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霞姐上大学那会儿,微观经济学老师叫做王福重先生,还算是经济学界一个响当当的人物。
来给我们大讲特讲美女经济学。我们都傻傻的睁着大眼睛听着,哇噻,老师说的好有道理啊,然后所有人都感叹:哇噻,老师的助教都好漂亮哦,最喜欢上助教的习题课了。
老师说:我把这些理论都写在了我的书《美女经济学》里,你们可以去阅读。结果那个年代笨死的我们居然没有人主动去买这本书来读,只顾着欣赏美女助教了,真是太不长进了。
直到后来看到有人说林志玲很好的诠释了美女经济学,无论任何东西只要是她代言的都好卖。她说话再嗲都不影响经济效益呢。才让我再次想起了这位酷炫帅呆的微观经济学老师,也去膜拜了一下他和郎咸平同台的英姿。后来有幸阅读了一本书《为什么不向美丽征税》,也被其中的各种奇葩经济学思路亮瞎了。
然而,十月第一期的经济学人,读到《Girl power》这一篇的时候,霞姐前所未有的激动,一口气读完,觉得这个文章的角度太有趣了,切入太妙了,从常人不太关注的角度看待经济效益,投资回报。棒极了,读完跟吃了火锅一样酸爽……
一个副标题道出了文章真谛: How having a daughter boosts investors’ returns生女儿还能让投资者的投资回报激增。竟然有这等好事?啥也别说了,生一万个女儿。嗯,生一万个女儿估计会雇佣10万个女高管吧!女高管多公司就成功哈哈哈。
曾经那位号称不投资女CEO,也不投资合伙人都是女的的男CEO的VC,格局明显不够啊……
第一步:解决高频单词
evangelist [ɪˈvændʒəlɪst]
n.福音传教士;圣经新约福音书的作者,福音传道者
receptive [rɪˈsɛptɪv]
adj.善于接受的;能容纳的;有接受力的;感受的,感官的
assertion [əˈsɜ:rʃn]
n.主张;声称;使用;明确肯定
characteristic [ˌkærɪktə'rɪstɪk]
n.性质;特性,特征,特色,[数](对数的)首数;独特性
predominantly [prɪˈdɑ:mɪnəntli]
adv.占主导地位地;显著地;占优势地
hidebound [ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd]
adj.对新的思想、方法等格格不入的,守旧的,思想偏狭的
convention [kənˈvɛnʃən]
n.会议;全体与会者;国际公约;惯例,习俗,规矩
parenthood [ˈperənthʊd]
n.亲子关系;父母身分
sound [saʊnd]
adj.健全的;合理的;完好的,无损的;明智的adv.彻底地,充分地
acknowledge [əkˈnɑ:lɪdʒ]
vt.承认;鸣谢;对…打招呼;告知已收到
第二步:精读重点段落
(Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦)
How having a daughter boosts investors’ returns
[1] RICHARD NESBITT, a former chief operating officer at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, has long been an evangelist for women in business. In “Results at the Top”, a book he wrote with Barbara Annis, he describes his efforts to convince men to promote women. When speaking to bosses, he stresses data showing that companies with more senior women are more successful. But he has noticed that men with daughters tend to be more receptive to his message. At least for venture-capital (VC) firms, recent research confirms this observation, as well as the assertion that gender diversity boosts performance.
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 加拿大帝国商业银行
- evangelist [ɪˈvændʒəlɪst] n.福音传教士;圣经新约福音书的作者,福音传道者
- receptive [rɪˈsɛptɪv] adj.善于接受的;能容纳的;有接受力的;感受的,感官的
- assertion [əˈsɜ:rʃn] n.主张;声称;使用;明确肯定
[2] Paul Gompers and Sophie Wang at Harvard University wanted to determine whether VC firms with more women managers do better. Answering this question is tricky—firms that hire more women may have other characteristics that lead to success. VC investing remains a predominantly male activity. In the authors’ sample of 988 VC funds in 301 firms, around 8% of new hires were women. Very few firms hired more than one-woman manager (see chart).
Managing partners who hire more women may be less hidebound by convention—a good trait for someone investing in innovative technologies. The authors needed a way to measure the impact of women on success independent of other factors. Ideally, a random factor would influence the number of women hired by a firm. The authors looked at the number of daughters among partners’ children.
