千奇百趣学英文01.19

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Report: More men get economic boost from marriage
分析：越来越多的男士因为结婚而进帐



NEW YORK – Historically, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women. Nowadays it's men who are increasingly getting the biggest economic boost from tying the knot, according to a new analysis of census data.


The changes, summarized in a Pew Research Center report being released Tuesday, reflect the proliferation of working wives over the past 40 years — a period in which American women outpaced men in both education and earnings growth. A larger share of today's men, compared with their 1970 counterparts, are married to women whose education and income exceed their own, and a larger share of women are married to men with less education and income.


The loss of those jobs, said Coontz, "is something no feminist would take pleasure in."
Yet she said the trends also reflected the fact that many husbands no longer feel compelled to be their families' sole breadwinner and are embracing a bigger share of household responsibilities and child-raising.


The shifts in earnings capacity coincided with a marked decline in the share of Americans who are married. Among U.S.-born 30- to 44-year-olds, 60 percent were married in 2007, compared with 84 percent in 1970. For African-Americans, the rates were even lower — 33 percent of black women and 44 percent of black men were married in 2007, the report said.



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纽约报道——长期的惯例来讲，结婚是女士的经济保障。时至今日，戴上领带对于男士来讲，越来越使他们远离经济危机，根据一份调查数据的分析。

这样的变化，在星期二发表的排名中央研究报告中总结出，反映了过去40年来有工作的妻子增加的趋势——这段期间，美国的女士在教育和收入方面都超过男士。同是1970年代，今天很大一部分的男士，都与教育和收入水平比自己高的女士结婚。也有一大部分的女士跟教育与收入比自己低的男士结婚。

康斯姬说道：“失业，对于一些非平等主义的人非常受乐。”然而，这一趋势也反映了一个事实，很大一部分的丈夫不再强迫性觉得自己是养家活口的唯一支柱，不再觉得自己承受很大养家和养育孩子的责任。

收入上的转变，同时也是美国结婚率的显著的下降。在30-44岁的美国出生人当中，百分之六十已经在2007年结婚了，与1970年比较，当时是百分之八十四。对于非洲籍美国人，比率更低，大约百分之三十三的黑人妇女，跟百分之四十四的黑人男士在2007年已经结婚，根据报道。


Useful Expression

• proliferation [prEu’lifE‘reiFEn]
  n.
  增殖, 分芽繁殖

• outpace [aut‘peis]
  vt.
  超过...速度, 赶过

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