标题: 求教GWD上的阅读单亲家庭生活穷困与妇女收入较低问题的讨论 [打印本页] 作者: liyao604 时间: 2014-4-23 18:09 标题: 求教GWD上的阅读单亲家庭生活穷困与妇女收入较低问题的讨论 1.GWD-8-Q35 -Q37单亲家庭生活穷困与妇女收入较低问题的讨论
This passage was adapted from an article written in 1990.
Research data indicate that调查数据显示在美国，由妇女持家的单亲
there is a great deal of poverty in家庭存在着大量贫困现象。
the United States among single-
Line parent families headed by women.
(5)This problem could result from这个问题的根源可能是妇女工资是男性的
the fact that women’s wages are60%。一些经济学家相信有力执行现有的
only 60 percent of men’s. Some平等报酬法律将切实践减少工资不平等。
economists believe that rigorous
enforcement of existing equal pay
(10)laws would substantially decrease
this wage inequity. But equal pay但是当男女专注于不同职业时，平等报
laws are ineffectual when women酬法律是无效的，因为那些律例仅要求
and men are concentrated in different男女同工同酬。
occupations because such laws
(15)require only that women and men
doing the same jobs be paid the
same. Since gender concentration因存在性别集中(如80%文书是妇女)，
exists (for example, 80 percent of其他经济学家认为应执行一个可比的
clerical workers are women), other价值标准，即要求无论男女做什么工
(20)economists argue that a comparable作，需相似培训和担相似责任的，都得
worth standard, which would到同等的报酬。
mandate that women and men in
any jobs that require comparable
training and responsibility be paid
(25)the same, should be applied
instead. But some policy analysts但一些政策分析家坚定认为，虽然可比
assert that, although comparable价值确实会使男女工资平等，但很多由
worth would virtually equalize male妇女持家的单亲家庭仍旧贫困，因为很
and female wages, many single-多男性的工资都低于贫困线。
(30)parent families headed by women
would remain in poverty because
many men earn wages that are
below the poverty line. These这些政策分析家相信，这个问题并非主
policy analysts believe that the要来自工资不平等，而是来自不论性别
(35)problem is not caused primarily by的低工资加上单亲。
wage inequity but rather by low
wages coupled with single parent
hood, regardless of sex. As a作为解决方案，他们挑战政府的家庭
solution, they challenge the govern-收入主要是工资的前提，敦促政府向
(40)ment’s assumption that a family’s低工资单亲家庭提供慷慨的工资补助。
