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汉娜.罗森回顾了表明女性在某些重要领域超越男性的一些显著的新数据，例如大学毕业率。这些不仅以美国为中心还在整个世界都流行的趋势是否预示着“男性时代的结束”？也许并非如此—但这些表明社会变化的数据值得揣摩。
adj. 永恒的，永久的，一再往复的
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- And the other reason it's kind of urgent is because it's not just happening in the U.S.
- 这件事情比较紧急的另一个原因是因为它不仅仅发生在美国。
- It's happening all over the world.
- 它发生在整个世界。
- In India, poor women are learning English faster than their male counterparts
- 在印度，贫穷的女人们学习英语比男同伴们更快
- in order to staff the new call centers that are growing in India.
- 为了应聘在印度迅速发展的客服中心。
- In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening
- 在中国，很多私人企业家正在崛起，
- because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
- 因为女人们开始着手于商业，小型商业，比男人更快。
- And here's my favorite example, which is in South Korea.
- 这是我最喜欢的一个例子在韩国。
- Over several decades, South Korea built one of the most patriarchal societies we know about.
- 过去的几十年里，韩国建立起我们所知的最严格的父系社会。
- They basically enshrined the second-class status of women in the civil code.
- 他们甚至将女性的二等地位铭记于民法里。
- And if women failed to birth male children, they were basically treated like domestic servants.
- 如果女人不能生男孩，她们将基本上被视为家里的佣人。
- And sometimes family would pray to the spirits to kill off a girl child so they could have a male child.
- 有些时候一些家庭向神灵祈祷能杀死一个女孩，然后他们可以拥有一个男孩。
- But over the '70s and '80s, the South Korea government decided they wanted to rapidly industrialize,
- 但是在七十年代和八十年代，韩国政府决定要加快工业化，
- and so what they did was, they started to push women into the workforce.
- 他们所作的就是开始推动女性进入劳动市场。
- Now they've been asking a question since 1985:
- 从一九八五年到现在他们一直在问一个问题：
- "How strongly do you prefer a first-born son?"
- “你对长子有多么强烈的偏好？”
- And now look at the chart. That's from 1985 to 2003.
- 现在请看这个图表。是从一九八五年到二零零三年。
- How much do you prefer a first-born son?
- 你多么偏好于长子？
- So you can see that these economic changes really do have a strong effect on our culture.
- 你可以发现这些经济变化的确对我们的文化有着强烈的影响。
- Now because we haven't fully processed this information,
- 现在因为我们还没有完全地处理这些信息，
- it's kind of coming back to us in our pop culture in these kind of weird and exaggerated ways,
- 它似乎回归到我们的通俗文化，以一种奇怪的夸张的方式，
- where you can see that the stereotypes are changing.
- 你可以看到固有观念正在发生变化。
- And so we have on the male side what one of my colleagues likes to call the "omega males" popping up,
- 所以在男性这边，我的同事喜欢称之为“欧米加男性”跳出，
- who are the males who are romantically challenged losers who can't find a job.
- 他们是那些得不到爱情的失败者，那些不能找到工作的人。
- And they come up in lots of different forms. So we have the perpetual adolescent.
- 他们以很多不同的形式出现。因此我们有终身的青春期。
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