首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
When Donald Olayer enrolled in nursing school nine years ago, his father took it hard. "Here’s my father, a steelworker, hearing
When Donald Olayer enrolled in nursing school nine years ago, his father took it hard. "Here’s my father, a steelworker, hearing
admin
2009-06-24
59
问题
When Donald Olayer enrolled in nursing school nine years ago, his father took it hard. "Here’s my father, a steelworker, hearing about other steelworkers’ sons who were becoming welders or getting football scholarships", Mr. Olayer recalls. "The thought of his on becoming a nurse was too much".
66.______
That’s not an unusual turnabout nowadays. Just as women have gained a footing in nearly every occupation once reserved for men, men can be found today working routinely in a wide variety of jobs once held nearly exclusively by women. The men are working as receptionists and flight attendants, servants, and even "Kelly girls".
The Urban Institute, a research group in Washington, recently estimated that the number of male secretaries rose 24% to 31,000 in 1978 from 25,000 in 1972. The number of male telephone operators over the same span rose 38%, and the number of male nurses 94%. Labor experts expect the trend to continue.
For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additional incentive to take jobs where they can find them. Although female-dominated office and service jobs for the most part rank lower in pay and status, "they’re still there", says June O’Neil, director of program and policy research at the institute. Traditionally male blue-collar jobs, meanwhile, "aren’t increasing at all".
67.______
Although views have softened, men who cross the sexual segregation line in the job market may still face discrimination and ridicule. David Anderson, a 36-year-old former high school teacher, says he found secretarial work "a way out of teaching and into the business world". He had applied for work at 23 employment agencies for "management training jobs that didn’t exist", and he discovered that "the best skill I had was being able to type 70 words a minute".
68.______
He took a job as a secretary to the marketing director of a New York publishing company. But he says he could feel "a lot of people wondering what I was doing there and if something was wrong with me".
Males sometimes find themselves mistaken for higher-status professionals. Anthony Shee, a flight attendant with U.S. Air Inc., has been mistaken for a pilot. Mr. Anderson, the secretary, says he found himself being "treated in executive tones whenever I wore a suit".
In fact the men in traditional female jobs often move up the ladder fast. Mr. Anderson actually worked only seven months as a secretary. Then he got a higher-level, better-paying job as a placement counselor at an employment agency. "I got a lot of encouragement to advance", he says, "including job tips from male executives who couldn’t quite see me staying a secretary".
Experts say, for example, that while men make up only a small fraction of elementary school teachers, a disproportionate number of elementary principals are men. Barbara Bergmann, an economist at the University of Maryland who has studied sex segregation at work believes that’s partly because of "sexism in the occupational structure" and partly because men have been raised to assert themselves and to assume responsibility. Men may also feel more compelled than women to advance, she suspects.
69.______
"Men are more likely than women to see nursing as a full-time careen" Mr. Olayer says. He also says the men are more assertive. "Men don’t buy the Florence Nightingale garbage they teach in nursing school—that the doctor is everything, and the nurse is there just to take orders", he says. "Men will ask questions more and think for themselves".
70.______
A. Mr. Anderson’s boss was a woman. When she asked him to fetch coffee, the other secretaries’ eyebrows went up. Sales executives who came in to see his boss, he says, "couldn’t quite believe that I could and would type, take dictation, and answer the phones".
B. But in asserting themselves, the males in female-dominated fields may be making life easier for the women, too. "Guys get together and organize and are willing to fight for more", Mr. Olayer says. "Once we get a 30% to 40% ratio of men in nursing, you’ll see salaries and the whole status of the job improve".
C. Today, Mr. Olayer, a registered nurse trained as an anesthetist, earns about $30,000 a year at Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle, Pennsylvania. His father, he says, has "done an about face". Now he tells the guys he works with that their sons, who can’t find jobs even after four years of college, should have become nurses.
D. Donald Olayer, the nurse, is typical. Almost as soon as he graduated from nursing school, he says he decided "not to stay just a regular floor nurse earning only $12,000 a year". Now he can look forward to earning three times that much. "Enough to support a family, on". He says, and he also has "much more responsibility".
E. Beginning in the 1960s. American women started entering jobs and professions that had been dominated almost completely by men. In the 1970s, another pattern emerged in employment: Men began entering jobs and professions previously dominated by women.
F. At the same time, she says, "The outlooks of young people are different". Younger men with less rigid views on what constitutes male or female work "may not feel there’s such a stigma to working in a female-dominated field".
选项
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/bKTd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
SaveEnergyatHomeOntheaverage,Americanswasteasmuchenergyastwo-thirdsoftheworld’spopulationconsumes.That’s(1)
Whichofthefollowingdoesthefirstparagraphimply?Theauthordecidedtostayathometolookaftertheirsoneightyearsa
Whendidtheauthorfallinlovewiththeboy?Whatdidhedotomakeherhappy?
Agoodreadinghabitcanhelpyourchilddowellatschool.Whenplayingagameyoushouldaskyourchildtofindsomethingsta
Agoodreadinghabitcanhelpyourchilddowellatschool.Oneoftheusefulgamesistoplayspy.
TheAmericanFamilyIntheAmericanfamilythehusbandandwifeusuallyshareimportantdecisionmaking.Whenthechildrenar
TheauthorofthepassagecouldnotgotosleeppartlybecauseGladiatorwasthenameof
Whichofthefollowingideasaboutreligiousbeliefisexpressedbythespeaker?Whichofthefollowingfactorsforincreasing
NewIdeasIceland’sPresidentOlafurGrimssonistryingtodrivecarbondioxide(二氧化碳)undergroundto
RoadTripVacationsIt’ssummer.IntheUnitedStates,it’stheseasonofswimmingpools,barbeques,campingandroadtrips.
随机试题
组织是公共关系的()
男性,53岁。近1个月来多于夜间发生胸骨后压迫性疼痛,每次持续20分钟左右,今日再发胸痛2分钟,ECG如图12。该患者治疗方案最好为
《中华人民共和国城市规划法》是由()通过实施的。
行政许可行为具有以下特点()。
某工地一10m×6.5m的焊接车间内,一端作为材料存放场地,氧气瓶、乙炔瓶、二氧化碳气瓶整齐顺墙根摆放一起;另一端两名工人正在进行电焊作业,另一名工人在门口吸烟。由于天气炎热,三人只穿了衬衫作业。由于电焊机故障,焊机整体带电,正在施焊的两名工人触电,而开
如果以人均国民生产总值作为衡量标准划分国际市场,那么人均国民生产总值为3500美元的应属于()。
为防范第三国居民滥用税收协定避税,可以在协定中加进一定的防范条款,包括()。
[说明]信息系统工程项目是由建设单位、承建单位和监理单位共同完成的,三方的最终目标是一致的,那就是高质量地完成项目,因此,质量控制任务也应该由建设单位、承建单位和监理单位共同完成,三方都应该建立各自的质量保证体系,而整个项目的质量控制过程也就包括建
在设计条件宏时,对于连续重复的条件,要代替重复条件表达式可以使用符号( )。
A.爱好B.遇到C.饱D.菜单E.条F.提高你的足球水平有了很大(),已经和我差不多了。
最新回复
(
0
)