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This should be a season of celebration.After all, by many measures, there’s never been a better time to be a woman. In places like Scandinavia andBritain, a third or more of all corporate managers are now women. The number of female executive directors of FISE、100 companies nearly doubled from 2000 to 2004. LatinAmerica has seen a 50 percent jump in the number of women politicians in the last decade. Japan voted 26 new female parliamentarians into office this year. Of course, the jewel in the equal-opportunity crown was this fall’s election ofAngela Merkel -- once nicknamed "the Girl" by Helmut Kohl -- to Germany’s highest office.
But as always, statistics tell a multifaceted story. Sure, it’s no longer an anomaly to have a femaleCEO -- but there are still only 17 female executive directors in the largest FTSE、100 companies. In theEU Parliament, only 23 out of 162 members are female. InBritain, studies show that women have never been more dissatisfied with the workplace. No wonder: theEU pay gap between men and women shrank only one point in the last couple of years, to 17.5 percent.
So where does all this leave us With some big challenges that require more female leadership to solve.At some major companies -- including Shell andBritish Telecom -- women are combating the old-boys’ club atmosphere by starting their own networks, linking top female leaders with up-and-comers they can mentor. Labor flexibility is also on the agenda; in parts ofEurope, top female legislators have fought to give employees with children or elderly parents the right to ask for adjustable hours. Perhaps most important, there is an increasingly vibrant debate around work-life balance. Study after study shows that it is a working woman’s second full-time job -- as caregiver -- that makes it most difficult for her to stay on the career ladder. While extra benefits and longer maternity, leave can help, they aren’t a complete solution.
Clearly, some out-of-the-box thinking is requireD、And that’s where women come in. In countries likeCameroon,Bolivia and Malaysia, greater numbers of women in public office have resulted in less spending on the military and more on health, education and infrastructure. Norway’s woman-heavy Parliament recently passed a law mandating that 40 percent of directors on corporate boards be women.And in Germany, the archetypal outsider -- a woman who grew up on the wrong side of the IronCurtain -- will likely take the helm in a country with virtually no other women in top positions of power. No longer "the Girl" but poised to become the chancellor, Merkel is a symbol of how far women have come -- and the work that remains to be done.
B．in Germany, there are now some female leaders, including Merkel.
C．Merkel becomes a chancellor because she is no longer a girl.
D．it does need a lot to become a female chancellor in Germany.
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
推理判断题。由...the archetypal outsider-a woman...可以推断出，在德国，妇女不经常参与政治，排除[A]；而从最后一句中的...take the helm in a country with virtually no other women in top positions of power可以推断，在德国，目前没有其他的女领导人，所以排除[B]，同时肯定[D]；在文章第二段的末尾提到girl是Merkel的绰号，文中也没有提到Merkel因为不是一个girl才成为领导的，所以排除[C]项。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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