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The work that women do has always been fundamental to the global economy. Bu

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问题     The work that women do has always been fundamental to the global economy. But their contribution hasn’t registered with traditional economic institutions because so much of it has been nonmonetary. In fact, one common economic term for nonmonetary work is inactivity. It’s that attitude that has made women’s work invisible. No wonder the battle cry of the women’s movement was equality.
    By moving into the world of paid work, in rich countries at least, women have indeed upped their visibility. But I doubt that you could make a very conclusive case that they have become equal to men. The United Nations estimated in 1993 that economic equality between the sexes would take, at the pace then prevailing, 1,000 years to achieve. The media love female high fliers, the handful of company directors and CEOs who are trotted out time and again as evidence of the gains women have made. But they are not truly representative of the average working woman, saddled with a double burden as she tries to balance her job with life as a mother and homemaker.
    This balancing act is a formula for unfulfillment. It would have been far more equitable for women in the long run if it was the nonmonetary work that had been shared out — if, for example, men spent more than a fraction of the time with their children that their wives do. And I believe that, in practice, most women would prefer simple fairness to economic equality. As my friend Hazel Henderson says, our kids didn’t want to see us turn into the best bloody men.
    Still, it’s very much a trend to focus on the global economic impact of women, particularly as it’s felt in the small-scale initiatives that women have established around the world. Dealing directly with economically marginalized communities and cooperatives around the globe, I’ve seen how women hold a society together. Economic opportunity means much more to them than money. It also fosters the fundamentals of self-esteem education, health care, cultural continuity and the chance to protect the past while shaping a future.
    A sense of community is one of the so-called "feminine" values that ethical business thinkers put forward in their quest for new paradigms. These values reflect intimate personal and cultural attributes that are in many ways the reverse of the global-market syndrome, which is all about distance, impersonality and the movement of capital regardless of human consequence. You don’t have to wonder what would happen if we could feminize economic activity and economic relations. There is already plenty of evidence in the work of some pioneering female thinkers whose concern about the society their children will inherit promises to fundamentally change global economics.
    In fact, most of the financial sector’s innovative thinking on socially responsive investing has come from women. Why am I not surprised? Globalization is a mug’s game being played in a Man’s world. I can imagine a day when compassion counts as much as cash flow. After all, the challenges that confront the business world already demand a holistic perspective. And who is going to be best equipped to face that future? [br] The fifth paragraph suggests that in economic activity and economic relations, women______.
选项 A、are much more compassionate than men
B、are less qualified than men
C、can make a lot of intimate friends
D、attach much importance to economic consequences
答案 C
解析 根据文章第五段前两句“A sense of community is…and the movement of capital regardless ofhuman consequence．”可知，对社区的集体感是所谓的“女性化的”价值观的内容之一，这是伦理思想家在努力构建新理论范式的过程中提出来的。这些价值观反应的是亲密的人际关系和文化属性，在很多方面都与全球市场综合征针锋相对，后者都是关于疏远、冷漠和资本流动，全然不顾人性后果。据此判断，答案是C。
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