【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 d or longer, it39。s quite 你可以在十八個月如果你想要,或者更長,很flexible and it would be up to you. 靈活,它將取決于你。ANDREW: Mmm. So what does the parttime course involve? 安德魯:嗯。兼職課程包括什么?MONICA: For that you would join an evening class and have a lecture twice a week. 莫妮卡:你會加入一個夜校和每周兩次講座。Then, you39。d have to attend a seminar or discussion workshop one 然后,你必須參加一個研討會或討論車間一個weekend a month. 周末一個月。ANDREW: What kind of coursework would I have to do? 安德魯:我要做什么樣的課程?MONICA: Well, it39。s a mixture. You39。d be expected to write an essay each month, 莫妮卡:好了,這是一個混合物。你會將每個月寫一篇文章,which counts towards your final assessment. You have a case study to do 對你最后的評估,計數(shù)。你有一個案例研究by the end of the course, which might involve doing a survey or 課程結(jié)束,可能包括或做一個調(diào)查something like that, and also you need to hand in a short report every 這樣,也你需要交一個簡短的報告four weeks. 四個星期。ANDREW: So, that39。s quite a lot of work, then, on top of working every day. It sounds 安德魯:那么,這是相當(dāng)多的工作,然后,每天最重要的工作。這聽起來like a lot of studying and really tiring. 像很多學(xué)習(xí),很累人的。MONICA: Yes, you certainly wouldn39。t have much free time! MONICA: That39。s where you get the opportunity to study fulltime for short periods. 莫尼卡:是的,你當(dāng)然不會有太多的時間!莫妮卡:這就是你有機(jī)會學(xué)習(xí)全職在短時間內(nèi)。That way you can cover a lot of coursework and attend lectures and 那樣你就可以覆蓋大量的課程和參加講座和seminars during the day. And each module lasts for one term, say, about 白天的研討會。說,每個模塊持續(xù)一個學(xué)期twelve weeks at a time. There are obvious advantages in this the main one 12周。有明顯的優(yōu)勢——最主要的一個being that you can study in a much more intensive way, which suits some 是,你可以在更密集的研究方式,適合一些people much better. 人好多了。ANDREW: And how many of these 39。modules39。 would I have to do to get the diploma? 安德魯:我這些“模塊”如何獲得文憑有什么關(guān)系呢?MONICA: The current programme is two modules and then you have to choose a 莫妮卡:當(dāng)前的計劃是兩個模塊,然后你必須選擇一個topic to work in more depth but you can base that on your job, and so you 主題更深入地工作,但你可以在你的工作基礎(chǔ),所以你don39。t need to be away from the office, and how long it takes is up to you. 不需要離開辦公室,需要多長時間是取決于你。ANDREW: The important thing is that you don39。t have to study and work. You can focus 安德魯:重要的是,你不需要學(xué)習(xí)和工作。你可以專注on one thing at a time. 在一件事上。MONICA: Yes, I can see that. It certainly sounds attractive! It would be more 莫尼卡:是的,我可以看到。當(dāng)然聽起來誘人!它會更expensive, though. I mean, I39。d have to support myself without pay for each 不過,貴。我的意思是,我必須支持自己沒有支付module. 模塊。ANDREW: That39。s true, so that might be a problem for you. Look, why don39。t you talk 安德魯:這是真的,這可能是一個問題?？?你為什么不說話this over with your employers and ... 這個和你的雇主和…SECTION 4 第四節(jié)OK, so we39。ve been looking at the attitudes of various social and cultural groups towards 好的,我們一直在研究各種社會和文化團(tuán)體的態(tài)度the management of their personal finances how important they feel it is to save money, 個人財務(wù)的管理,為了省錢,他們覺得它是多么重要,and what they save their money for. One aspect that we haven39。t yet considered is gender. 他們存錢。一個方面,我們還沒有考慮性別。So if we consider gender issues we39。re basically asking whether men and women have 如果我們考慮性別問題我們基本上要求男性和女性是否有different attitudes towards saving money, and whether they save money for different 不同的態(tài)度存錢,他們是否省錢為不同things: 件事:Back in 1928 the British writer George Bernard Shaw wrote in his Intelligent Women39。s 早在1928年,英國作家喬治蕭伯納在他聰明的女子Guide to Socialism and Capitalism that A man is supposed to understand polities, 指導(dǎo)社會主義和資本主義,一個人應(yīng)該理解政治,economics and finance and is therefore unwilling to accept essential instruction. 39。 lie also 經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)和金融學(xué),因此不愿意接受必要的指令。的謊言也said, 39。A woman, having fewer pretensions, is far more willing to learn39。. Now, though these 說,一個女人,有更少的自命不凡,更愿意學(xué)習(xí)”。現(xiàn)在,雖然這些days people might question a lot of the assumptions contained in those statements, 天人們會質(zhì)疑這些語句中包含大量的假設(shè),recent research does suggest that there are some quite fundamental differences 最近的研究顯示,有一些根本性的差異between men and women in their attitudes to economic matters. 男人和女人之間對經(jīng)濟(jì)問題的態(tài)度。Let39。s look at what men and women actually save for. Research studies of women in North 讓我們看看什么男人和女人實(shí)際上保存。研究婦女在北America have found that women are far more likely to save for their children39。s 美國發(fā)現(xiàn),女性更有可能為孩子的保存education and they are also more likely to save up in order to buy a house one day. The same studies have found that men, on the other hand, tend to save for a car, which by the 教育,他們也更可能攢錢為了買房子一天。同樣的研究發(fā)現(xiàn),男性,另一方面,往往除了一輛車,它的way takes a surprisingly large amount of the household budget in North America. But the 驚人的方式將在北美的家庭預(yù)算。但是,other main priority for men when saving money is their retirement. When they39。re earning, 其他主要優(yōu)先考慮男性當(dāng)存錢是他們的退休。當(dāng)他們獲得,they39。re far more likely to put money aside for their old age than women are. 他們更有可能把錢為他們的年齡比女性。Now this is rather disturbing, because in fact the need for women to save for their old age 這是相當(dāng)令人不安,因?yàn)槭聦?shí)上女性需要保存為他們老有所依is far greater than for men. Let39。s consider this for a moment. To start with, it is a fact that 遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)大于男性。讓我們考慮一下這個。首先,這是一個事實(shí)throughout the world, women are likely to live many years longer than men, so they need 整個世界,女性可能比男性多活許多年,所以他們需要money to support them during this time. Since women are likely to be the ones left 錢來支持他們在這段時間。因?yàn)榕院芸赡軙x開的without a partner in old age, they may therefore have to pay for nursing care, because 沒有老的合作伙伴,他們可能因此被迫支付護(hù)理,因?yàn)閠hey don39。t have a spouse to look after them. Furthermore the high divorce rates in North 他們沒有配偶照顧他們。此外,在北高離婚率America are creating a poverty cycle for women. It is the divorced women who will most 美國正在創(chuàng)造一個貧困循環(huán)。這是離婚婦女誰會最多often have to look after the children and thus they need more money to look. after not 經(jīng)常要照顧小孩,因此他們需要更多的錢。后不just themselves but others. 只是自己但他人。So what can be done about this situation? The population in North America is likely to 那么,這種情況下能做些什么呢?人口在北美可能contain an increasing number of elderly women. The research indicates that at present 包含越來越多的老年婦女。目前的研究表明for women it takes a crisis to make them think about their future financial situation.