BBC News:有孩子的女員工因工作時間靈活遭排擠
Are flexible working arrangements for womenwith children causing resentment among those whodon't have children? Researchers here in Britain havefound that many of those survey thought womenwho worked flexible hours were less committedthan their colleagues.
有孩子的女員工會因工作安排靈活而引起他人的不滿嗎?英國研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，許多調查認為工作時間靈活的女性不如她們的同事勤奮。
"Working part-time, leaving early to pick up the kids: flexible working is seen as somethingthat can help parents, but it could be having a negative impact. 25,000 women were surveyed.About half of those questioned said that women who worked flexible hours were resented andviewed as less committed by their colleagues. Here is what some people I asked in Londonthought."
"工作時間靈活，早退接孩子--大家普遍認為靈活工作制能夠幫助有孩子的人群，但是這也可能造成了負面的影 響。在2萬5千位受訪的女性中，約有半數(shù)在回答提問時說，工作時間靈活的女性在職場中會遭到不滿，并被理解成沒有她們的同事努力。下面是我在倫敦采訪到的 一些人的想法。"
"There is some resentment definitely. I think it's more a case of like with younger people intheir 20s. You know, they do kind of look at some of my older colleagues and sort of saying'well, it's not really that fair.' But I think they might change their tune when they are perhaps intheir 30s and when they are thinking about kids." "My colleague, when I was leaving somepart-time, mouthed 'I hate you' when I was leaving. And I think that was because I, you know, Ido manage to strike a balance." "I passed from 95 jobs, full-time to freelance." "And so it'snot just women with children that want that flexibility?" "No, I don't think so." Jody Day, shefounded the organization Gateway Women for women without children said they had legitimatereasons to be resentful. "It's a difficult issue to bring up in the workplace because it's actuallyabout fairness and equality, and diversity. And if most of the women in the office do havechildren, there is a sense that's a kind of dominant sort of group think. And itcan be quitedifficult to get your voice heard if you are the childless one in that situation."
"確實會 有一些不滿。我覺得一般是20多歲的年輕員工看到年齡較大的同事這樣做時，會想'這不太公平吧'。但我認為她們到30多歲，要照顧孩子的時候，就不會這么 想了。""當我不到下班時間就走的時候，我的同事會嘟囔著'我討厭你'。我覺得那是因為我在努力做到兩不誤。" "我換過95份工作，有全職的，有兼職的。" "也就是說不光帶孩子的女性才想要自由工作時間嗎?""是的。"喬迪·戴是 Gateway Women的創(chuàng)立者，這是一個專為沒有孩子的女性成立的組織。她說，有不滿情緒是十分正常的。"這在職場是一個不大好提出的問題，因為事關公平、平等和多 樣性。而且，如果辦公室里大部分女性都有孩子，那么就可能形成一種壓倒性的群體思維。這樣一來，如果你沒有孩子，你的聲音很容易被湮沒。"
"Managers are often confused about what rights and privileges people have because they aretrying to do the right thing. They are worried about what the law says." The researchers foundthat the stigma attached to flexible working could be an obstacle to women's progression.They've called on businesses to do more to change that.
"對于職工擁有怎樣的權利和特權，經(jīng)理們經(jīng)常感到困惑，因為他們不想犯錯。他們擔心觸犯法律。"研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，靈活工作時間所帶來的負面評價可能會成為一些女職員晉升的障礙。他們呼吁企業(yè)為此做出更多的應對措施。
In India, parliamentary elections begin on Monday and continue for an incredible six weeks.More than 814 million people are eligible to vote, among them, those living in Indianadministered Kashmir. It's a region which reporters rarely visit. "If I say the word Kashmir, a fewthings may come to mind. You might associate with Kashmir the insurgency of course, thehouse boats on the lake in Srinagar, and for those who love the game of cricket, you may wellassociate Kashmir with the cricket bat because the willows that grow here are very good forbats.
印度議會選舉于周 一開始，令人不可思議的是，它竟然持續(xù)了6周。在8.14億選民中，一部分居住在由印度管轄的克什米爾地區(qū)。該地區(qū)很少有記者采訪。"如果我說'克什米爾 '，那么，一些標志性的事物可能會出現(xiàn)在你的腦海中。首先想到的當然是克什米爾戰(zhàn)爭，還有斯利那加湖面上的船屋。喜愛板球運動的人可能會聯(lián)想到克什米爾的 板球拍，因為生長在那里的柳木非常適合做球拍。
