Пособие по переводу английской научно-технической литературы. Орлова Г.Д. - 56 стр.

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cities less dangerous, teaching one another, raising our children, visiting, comforting,

healing, feeding one another, dancing, making music, telling stories, inventing things,

and governing ourselves. But much of the essential activity people have always

undertaken to raise and educate their families, to enjoy themselves, to give pleasure to

others, and to advance the general welfare is not packaged as jobs. Until we rethink

work and decide what human beings are meant to do in the age of robots and what basic

economic claims on society human beings have by virtue of being here, there will never

be enough jobs.

– From “The end of jobs”, by Richard J. Barnet, senior fellow at the Institute for

Policy Studies, in Harper’s magazine, September 1993.

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Men and Women in Engineering

Women are more likely than men to choose engineering because they are good at

math and science, while men are more likely to say they entered the field because they

thought it was interesting and offered good career opportunities and security. These are

among the differences between the sexes discovered in a survey the Society of Women

Engineers conducted.

Members of 22 engineering societies were surveyed in 1992 to determine gender

differences in the profession. More than half (51 percent) of the men respondents said

they felt a part of management, compared to only 32 percent of the women. Men also

say they have fewer layers of authority between themselves and the top. Persisting

across matched age groups, these differences were not a function of the older average

age of the men surveyed.

Men are much more likely than women to believe that people in their company are

treated equitably; women are three times as likely as men to feel that there are

consistent inequities. Fewer than 20 percent of the men said they were aware of

incidents where people have been “overlooked” for advancement, while 58 percent of

women knew of such incidents affecting women and 28 percent were aware of incidents

affecting minorities.