新视野 Book 2 Unit 7 Text A Women Making a difference

新视野

Book

2

Unit

7

Text

A

Women:

Making

a

difference

Unit 7 Women: Making a difference

第七单元：女性在现代社会地位已改变

Text A Women at the management level

课文

A

女性管理者

When Monica applied for a job as an administrative assistant in 1971, she was asked

whether she would rather work for a male or a female

attorney

.

man,

she

says.

felt

that a

male-boss

/

female-employee

relationship was

more

natural,

needing

no

personalaccommodation

whatsoever

.

But

20

years

later,

when

she

was

asked

the

same

question,

she

said,

was pleasantly

surprised that female

bosses

are

much

more accessible

to their

employees;

they're

much

more

sensitive

and intimate with their employees.

Female

bosses

today

are

still

finding

they

face

subtle

resistance

.

There

is

still

a

segment

of

the

population,

both

men

and,

surprisingly,

women

who

report low

tolerance for female bosses. The

growing

presence of female bosses has also provoked

two

major

questions

that

revolve

around

styles:

Do

men

and

women

manage

differently, and, if so, is that a good thing?

Monica is disposed to think so, on both counts. Now a 40-year-old mother of four, she

is

president of

a public sector labor union with 45,000 members.

employees

are

probably

different

from

those

of

male

managers preceding me,

she

says.

mump

s so I won't

be coming in. I have a more flexible style - not soft, just more understanding.

man

who

is

Monica's

assistant

agrees,

tends

to

delegate

more

and

is

always

looking for a consensus

. People are happy and flourishbecause

they have an

input

into

decisions

and

they

are

not

mere

bystanders

;

their

energies

are

harnessed

. On the other hand, consensus takes longer.