- characteristic [ˌkærɪktə'rɪstɪk] n.性质;特性,特征,特色,[数](对数的)首数;独特性
- predominantly [prɪˈdɑ:mɪnəntli] adv.占主导地位地;显著地;占优势地
- hidebound [ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd] adj.对新的思想、方法等格格不入的,守旧的,思想偏狭的
- convention [kənˈvɛnʃən] n.会议;全体与会者;国际公约;惯例,习俗,规矩
[3] Parenthood changes perspectives. VC partners with one extra daughter rather than an extra son employed on average almost two percentage points more women managers. This led to a 24% higher probability that a firm would have a senior female manager. The researchers reasoned that a link between daughters and success could be attributed to a greater number of women managers.
- parenthood [ˈperənthʊd] n.亲子关系;父母身分
[4] A firm where a partner has an extra daughter rather than an extra son had a 2.9% higher chance that its deals would be a success (defined as an initial public offering or other profitable sale of a company the firm had backed). Such firms also have higher internal rates of return. Hiring women is indeed a sound business strategy.
- sound [saʊnd] adj.健全的;合理的;完好的,无损的;明智的adv.彻底地,充分地
第三步:攻克必学语法
doing作名词后置定语
When speaking to bosses, he stresses data showing that companies with more senior women are more successful.
这个句子when引导的是时间状语从句,从句内部出现了省略,省略完之后从句内部剩下doing,这里要求句子的主语he必须是speaking to bosses这个doing动作的发出者。
这就是doing的特性,要求自己的修饰对象必须是doing动作发出者。
继续往后看主句,主语是he,谓语动词是stresses,宾语是data。
但是这里data后面的内容就让很多人觉得不舒服了,其实这里showing that…这就是一个doing的结构紧跟名词data后面作data的修饰语。
他强调数据,什么样的数据呢?显示that从句内容的数据。
我们再来看that从句内部啥内容呢?从句内部主语是companies,with more senior women是介词短语修饰companies。谓语动词是系动词are,表语more successful。意思是“有更多女高管的公司更加成功”
整个句子的意思是:当和老板们聊天的时候,他强调数据,强调那些显示有更多女高管的企业更加成功的数据。
关于doing作为名词后置定语要求名词是doing动作发出者的情况,其实还有更多,有一种特别典型的搭配背后就是遵循的这种规则,see sb doing sth。
I see Andy running in the schoolyard. 这个句子中running这个doing就是Andy的修饰语,Andy是running动作的发出者。
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(Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦)
Girl Power
How having a daughter boosts investors’ returns
[1] RICHARD NESBITT, a former chief operating officer at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, has long been an evangelist for women in business. In “Results at the Top”, a book he wrote with Barbara Annis, he describes his efforts to convince men to promote women. When speaking to bosses, he stresses data showing that companies with more senior women are more successful. But he has noticed that men with daughters tend to be more receptive to his message. At least for venture-capital (VC) firms, recent research confirms this observation, as well as the assertion that gender diversity boosts performance.
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 加拿大帝国商业银行
- evangelist [ɪˈvændʒəlɪst] n.福音传教士;圣经新约福音书的作者,福音传道者
- receptive [rɪˈsɛptɪv] adj.善于接受的;能容纳的;有接受力的;感受的,感官的
- assertion [əˈsɜ:rʃn] n.主张;声称;使用;明确肯定
[2] Paul Gompers and Sophie Wang at Harvard University wanted to determine whether VC firms with more women managers do better. Answering this question is tricky—firms that hire more women may have other characteristics that lead to success. VC investing remains a predominantly male activity. In the authors’ sample of 988 VC funds in 301 firms, around 8% of new hires were women. Very few firms hired more than one-woman manager (see chart).
Managing partners who hire more women may be less hidebound by convention—a good trait for someone investing in innovative technologies. The authors needed a way to measure the impact of women on success independent of other factors. Ideally, a random factor would influence the number of women hired by a firm. The authors looked at the number of daughters among partners’ children.
- characteristic [ˌkærɪktə'rɪstɪk] n.性质;特性,特征,特色,[数](对数的)首数;独特性
- predominantly [prɪˈdɑ:mɪnəntli] adv.占主导地位地;显著地;占优势地
- hidebound [ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd] adj.对新的思想、方法等格格不入的,守旧的,思想偏狭的
- convention [kənˈvɛnʃən] n.会议;全体与会者;国际公约;惯例,习俗,规矩
[3] Parenthood changes perspectives. VC partners with one extra daughter rather than an extra son employed on average almost two percentage points more women managers. This led to a 24% higher probability that a firm would have a senior female manager. The researchers reasoned that a link between daughters and success could be attributed to a greater number of women managers.
