男教师升职杀手锏：魅力资本

 　　Male teachers often use their ‘erotic capital’ when dealing¹ with female members of staff, according to the head of a leading prep school.

　　一所一流预备学校的校长表示，男老师跟女同事打交道时经常运用自己的“魅力资本”。

　　Alison Fleming said that men in some schools could gain the upper hand in staff rooms by being ‘flirtatious²’ with admiring colleagues.

　　艾莉森·弗莱明（Alison Fleming）表示，一些学校的男老师通过与仰慕他们的同事调情在教研室中占据优势。

　　Speaking yesterday at a gender³ issues conference, she even jokingly compared the situation to erotic novel, E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey.

　　在昨天的一次性别问题会议上，她甚至开玩笑地将这种情况比作E.L.詹姆斯的情欲小说——《五十度灰》。

　　She was speaking in general about schools nationally, and there is no suggestion that such behaviour takes place in her own school.

　　她当时笼统地谈到全国的学校，并表示她的学校没有发生这种行为。

　　男教师升职杀手锏：魅力资本

　　The event, held at Newton Preparatory School in Battersea, examined the issue of a disproportionately low number of women obtaining senior leadership roles in education.

　　这个会议在位于巴特西的牛顿预备学校举行，会上讨论了教育界中鲜有女性当上高层领导这个现象。

　　Mrs Fleming, head mistress at the school, also said men sometimes had an advantage in teaching because governors felt they needed more male role models.

　　弗莱明女士是该学校的校长，她也表示，校领导们需要更多的男性榜样，这样男性有时就在教育中占优势。

　　She said: ‘Men’s pathway into leadership, in my view, is - because people have got this slightly warped⁴ idea that we need good male role models - actually it seems to me that they’ve only got to be half way decent often before they shoot up the promotion⁵ ladder and find themselves running schools at aged⁶ 30.

　　她称：“在我看来，男人走向领导岗位，是因为人们有一种扭曲的想法，认为我们需要优秀的男性榜样。事实上，在我看来，他们只需要付出一半的努力就会得到晋升的机会，到三十岁时就会成为校领导。”

　　‘They don’t always know a lot about education actually.

　　她还说：“这些男教师不一定对教育很懂行。”

　　‘When appointing heads, governors often... they like the idea of appointing a guy with a nice wife.

　　“而领导们在任命校长时，他们总是喜欢任命有漂亮妻子的男士。”

　　‘There’s a sense - certainly in the independent sector⁷ - in which that makes a good package.’

　　“无疑在独立领域中，这在某种意义上看起来很漂亮。”

　　And she also suggested that men could succeed in the female-dominated sector by using their charms on their colleagues.

　　而且，她还暗示，男性可以运用自身的魅力在女性同事居多的领域获得成功。

　　She said: ‘Sometimes men in leadership can use what I would describe as their erotic capital. A male head master will sometimes - it will sometimes become a bit flirtatious.’

　　她说:“有时男性领导也可以运用我所称的魅力资本。有时，一个男领导会有点爱调情。”

　　She described one situation where there had been ‘lots of hair flicking’ and compared it to ‘a scene from Fifty Shades of Grey.’

　　她描述了一个情景，那里长发飘飘，就像《五十度灰》中的一个场景。

　　While teaching is a female-dominated profession, recent research shows a disproportionate number of men are making it into senior positions.

　　虽然教育是女性占大多数的职业，但最近研究表明，不成比例的男教师跻身高层职位。

　　Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, who also spoke⁸ at the conference, suggested women’s pay was also lagging behind, mainly because they were taking career breaks to have families.

　　参会的教育部长尼基·摩根（Nicky Morgen）表示，女性教师的工资也不如男教师的高，主要因为女教师生孩子时会中断事业。

　　Recent government figures revealed four per cent of women in schools were headteachers compared to six per cent of men.

　　政府最近公布的数据显示，学校4%的女性是校长，而是男教师占6%。

　　When it came to pay 23 per cent of men working in schools sat in the top pay bracket compared to 19 per cent of women.

　　而在薪资方面，23%的男教师拿到最高工资，而女教师只有19%。

　　Vocabulary

　　erotic：色情的

　　upper hand：优势，上风

　　warped：扭曲的

1 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

2 flirtatious   

adj.爱调情的，调情的，卖俏的

参考例句：

• a flirtatious young woman 卖弄风情的年轻女子
• Her flirtatious manners are intended to attract. 她的轻浮举止是想引人注意。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 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。

4 warped   

adj.反常的；乖戾的；（变）弯曲的；变形的v.弄弯，变歪( warp的过去式和过去分词 )；使（行为等）不合情理，使乖戾，

参考例句：

• a warped sense of humour 畸形的幽默感
• The board has warped. 木板翘了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

6 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

7 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

8 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。