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And I remembered back to about 10 years ago
我還記得大約十年前
when I read a book by Susan Faludi called "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man",
當我在讀蘇珊·法露迪的“失信：美國男人的背叛”這本書
in which she described how hard the recession had hit men,
書中她描述了經濟衰退是如何劇烈地影響男人們。
and I started to think about whether it had gotten worse this time around in this recession.
我于是開始想是否這次經濟衰退更糟呢？
And I realized that two things were different this time around.
然后我意識到了這次有兩件事情不同。
The first was that these were no longer just temporary hits that the recession was giving men
第一件事就是經濟衰退帶給男人們的不再是暫時的沖擊--
that this was reflecting a deeper underlying shift in our global economy.
這映射出我們全球經濟的深層的變化。
And second, that the story was no longer just about the crisis of men,
第二，這不再僅僅是男人們的危機，
but it was also about what was happening to women.
還對女人們產生了影響。
And now look at this second set of slides.
現在請看第二組幻燈片。
These are headlines about what's been going on with women in the next few years.
這些標題是關于接下來的幾年內女性們將發生什么樣的變化。
These are things we never could have imagined a few years ago.
有些事情是我們在過去這些年從未想到過的。
Women, a majority of the workplace.
女人，勞動力的主體。
And labor statistics: women take up most managerial jobs.
勞動力統計結果：女性占據大部分的管理層工作。
This second set of headlines -- you can see that families and marriages are starting to shift.
第二個標題：你可以看到家庭和婚姻正在開始發生變化。
And look at that last headline -- young women earning more than young men.
再來看看最后一個標題：年輕女性比年輕男性掙的更多。
That particular headline comes to me from a market research firm.
這個標題來源于一個市場調查公司。
They were basically asked by one of their clients
他們被一個客戶詢問
who was going to buy houses in that neighborhood in the future.
誰將購買那樣一個街區的房子。
And they expected that it would be young families, or young men, just like it had always been.
他們預測將會是年輕的家庭，或者青年，一如既往。
But in fact, they found something very surprising.
但事實上，他們驚奇地發現
It was young, single women who were the major purchasers of houses in the neighborhood.
那樣一個街區房子的主要買主是一個年輕的，單身女性。
And so they decided, because they were intrigued by this finding, to do a nationwide survey.
因為他們的好奇心被激起了，因此，他們決定去做一個全國性的調查。
