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Ok, so we 've been looking at the attitudes of various social and cultural groups towards the management of their personal finances;
好的，我們一直在調查不同社會和文化群體對個人理財的態度，
how important they feel it is to save money and what they save their money for.
關于他們存錢的重要性和存錢的目的。
One aspect that we have not yet considered is gender.
我們還沒有考慮過的一方面是性別。
So if when we considered gender issues,
所以如果我們考慮性別問題，
we are basically asking whether men and women have different attitudes towards saving money and whether theysave money for different things.
我們基本上會問男人和女人是否對存錢有不同的態度，是否他們會為不同的事存錢。
Back in 1928, the British writer George Bernard Shaw wrote in his's Intelligent Women Guide to Socialism andCapitalism
在1928年，英國作家喬治·蕭伯納寫了一本《智慧女性之社會主義和資本主義指南》，
that a man is supposed to understand politics, economics and finance, and is therefore unwilling to accept essential instruction.
他指出男人了解政治、經濟與金融，所以之后他們就不再愿意接受指導。
He also said a woman, having fewer pretensions, is far more willing to learn.
他還說，女人沒有那么自負，往往更愛學習。
Now, though these days people might question a lot of the assumptions contained in those statements,
現在，盡管人們會質疑這其中包含的大量假設，
recent research does suggest that there are some quite fundamental differences between men and women in their attitudes to economic matters.
但是最近的研究顯示男女在經濟問題的態度上有根本的不同。
Let's look at what men and women actually save for.
讓我們看看男人和女人究竟為了什么存錢。
Research studies of women in North America have found that women are far more likely to save for their children's education.
關于對北美女人的調查發現，女人更愿意為了孩子的教育存錢。
And they are also more likely to save up to buy a house one day.
另外，她們還會為了某天能買上一所房子而存錢。
The same studies have found that men, on the other hand, tend to save for a car, which by the way,
另一方面，同樣在北美的調查發現男人往往為了車而存錢。
takes a surprisingly large amount of the household budget in North America.
令人驚訝的是，這筆錢會占用大部分的家庭預算。
