万花筒 Kaleidoscope2007-08-11&08-12, 赚钱, 巾帼不让须眉

Were you surprised to hear younger women are earning more than men? I actually wasn't surprised. 25-year-old Lindsay Mure runs her own networking site for professional women. She thinks one reason young women like herself make more than men in big cities is because they are putting off marriage longer.

We are not having kids as early as we used to. We are not settling down , at, you know, 21,22 like our parents and our grandparents before them. So it really gives us more time to develop our career.

And more time to develop their brains. Andrew Beveridge, the report's author says more women are graduating college than men and often flocking¹ to urban areas.

Women have gone ahead， gotten better educated than men and they are able in certain ways to navigate² better in the new economy.

Remember those Sex and the City gals³, they often dished about making more money than men. I know lots of women who make more money than their husbands. Sex and the City not only helped us to improve our sex lives but our career lives.

Karen Salmansohn, author of the 30-Day Plan to Whip⁴ Your Career Into Submission⁵ says like in the TV show women in big cities benefit from the support of other high-achieving professional women.

It's the Marines mentality⁶ where women are kept at their highest level because they are surrounded by other women who are living at their highest level.

Are you okay with this making more money than men? Absolutely. Women may be fine with it. But what do the guys think?

You know, you can let the other half make the money for a while. Good for them. They can take the lead for a while.

As they get older, women traditionally have earned less than men.

Girl power, grow power ? Totally.

The question is whether the girl-power generation's earning power can continue when they grow gray.

Kelly Wallace, CBS News, New York.

1 flocking   

n.羊毛屑，棉屑，植绒花纹v.群集，成群结队而行( flock的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Firms are flocking after the government's offer of money to help them move to areas needing industry. 许多公司都想得到政府提供的旨在帮助他们迁向需要工业的地区的资助。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mournful fancies came flocking on her mind, in crowds. 悲伤的幻想便纷纷涌上她的心头。 来自辞典例句

2 navigate   

v.航行，飞行；导航，领航

参考例句：

• He was the first man to navigate the Atlantic by air.他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。
• Such boats can navigate on the Nile.这种船可以在尼罗河上航行。

3 gals   

abbr.gallons （复数）加仑（液量单位）n.女孩，少女( gal的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. 这时，吉姆手里提着一个锡皮桶，嘴中唱着“布法罗的女娃们”蹦蹦跳跳地从大门口跑出来。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
• An' dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird's tastes an' no sense at all. 他们想要的是耗子般的小姑娘，胃口小得像雀子，一点儿见识也没有。 来自飘（部分）

4 whip   

n.鞭子，鞭打，奶油甜食，车夫，组织秘书；vt.抽出，鞭打，捆扎，搅拌，打败；vi.突然移动，飘浮

参考例句：

• The cruel man lashed the horse with his whip.那个粗暴的人用鞭子抽马。
• The cruel master beat his slaves with a whip.残酷的主人鞭打他的奴隶。

5 submission   

n.服从，投降；温顺，谦虚；提出

参考例句：

• The defeated general showed his submission by giving up his sword.战败将军缴剑表示投降。
• No enemy can frighten us into submission.任何敌人的恐吓都不能使我们屈服。

6 mentality   

n.心理，思想，脑力

参考例句：

• He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
• Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。