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The pipeline that supplies the educated workforce is chock-full of women at the entry level,
所以，在社會教育的勞動者中，處級崗位上擠滿了女性。
but by the time that same pipeline is filling leadership positions, it is overwhelmingly stocked with men.
而同時期的領導崗位卻被男性占滿。
There are so many reasons for this winnowing out, but one important contributor is a leadership ambition gap.
這個淘汰過程形成的背后有很多原因，但造成高級職位中女性數量稀少的一個重要原因是缺乏想當領導的進取心。
Of course, many individual women are as professionally ambitious as any individual man.
當然，有不少女人和男人一樣在事業上雄心勃勃。
Yet drilling down, the data clearly indicate that in field after field, more men than women aspire to the most senior jobs.
然而我們深入地看待問題時，有關女性對高級職位渴望度的數據顯示，在各個行業里追求高級職位的人，基本都是男性多于女性。
A 2012 McKinsey survey of more than four thousand employees of leading companies
麥肯錫在2012年對于財富500強企業的4000多名員工的一項調查中發現，
found that 36 percent of the men wanted to become CEOs, compared to only 18 percent of the women.
男性中有36%的人想要成為首席執行官，而女性只有18%。
When jobs are described as powerful, challenging, and involving high levels of responsibility, they appeal to more men than women.
當工作被描述為具有影響力、挑戰性并涉及高級職責時，要求得到該工作的男性數量明顯多于女性。
And while the ambition gap is most pronounced at the highest levels,
盡管我們通常是在高管級別談論兩性在進取心上的差距，
the underlying dynamic is evident at every step of the career ladder.
但在事業發展的每個階段，這種差別都很明顯。
A survey of college students found
一項關于大學生的調查發現，
that more men than women chose "reaching a managerial level" as a career priority in the first three years after graduating.
畢業后以“進入管理層”作為頭3年職業目標的更多是男性。
Even among highly educated professional men and women, more men than women describe themselves as "ambitious."
即使是在那些受過高等教育的男性和女性中，聲稱自己“有事業抱負”的，也是男性多于女性。
There is some hope that a shift is starting to occur in the next generation.
要在下一代人中實現一些轉變仍然是有希望的。
