dong Mingzhu, the author of one of the bestselling business books inChina. In “Regretless Pursuit”, Sister Dong, as her fans call her, recounts her rise fromsaleswoman to boss of Gree Electric, the country’s biggest manufacturer of air-conditioners.

　　然而，年轻女性们不乏备受瞩目的榜样们，不管是英德拉.诺伊——印度出生的百事老总，还是董明珠——一本中国畅销商业图书的作者。在《行棋无悔》中，董姐(她的粉丝这样称呼她)回顾了她从一名销售人员做起，一直做到格力电器老总的经历。格力电器是中国最大的空调生产商。

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