India the most dangerous country to be a woman 印度是對女性最危險的國家

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新聞辭典

1. cite：動詞，舉例，列舉。例句：She cited three reasons why people get into debt.（她列舉人們為何負債的3個原因。）
2. female genital mutilation：名詞，女性割禮（簡寫為FGM）。例句：FGM can cause serious and lifelong physical and psychological harm.（女性割禮可導致嚴重且終身的身心傷害。）
3. child marriage：名詞，童婚。例句：Child marriage violates girls’ rights to health, education and opportunity.（ 童婚危害女童的健康、教育及機會等權利。）

India is the most dangerous country in the world to be a woman because of the high risk of sexual violence and slave labor, a new survey of experts shows. 一份新的專家調查顯示，就身為女性而言，印度是世界上最危險的國家，因為當地性暴力及奴隸勞動的風險很高。

The Thomson Reuters Foundation released its results Tuesday of a survey of 550 experts on women’s issues, finding India to be the most dangerous nation for sexual violence against women, as well as human trafficking for domestic work, forced labor, forced marriage and sexual slavery, among other reasons.

「湯森路透基金會」週二公佈一份550名婦女議題專家的調查結果，發現就婦女性暴力，以及家傭人口販運、強迫勞動、強迫婚姻及性奴隸等風險而言，印度是最危險的國家。

India is also the most dangerous country in the world for cultural traditions that impact women, the survey found, citing acid attacks, female genital mutilation, child marriage and physical abuse. India was the fourth most dangerous country for women in the same survey seven years ago.調查發現，就文化傳統對女性的影響而言，諸如潑酸攻擊、女性割禮、童婚及身體虐待等，印度也是世界上最危險的國家。在7年前的相同調查中，印度是對婦女第4危險的國家。

Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third, followed by Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen and Nigeria. The only western nation in the top 10 was the US. This was directly related to the #MeToo movement. 阿富汗及敘利亞分居2、3名，隨後是索馬利亞、沙烏地阿拉伯、巴基斯坦、剛果民主共和國、葉門及奈及利亞。唯一進入前十名的西方國家是美國。此與「#MeToo」運動有直接關聯。

Women still confronted with yawning gender wage gap 女性仍面臨極大的性別薪資落差

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Heidi Gauthier, left, helps jobseeker Jennifer Thomas look at job postings online at a community center in Washington on June 1.
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In most common occupations women still make less than men doing the same job for an equal amount of hours, according to new data released on April 17. Overall they earn 77 cents for each dollar made annually by men and for some jobs, such as financial manager, the number drops to 66 cents.

“These gender wage gaps are not about women choosing to work less than men — the analysis is comparing apples to apples, men and women who all work full time — and we see that across 40 common occupations, men nearly always earn more than women,” said Ariane Hegewisch, a study director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), a non-profit research organization.

She added that the reasons are varied but discrimination law cases show that women are less likely to be selected for the best jobs, they get hired at a lower rate and don’t get equivalent raises to men over the years.

“Discrimination in who gets hired for the best jobs hits all women but particularly black and Hispanic women,” Hegewisch explained.

(Reuters)

根據四月十七日發布的新數據，在多數常見的職業中，即使兩性工時等長，女性薪資仍比做同樣工作的男性低。總體而言，男性每年每賺一美元，女性就只賺七十七美分，而在某些如財務經理之類的職業，女性收入跌至六十六美分。

非營利研究機構婦女政策研究協會的研究主任赫格維奇說：「性別薪資差距並非與女性選擇做較少工作有關，這份分析是拿蘋果跟蘋果比，男女均是全職工作。我們看到，在四十種常見職業中，男性幾乎總是賺得比女性多。」

她還指出，（男女薪資有落差的）原因各有不同，但性別歧視法律案例顯示，女性較不可能被選上來擔任最好的工作，她們被僱用的比例較低，工作多年後加薪幅度也不如男性。

赫格維奇解釋：「所有女性在爭取最好的工作時均遭受歧視，但黑人和拉丁美洲裔女性更是如此。」

（路透/翻譯：國際新聞中心）

TODAY’S WORDS (今日單字)

1. yawning adj.

極大的 (ji2 da4 de5)

例: There is a yawning discrepancy on the balance sheet.

(帳目收支出現極大的落差。)

2. discrimination n.

歧視 (qi2 shi4)

例: Women are still fighting discrimination in the workplace.

(女性在職場上仍力抗歧視。)

3. raise n.

加薪 (jia1 xin1)

例: I got a raise at last.

(我終於加薪了。)