Some women might want it all. But a report by a leading academic claims they never will. Those who try to combine high-powered jobs with having children really only end up with ‘nominal families’ with whom they spend little time.

　　職場風云變幻，女強人也長江后浪推前浪，呈現(xiàn)巾幗絲毫不讓須眉之勢。可女強人真的可以實現(xiàn)“事業(yè)家庭兩不誤”的完美夢想嗎？科學家給出了令人沮喪的答案。據(jù)悉，有數(shù)據(jù)顯示那些事業(yè)上達到一定高度的職場女強人由于陪伴家人的時間少之又少，雖然經濟富足，家庭生活其實并不美滿。

　　Dr Catherine Hakim concludes that the battle for sexual equality is over and any pay gap is down to women’s lifestyle choices. Her report calls on ministers to drop policies pushing for flexible working hours, more time off for fathers, and more places for women on company boards. It comes after the publication of figures that show there is no longer a pay gap acting to the disadvantage of women among people under the age of 30. After 30, women gradually earn less than men.

　　研究員Dr Catherine Hakim總結，當今社會渲染打造的“兩性平等戰(zhàn)役”最終以女性對生活方式的“選擇”（家庭或事業(yè)？）而宣告慘淡結束，也就是說，家庭與事業(yè)要實現(xiàn)絕對平衡，或者說兩者實現(xiàn)完美平衡幾乎是不可能的。雖然，在女性追逐與男性同等的戰(zhàn)役中，是獲得了很多的權益，比如：工作時間可變、職位選擇擴大等。但是，事實證明超過30歲的職場女性在同等條件下與男同事的工資差距增大，換句話說，女性一旦超過30，賺的錢會越來越少。

　　Dr Hakim, a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics, said: ‘In Britain half of all women in senior positions are child-free, and a lot more of them have nominal families with a single child and they subcontract out the work of caring for them to other women.’

　　原來生活是一道“單選題”，事業(yè)和家庭只能取一。專家Dr Hakim說：“在英國，處于職位較高的女性領導50%沒有自己的小孩，要是有小孩也是只有1個而已，然而即使只有1個孩子她們也吃不消，需要請保姆。”