For years ,researchers have struggled to understand why so many women leave careers in science and engineering .Theories run the gamut ( 整个范围） , from family-unfriendly work schedules to natural differences between the genders . A new paper by McGill University economist Jennifer Hunt offers another explanation : women leave such jobs when they feel disappointed about pay and the chance of promotion. To reach that conclusion , Hunt combed through data collected by the National Science Foundation in 1993 and 2003 on some 200,000 college graduates . Her first finding was that women actually don't leave jobs in science at an above average rate . The difference , Hunt found , comes from the engineering sector. That's not simply because women are exiting the workforce to raise families . About 21% of all graduates surveyed were working in a field unrelated to their highest college degree. That proportion held steady for both men and women . Yet in engineering , there was a gap ：about 10% of male engin
1. What makes women leave careers in science and engineering according to Jennifer Hunt ?
- A、Family-unfriendly work schedules.
- B、Innate differences between genders.
- C、Insufficient interest in science and engineering.
- D、Dissatisfaction with the pay and promotion opportunities
正确答案:D
答案解析:有
3 . What does Hunt mean by saying " it doesn't have anything to do with the nature of the work" ?
- A、The nature of work will not change with gender gap.
- B、The female staff will also feel dissatisfactory with non-engineering.
- C、The gender gap can't explain why more women leave engineering.
- D、The extemal factors of a work have no big effects on female staff.
正确答案:C
答案解析:有
5.What used to be done in order to keep women in the engineering professions , according to the passage ?
- A、Provide them more money for their work
- B、Make it easier for them to get promotion
- C、Improve their working environments
- D、Enable them to keep a work-life balance
正确答案:D
答案解析:有
4 .One common point between engineering and economic fields is that
- A、women are in a tiny minority
- B、women can't feel comfortable
- C、men get more pay than women
- D、men are more competent
正确答案:A
答案解析:有
2 . What can be inferred from hunt's first finding ?
- A、The female staff are not competent in science and engineering.
- B、The flow of female staff in engineering sector is more frequent.
- C、Females can't find satisfaction from their jobs in science and engineering
- D、Females can't find work-life balance from careers in science and engineering .
正确答案:B
答案解析:有
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