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If you read management books now, a leader is somebody who can foster creativity,
如果你現在讀管理類的書，領導是那種可以激發創造力，
who can get his -- get the employees -- see, I still say "his" --
可以令他的--員工們--看吧，我仍然說“他的”--
who can get the employees to talk to each other,
讓員工們相互交談，
who can basically build teams and get them to be creative.
可以組建團隊并令他們擁有創造力的人。
And those are all things that women do very well.
女性可以將所有這些事情做的非常的好。
And then on top of that, that's created a kind of cascading effect.
再加上，（她們）創造了一種級聯效應。
Women enter the workplace at the top, and then at the working class,
女人進入工作場所的上級，然后在工薪階層，
all the new jobs that are created are the kinds of jobs that wives used to do for free at home.
所有被創造的新工作曾是主婦們在家里做的免費的工作。
So that's childcare, elder care and food preparation.
也就是照看小孩，照顧老年人和準備食物。
So those are all the jobs that are growing, and those are jobs that women tend to do.
這些工作正在增加，這些工作也正是女人們愿意去做的。
Now one day it might be that mothers will hire an out-of-work,
有一天媽媽們將雇傭一名失業的，
middle-aged, former steelworker guy to watch their children at home,
中年、曾為造鐵工人的男人在家里照看他們的小孩，
and that would be good for the men, but that hasn't quite happened yet.
這對男人也有好處，但是這至今還沒有發生。
To see what's going to happen, you can't just look at the workforce that is now,
想知道發生了什么，你不能僅觀察現在的工作情形，
you have to look at our future workforce.
你需要觀察未來的工作情形。
And here the story is fairly simple.
這其實很簡單。
Women are getting college degrees at a faster rate than men.
女人們正在以一個比男人們更快的速度獲得大學學位。
Why? This is a real mystery.
為什么？這的確不可思議。
People have asked men, why don't they just go back to college,
人們問男人，為什么不回到大學，
to community college, say, and retool themselves, learn a new set of skills?
回到社區大學，重組自己，學一些新的技術。
Well it turns out that they're just very uncomfortable doing that.
事實上他們對此感到十分的不舒服。
They're used to thinking of themselves as providers,
他們習慣于認為他們是提供者，
and they can't seem to build the social networks that allow them to get through college.
他們似乎看起來不能建立社會關系網來允許他們完成大學。
So for some reason men just don't end up going back to college.
因此，男人最終不能返回學校。
