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2024考研英语同源外刊4月:女性做自由职业真的香吗?

To escape the limitations of the Glass Ceiling — that is, the systemic barriers that limit female employees’ ability to rise up the ranks in corporate environments — many women have increasingly begun turning to freelance working structures. This approach has historically been lauded as empowering female workers to craft their own career trajectories and enabling them to pursue the direction and flexibility that works best for them. But does freelance work always improve women’s career outcomes?

为了摆脱玻璃天花板的限制——即限制女性员工在职场环境中晋升能力的系统性障碍——越来越多的女性开始转而选择自由职业者的工作结构。这种方式一直以来都得到了人们的称赞，被认为可以赋予女性员工权力，让她们能够制定自己的职业轨迹，并使她们能够追求较适合自己的工作方向和灵活性。但是，自由职业是否总是能加强女性的职业成就呢?

On the face of it, being your own boss might seem like a great way to sidestep biased managers and promotion systems, and grow your career on your own terms. However, our recent research suggests that freelance work often comes with its own gender inequities.

从表面上看，自己当老板可能是一个很好的方法，可以避开有偏见的经理和晋升制度，按照自己的方式发展自己的职业。然而，我们近期的研究表明，自由职业往往也有其性别不平等问题。

Specifically, while corporate hierarchies often encourage workers to specialize and grow upwardly, freelancers tend to benefit from starting with a narrower specialty in which they can quickly develop expertise and build up a client base, and then expanding horizontally into other, related domains as they advance their careers. And we found that while avoiding the corporate world may help women avoid the Glass Ceiling, female freelancers often instead find themselves hitting a Glass Wall: As they attempt to broaden their roles, female freelancers are evaluated as less competent and committed than male freelancers making equivalent, horizontal career expansions.

具体来说，虽然公司的等级制度经常鼓励员工专业化并向上发展，自由职业者往往受益于从一个较窄的专业领域开始发展，这样他们可以快速发展专业能力，建立起客户基础，然后随着职业生涯的发展，视野扩展到其他相关领域。我们还发现，虽然避开职场可以帮助女性避免玻璃天花板，但女性自由职业者往往会发现自己撞上了一堵玻璃墙：当她们试图拓宽自己的职业角色时，女性自由职业者在进行同等、横向的职业扩展时，会被认为能力和投入度不如男性自由职业者。

Through a series of studies with freelancers in creative fields, we found consistent evidence for this Glass Wall effect. We focused on creative work because freelance employment is most common in these industries, and because creative freelance workers’ clients are often forced to evaluate and hire freelancers with particularly limited quantitative information about their actual competence or commitment, leaving substantial room for bias to drive hiring decisions.

通过对创造领域自由职业者开展的一系列研究，我们发现了玻璃墙效应存在的一致性证据。

For all the potential freelance work has to level the playing field, the Glass Wall still represents a substantial source of gender inequity in the new world of work. It’s up to the research community to continue to explore and document this effect — and it’s up to employers to acknowledge and proactively combat it in their own decision making.

尽管自由职业有可能使竞争环境更加公平，但在新的工作领域，玻璃墙仍然是性别不平等的一个重要来源。研究界需要持续挖掘并记录这种影响，而雇主则需要在自己的决策中意识到这种影响，并积极应对。

 

词汇：

1. ceiling

/ˈsiːlɪŋ/

n. 天花板，吊顶; 上限;

2. freelance

/ˈfriːˌlɑːns/

adj. 特约的，自由职业(者)的

v. 做特约工作，从事自由职业

n. 自由职业者

3.laud

/lɔːd/

vt.赞美，称赞

n.赞美，称赞;颂歌;(lauds)(主要指罗马天主教教堂的)晨祷

4. hierarchy

/ˈhaɪəˌrɑːkɪ/

n. 等级制度; 统治集团; 等级体系

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