向前一步:第221期 让我们开始讨论吧(27)

 Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence¹ we hurt ourselves. 然而，我们却放低音量，以为奋斗已经结束了，结果却因为这样的沉默而受伤。

Now I proudly call myself a feminist². 现在，我会很自豪地宣称自己是女权主义者。

If Tip O'Neill were alive today, I might even tell him that I'm a pom-pom girl for feminism. 如果蒂姆·奥尼尔还在世，我甚至会告诉他我是啦啦队女孩，但是我在为女权主义呐喊。

I hope more women, and men, will join me in accepting this distinguished³ label. 我希望更多的女性、男性和我一起接受这个闪亮的标签。

Currently, only 24 percent of women in the United States say that they consider themselves feminists⁴. 美国目前只有24%的女性会把自己看作是女权主义者，

Yet when offered a more specific definition of feminism, 然而，当女权主义者的定义更为确切时：

"A feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes", “女权主义者指主张社会、政治、经济、性别平等的人”，

the percentage of women who agree rises to 65 percent. 这个比例将会上升到65%。

That's a big move in the right direction. 这是往正确方向迈出的一大步。

Semantics can be important, but I don't think progress turns on our willingness to apply a label to ourselves. 语言上的表述很重要，但我并不认为进步就等于我们乐意给自己贴标签，

I do think progress turns on our willingness to speak up about the impact gender⁵ has on us. 而是我们敢于去提起并讨论性别问题对女性的影响。

We can no longer pretend that biases⁶ do not exist, nor can we talk around them. 我们不再假装性别偏见不存在，或是避开不谈。

And as Harvard Business School has demonstrated, 正如哈佛商学院的研究实践所证明的，

the result of creating a more equal environment will not just be better performance for our organizations, 创造一个更平等的环境不仅能让各种组织和机构更好地运行，

but quite likely greater happiness for all. 也会为所有人带来更大的幸福。

 

1 reticence   

n.沉默，含蓄

参考例句：

• He breaks out of his normal reticence and tells me the whole story.他打破了平时一贯沈默寡言的习惯，把事情原原本本都告诉了我。
• He always displays a certain reticence in discussing personal matters.他在谈论个人问题时总显得有些保留。

2 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

3 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。

4 feminists   

n.男女平等主义者，女权扩张论者( feminist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Only 16 percent of young women in a 1990 survey considered themselves feminists. 在1990年的一项调查中，只有16%的年轻女性认为自己是女权主义者。 来自辞典例句
• The organization had many enemies, most notably among feminists. 这个组织有许多敌人，特别是在男女平等主义者中。 来自辞典例句

5 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

6 biases   

偏见( bias的名词复数 )； 偏爱； 特殊能力； 斜纹

参考例句：

• Stereotypes represent designer or researcher biases and assumptions, rather than factual data. 它代表设计师或者研究者的偏见和假设，而不是实际的数据。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• The net effect of biases on international comparisons is easily summarized. 偏差对国际比较的基本影响容易概括。