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So what's that about?
到底怎么回事？
It looks like women got some power boost on a video game,
看起來好像女人像是電子游戲里一樣得到很多的力量。
or like they snuck in some secret serum into their birth-control pills that lets them shoot up high.
或者在她們的避孕藥丸中偷偷地得到了種神奇的漿液，從而使得她們崛起。
But of course, it's not about that.
當然不是那樣。
What it's about is that the economy has changed a lot.
其原因就是經濟變化了很多。
We used to have a manufacturing economy, which was about building goods and products,
我們曾擁有一個制造性經濟，也就是制造商品，
and now we have a service economy and an information and creative economy.
現在我們是服務性經濟，一個信息化和創造性的經濟。
Those two economies require very different skills,
這兩個經濟模式要求十分不相同的技能。
and as it happens, women have been much better at acquiring the new set of skills than men have been.
正是由于這個變化，女性比男性更好地獲取新的技術。
It used to be that you were a guy who went to high school who didn't have a college degree,
曾經是這樣的，你從高中學校出來，沒有大學文憑，
but you had a specific set of skills, and with the help of a union,
但是你有一些特殊的技能，借助于工會的幫助，
you could make yourself a pretty good middle-class life.
你可以讓自己過上很不錯的中產階級的生活。
But that really isn't true anymore.
但是現在不再是這樣了。
This new economy is pretty indifferent to size and strength,
新經濟對個頭和力量不再依賴，
which is what's helped men along all these years.
過去的時間里對于個頭和力量的依賴顯然幫助了男人。
What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills.
現在的經濟要求的是完全不一樣的技術。
You basically need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus,
基本上你需要智力，你需要能夠穩定地坐著并保持集中，
to communicate openly, to be able to listen to people
開放地交流，能夠傾聽別人
and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be,
能夠在一個更流動的工作場所下作業。
and those are things that women do extremely well, as we're seeing.
這些正是女人們可以做的非常的好，正如我們所見。
If you look at management theory these days,
如果你觀察一下當今的管理理論，
it used to be that our ideal leader sounded something like General Patton, right?
我們曾經的理想化的領導是像喬治-巴頓一樣的人。
You would be issuing orders from above. You would be very hierarchical.
你可以從上向下發令。你可以非常的階級化。
You would tell everyone below you what to do.
你可以告訴你下面的每一個人做什么。
But that's not what an ideal leader is like now.
但是這不再是今天的理想化領導。
