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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：职场女性面对家庭工作的选择 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：职场女性面对家庭工作的选择 GRE考试精品课程指导  The world would be a much richer place if more women had paying jobs.  如果更多女性参与有偿工作，世界将会更加富裕。  Joan Rivers, a comedian who died last year, did not let chores get in the way of a career in show business.  去年过世的喜剧演员Joan Rivers从没有让家务事影响到她的演艺事业。  “I hate housework,” she joked.  她曾戏谑道：“我讨厌家务事。  “You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later, you have to start all over again.”  整理床铺，洗涤碗筷，而且半年之后还得再来一次。”  An escape from unpaid drudgery into paid work seems a distant prospect for millions of women.  从无偿的劳累家务中逃离，投入到有偿工作中，对数百万女性来说似乎遥不可及。  In South Asia, for instance, women carry out up to 90% of unpaid care work, including cooking, cleaning, and looking after children and the elderly.  例如在南亚，高达90%的无偿工作由女性承担，包括煮饭，清洁，照顾孩子和老人。  They are far less visible than men in work outside the home.  在家庭之外的工作场合，女性的身影比男性要少见得多。  Women make up less than a quarter of the paid workforce in India and account for just 17% of GDP, a measure of output that excludes unwaged work.  在印度，她们占据不到劳动力的1/4，在不计无偿工作的情况下，甚至仅占GDP的17%。  By contrast, women contribute 41% of GDP in China.  相比之下，中国女性贡献GDP的比例高达41%。  A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) , a think-tank, underlines how gender inequality in work and society is itself distributed unequally across the world.  智囊团麦肯锡全球研究所(MGI)的一份新报道强调就业时的性别不平等现象在世界各地分布不均是一个全世界的普遍现象。  The number-crunchers at McKinsey calculated gender-parity scores—gauges of how women fare at work and in society in comparison with men—covering over 90% of the worlds population.  麦肯锡的超级计算机基于女性与男性相比在工作和社会中的表现，计算出了性别平等分值，样本覆盖了全球90%的人口。  They reckon South Asia (India excluded) is the global laggard with a score of 0.44 (a score of one represents perfect parity between the sexes) .  他们认为，南亚(印度除外)是全球的相对落伍者，分值只有0.44(分值1表示最完美的性别平等)。  Richer parts of