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In middle school, more boys than girls aspire to leadership roles in future careers.
在中學時期，也有更多男孩比女孩想要在未來的事業里獲得領導者的角色。
At the top fifty colleges, less than a third of student government presidents are women.
排名前50位的大學學生會主席中，女性不到1/3。
Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women.
人們對男性抱有職業成就方面的期待，對女性的期待則是可有無——更糟糕的是，
"She is very ambitious" is not a compliment in our culture.
“她很有抱負”這句話在我們的文化里并不是一句贊美之言。
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct.
積極進取、作風強硬的女性違反了那些關于社會“可接受行為”的不成文規則。
Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty.
男性的進取、強大、成功會不斷地受到人們的稱贊、喝彩，表現出相同特點的女性卻常常受到社會的懲罰。
Female accomplishments come at a cost.
這意味著，女性在獲得成就的同時，都要付出一定的代價。
And for all the progress, there is still societal pressure for women to keep an eye on marriage from a young age.
就目前情況而言，仍然有來自社會的壓力讓女性從年輕的時候就得考慮婚姻問題。
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more.
當我上大學時，父母雖然也強調要學有所成，但對婚姻問題的叮囑更多。
They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a "good man" before they are all taken.
他們告訴我，最適合結婚的女人很早就結婚了，她們會在“好男人”被搶光之前先下手為強。
I followed their advice and throughout college, I vetted every date as a potential husband (which, trust me, is a sure way to ruin a date at age nineteen).
我遵從了他們的建議。上大學時，我將每個約會對象都當作潛在的丈夫候選人加以考驗（相信我，如果你19歲時就這么做，那絕對會毀了約會）。
When I was graduating, my thesis advisor, Larry Summers, suggested that I apply for international fellowships.
當我快畢業時，我的論文指導教授拉里·薩默斯建議我申請一個國際獎學金項目，
I rejected the idea on the grounds that a foreign country was not a likely place to turn a date into a husband.
但我拒絕了，理由是如果我在海外生活，那么約會對象就不大可能發展成為我的丈夫。