- parenthood [ˈperənthʊd] n.亲子关系;父母身分
[4] A firm where a partner has an extra daughter rather than an extra son had a 2.9% higher chance that its deals would be a success (defined as an initial public offering or other profitable sale of a company the firm had backed). Such firms also have higher internal rates of return. Hiring women is indeed a sound business strategy.
- sound [saʊnd] adj.健全的;合理的;完好的,无损的;明智的adv.彻底地,充分地
[5] Mr Nesbitt notes that this finding matches one of the main arguments of his book. Gender diversity in business increases diversity of thought, which leads to better decisions. He adds that, on its own, the paper is unlikely to lead to more women in executive offices. To achieve that, men need not only to accept the case for women intellectually, but to acknowledge that they personally need to act to promote them. Ideally, that should not take the birth of a daughter.
- intellectually adv.知性上,智力上
- acknowledge [əkˈnɑ:lɪdʒ] vt.承认;鸣谢;对…打招呼;告知已收到
- ideally [aɪˈdiəli] adv.理想地;完美地;观念上地;理论上地
evangelist [ɪˈvændʒəlɪst]
n.福音传教士;圣经新约福音书的作者,福音传道者
receptive [rɪˈsɛptɪv]
adj.善于接受的;能容纳的;有接受力的;感受的,感官的
assertion [əˈsɜ:rʃn]
n.主张;声称;使用;明确肯定
characteristic [ˌkærɪktə'rɪstɪk]
n.性质;特性,特征,特色,[数](对数的)首数;独特性
predominantly [prɪˈdɑ:mɪnəntli]
adv.占主导地位地;显著地;占优势地
hidebound [ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd]
adj.对新的思想、方法等格格不入的,守旧的,思想偏狭的
convention [kənˈvɛnʃən]
n.会议;全体与会者;国际公约;惯例,习俗,规矩
parenthood [ˈperənthʊd]
n.亲子关系;父母身分
sound [saʊnd]
adj.健全的;合理的;完好的,无损的;明智的adv.彻底地,充分地
acknowledge [əkˈnɑ:lɪdʒ]
vt.承认;鸣谢;对…打招呼;告知已收到
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Girl power
How having a daughter boosts investors’ returns
[1] RICHARD NESBITT, a former chief operating officer at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, has long been an evangelist for women in business. In “Results at the Top”, a book he wrote with Barbara Annis, he describes his efforts to convince men to promote women. When speaking to bosses, he stresses data showing that companies with more senior women are more successful. But he has noticed that men with daughters tend to be more receptive to his message. At least for venture-capital (VC) firms, recent research confirms this observation, as well as the assertion that gender diversity boosts performance.
[2] Paul Gompers and Sophie Wang at Harvard University wanted to determine whether VC firms with more women managers do better. Answering this question is tricky—firms that hire more women may have other characteristics that lead to success. VC investing remains a predominantly male activity. In the authors’ sample of 988 VC funds in 301 firms, around 8% of new hires were women. Very few firms hired more than one-woman manager (see chart).
Managing partners who hire more women may be less hidebound by convention—a good trait for someone investing in innovative technologies. The authors needed a way to measure the impact of women on success independent of other factors. Ideally, a random factor would influence the number of women hired by a firm. The authors looked at the number of daughters among partners’ children.
[3] Parenthood changes perspectives. VC partners with one extra daughter rather than an extra son employed on average almost two percentage points more women managers. This led to a 24% higher probability that a firm would have a senior female manager. The researchers reasoned that a link between daughters and success could be attributed to a greater number of women managers.
[4] A firm where a partner has an extra daughter rather than an extra son had a 2.9% higher chance that its deals would be a success (defined as an initial public offering or other profitable sale of a company the firm had backed). Such firms also have higher internal rates of return. Hiring women is indeed a sound business strategy.
[5] Mr Nesbitt notes that this finding matches one of the main arguments of his book. Gender diversity in business increases diversity of thought, which leads to better decisions. He adds that, on its own, the paper is unlikely to lead to more women in executive offices. To achieve that, men need not only to accept the case for women intellectually, but to acknowledge that they personally need to act to promote them. Ideally, that should not take the birth of a daughter.
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