英闻天下——482 Female Execs to Hire More Women in High Tech Jobs

 　　Ditto is one of the latest high-tech¹ companies to set up shop in San Francisco, California.

 

　　The company has designed an interactive² platform using high tech facial recognition software where you can check your appearance when trying out spectacle frames in a virtual world. Its co founder³ is Kate Endress.

 

　　"Recently, we had three openings for engineers. We had 45 male applicants⁴ and three female applicants. I think that does speak volumes in terms of just what's available."

 

　　The initiative by women executives in California's Silicon⁵ Valley to try to attract and retain more women follows the publication of Sheryl Sandberg's book about female empowerment, "Lean In."

 

　　Sandberg, who is the chief operating officer of Facebook, is hoping to create a national movement to help women advance in the workforce⁶.

 

　　Just like Sandberg's rise through Facebook, a number of other women have been attaining⁷ senior roles in Silicon Valley.

 

　　Cristina Cordova, business development director at Stripe, a company that develops technology to make it easier to accept credit cards online, says women want choices.

 

　　"They want to be able to succeed. They want to take the position that might be 60, 80 or 100 hours a week, and yet they still feel the responsibility that they have to go home and raise their children."

 

　　Although many female tech execs say the "glass ceiling" has, for the most part, been shattered, there's still a double standard when it comes to working parents.

 

　　Men are not expected to sacrifice family life, while working women are criticized for not spending time with young children.

 

　　Kelly Steckelberg, chief operating officer of the social dating site Zoosk, believes that it is important to educate girls about the opportunities available to them when they are at school.

 

　　"I think starting at an early age in helping⁸ females understand that there are lots of career choices for them. They don't have to think about traditional roles for women. That's just not the case any more."

 

　　At the all-girls Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California, students focus on mathematics and science, subjects that girls often avoid. But teachers believe it will encourage them to become the next generation of tech leaders.

 

　　Lab Director Angi Chau says part of the problem is that girls want to be nice.

 

　　"I think a lot of it is trying to teach girls how to take initiative and be a leader but still be nice because there's plenty of ways to do it."

 

　　Student Caroline Debs wants to follow in Sheryl Sandberg's footsteps and become an executive at a company like Facebook or get involved in web design.

 

　　"I think that if you just reach out and get someone who knows about those fields, anyone can accomplish anything that they set their heart to."

 

　　According to recent surveys, women hold only about 15 percent of management roles in the top 500 companies in the United States.

 

　　For CRI, I am Li Dong.

1 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

2 interactive   

adj.相互作用的，互相影响的，（电脑）交互的

参考例句：

• The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
• This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。

3 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

4 applicants   

申请人，求职人( applicant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
• He was impressed by the high calibre of applicants for the job. 求职人员出色的能力给他留下了深刻印象。

5 silicon   

n.硅(旧名矽)

参考例句：

• This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
• A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。

6 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

7 attaining   

（通常经过努力）实现( attain的现在分词 )； 达到； 获得； 达到（某年龄、水平、状况）

参考例句：

• Jim is halfway to attaining his pilot's licence. 吉姆就快要拿到飞行员执照了。
• By that time she was attaining to fifty. 那时她已快到五十岁了。

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。