西部落：为什么女士愿意为男老板工作?

I don't understand why it is so difficult to,to confirm an appointment.

I know. I'm so sorry Miranda, I actually did confirm last night.

The details of your incompetence¹ do not interest me. Who's that?

Nobody

Meryl Streep's character is probably the reason that a recent poll² of 800 women found that most of them with a preference would rather work for a man. Ronna Lichtenberg is a career consultant³ and author of "Pitch like a Girl", how a woman can be herself and still succeed. Good morning Ronna!

Good morning.

Let's look at some of these numbers in this life-time poll. (Yeah!)Very interesting,47% of the er, generation Y respondents and 43% of baby boomers said they prefer a male boss. 31% of the younger and 28% of the baby boomers want a woman for a boss. So in general why do more people want to work for a man?

Easier in some ways, with women there's always an emotional connection, so it's a little more complicated. But you know what, I mean that there is a good job, I can't believe anybody really cares.

Well, (Right)a lot of people are decided⁴ and they don't have a preference. (Right) Although it's kind of interesting because when you look at these generation why women,(Right) it seems that women are becoming more open to working for other women, right?

Yeah, because there are more of us, thank goodness, and it's more common than it used to be, so if you look at the trend of the last 20 years, and this kind of question, it's really getting to be easier to think about working for another woman.

We manage to get out on the streets of New York and (Oh, funny) ask people what they preferred. And I wanna run this by you. This was the most common answer that we heard.

I prefer men as bosses over women, yes.

You could talk to him about anything, where I've found with a lot of female bosses, um, they had their own issues so they didn't wanna know about your issues.

I find having a,a female boss kind of trying, you know, there's a lot of cattiness, and, um, competition.

Is that the downside of having a female boss potentially?

For them? (uh-huh)But you know, you've sort of got what you're looking for in the way,(really)if, if you go in, thinking that another woman is gonna be a problem then she is.

So it can be all in your attitude.

Your attitude really matters and that's kind of the big takeaway for me is that what you expect your boss to be like and your attitude toward her is gonna influence it. I've never seen a situation where someone says I really hate my boss, and the boss really likes that person. (So)Right, it's both ways.

So don't project any Meryl Streep stereotypes⁵ onto your female boss.(Right) There are people who prefer to work for women. And here's what they had to say.

I prefer a female boss.

Most of my bosses that I have so far have been women, and I just feel that it's easier to talk to them. I don't think there's any kind of, there's lots of barrier.

So should we behave differently with a male or female boss? Or should we treat them both the same?

Well,I think it's always so different held with a male boss, I can remember I was ahead to pretend to be interested in sports which I never was. So now with, with women clients or my bosses I can talk about shoes, which is more natural.

There you go. You say that either sex of boss can be difficult, and you have a couple of quick tips, you say to see what you can learn from them. That makes sense.

If, right, if the boss from help, any boss, no matter how stupid, is somebody you can learn something from. So get what you can.

Look before you leave?

Do not walk out. You know, if you wanna look for another job, find it before you lose when you've got.

And don't discuss problems with your co-workers.

No, no, no, you can't be sure who you can trust at work. So if we were sitting on an audition⁶ about how horrible you are as a boss and which would never happen, for sure you're gonna hear about it.

Ronna Lichtenberg, thanks so much. (Oh,it's great)Very interesting, it's all in the attitude, I like that.

It's all in the attitude, in your attitude, you can make any boss be ok.

Ok, great to have you here, thanks

1 incompetence   

n.不胜任，不称职

参考例句：

• He was dismissed for incompetence. 他因不称职而被解雇。
• She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence. 她觉得，本是老板无能，但她却成了替罪羊。

2 poll   

n.民意测验，民意调查，选举投票

参考例句：

• The result of the poll won't be known until midnight.选举结果要到午夜才能揭晓。
• They expected a heavy poll.他们期望会有很高的投票数。

3 consultant   

n.顾问；会诊医师，专科医生

参考例句：

• He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
• Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 stereotypes   

n.老套，模式化的见解，有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化，使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
• It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 audition   

n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)

参考例句：

• I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音，可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
• At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初，他们说他太小，但后来他们叫他去试听。