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excitementisparticularly strong in the buzzy field of chatgpt-like “generative” artificial intelligence (ai), which uses complex algorithms and oodles of data to produce everything from essays to artworks (indeed, this is one area where big tech continues to hire enthusiastically).
在类chatgpt式的“生成式”人工智能（使用复杂算法和海量数据生成文章、艺术作品等各种内容）这一引起广泛关注的领域中，人们的激动情绪尤为强烈（事实上，大型科技公司一直在这一领域如火如荼地招募人才）。
1. buzzy field means a field or area that is currently generating a lot of excitement or attention
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to escape the limitations of the glassceiling— that is, the systemic barriers that limit female employees’ ability to rise up the ranks in corporate environments — many women have increasingly begun turning tofreelanceworking structures. this approach has historically beenlaudedas empowering female workers to craft their own career trajectories and enabling them to pursue the direction and flexibility that works best for them. but does freelance work always improve women’s career outcomes?
为了摆脱玻璃天花板的限制——即限制女性员工在职场环境中晋升能力的系统性障碍——越来越多的女性开始转而选择自由职业者的工作结构。这种方式一直以来都得到了人们的称赞，被认为可以赋予女性员工权力，让她们能够制定自己的职业轨迹，并使她们能够追求最适合自己的工作方向和灵活性。但是，自由职业是否总是能提高女性的职业成就呢?
on the face of it, being your own boss might seem like a great way to sidestep biased managers and promotion systems, and grow your career on your own terms. however, our recent research suggests that freelance work often comes with its own gender inequities.
从表面上看，自己当老板可能是一个很好的方法，可以避开有偏见的经理和晋升制度，按照自己的方式发展自己的职业。然而，我们最近的研究表明，自由职业往往也有其性别不平等问题。
specifically, while corporatehierarchiesoften encourage workers to specialize and grow upwardly, freelancers tend to benefit from starting with a narrower specialty in which they can quickly develop expertise and build up a client base, and then expanding horizontally into other, related domains as they advance their careers. and we found that while avoiding the corporate world may help women avoid the glass ceiling, female freelancers often instead find themselves hitting a glass wall: as they attempt to broaden their roles, female freelancers are evaluated as less competent and committed than male freelancers making equivalent, horizontal career expansions.
具体来说，虽然公司的等级制度经常鼓励员工专业化并向上发展，自由职业者往往受益于从一个较窄的专业领域开始发展，这样他们可以快速发展专业能力，建立起客户基础，然后随着职业生涯的发展，视野扩展到其他相关领域。我们还发现，虽然避开职场可以 助女性避免玻璃天花板，但女性自由职业者往往会发现自己撞上了一堵玻璃墙：当她们试图拓宽自己的职业角色时，女性自由职业者在进行同等、横向的职业扩展时，会被认为能力和投入度不如男性自由职业者。
through a series of studies with freelancers in creative fields, we found consistent evidence for this glass wall effect. we focused on creative work because freelance employment is most common in these industries, and because creative freelance workers’ clients are often forced to evaluate and hire freelancers with particularly limited quantitative information about their actual competence or commitment, leaving substantial room for bias to drive hiring decisions.
通过对创造领域自由职业者开展的一系列研究，我们发现了玻璃墙效应存在的一致性证据。翻译划线句，长按文末小程序码打卡，答案下期公布~
for all the potential freelance work has tolevel the playing field, the glass wall still represents a substantial source of gender inequity in the new world of work. it’s up to the research community to continue to explore and document this effect — and it’s up to employers to acknowledge and proactively combat it in their own decision making.
尽管自由职业有可能使竞争环境更加公平，但在新的工作领域，玻璃墙仍然是性别不平等的一个重要来源。研究界需要持续挖掘并记录这种影响，而雇主则需要在自己的决策中意识到这种影响，并积极应对。
本文节选自：harvard business review（哈佛商业评论）
发布时间：2023.4.11
作者：yonghoon lee
原文标题：how the “glass wall” can hold female freelancers back
词汇积累
1. ceiling
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n. 天花板，吊顶; 上限，最高限度; 最高飞行限度，升限
2. freelance
/?fri??lɑ?ns/
adj. 特约的，自由职业(者)的
v. 做特约工作，从事自由职业
n. 自由职业者
3.laud
/l??d/
vt.赞美，称赞
n.赞美，称赞；颂歌；（lauds）（主要指罗马天主教教堂的）晨祷
4. hierarchy
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n. 等级制度; 统治集团; 等级体系
词组搭配
1.level the playing field 创造公平竞争环境
写作句总结
however, our recent research suggests that freelance work often comes with its own gender inequities.
结构：however, our recent research suggests that … often comes with its own gender inequities.
然而，我们最近的研究表明，…往往也有其性别不平等问题。
例句：however, our recent research suggests that public events often come with their own gender inequities.
阅读理解题
what is the author’s attitude towards freelance work and its impact on women’s career outcomes?
a. supportive, as it offers women the ability to craft their own careers.
b. cautiously optimistic, as it has the potential to level the playing field but may also come with gender ineq

uities.
c. negative, as the glass wall effect limits women’s ability to advance.
d. neutral, as the article simply presents the research findings without taking a stance.
b，第一、五段提到了自由职业的好处，营造公平竞争环境，但二、三、四表明其也有问题。
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