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1、The Business as a Hunting GroundEsther VilarThere are many women who take their place in the working world of today. Secretaries and shop assistants,factory workers and stewardesses not to mention those countless hearty young women who populate the colleges and universities in ever-increasing number
2、s. One might even get the impression that womans nature had undergonea radical change in the last twenty years. Todays young women appear to be less unfair than their mothers. They seem to have decided perhaps out of pity for their victims not to exploit men any more, but to bee, in truth, their par
3、tners.The impression is deceptive. The only truly important act in any womans life is the selection of the right partner. In any other choice she can afford to make a mistake. Consequently, she will look for a man where he works or studies and where she can best observe and judge the necessary mascu
4、line qualities she values. Offices, factories, colleges, and universities are, to her, nothing but gigantic marriage markets.The particular field chosen by any young woman as a hunting ground will depend to a large extent on the level of ine of the man who has previously been her slave, in other wor
5、ds, her father. The daughters of men in the upper ine brackets will choose colleges or universities. These offer the best chances of capturing a man who will earn enough to maintain the standards she has already acquired. Besides, a period of study for forms sake is much more convenient than a tempo
6、rary employment. Girls from less-well-off homes will have to go into factories, shops, offices, or hospitals for a time but again with the same purpose in mind. None of them intend to stay in these jobs for long. They will continue only until marriage or, in cases of hardship, till pregnancy. This o
7、ffers woman one important advantage, any woman who marries nowadays has given up her studies or her job “for the sake of the man of her choice” and “sacrifices” of this nature create obligations.Therefore, when women work and study, it merely serves to falsify statistics and furthermore to enslave m
8、en more hopelessly than ever, because education and the professions mean something very different when applied to women as opposed to men.When a man works it is a matter of life and death, and, as a rule, the first years of his life are decisive. Any man of twenty-five who is not well on his way up
9、the ladder can beconsidered, to all intents and purposes, a hopeless case. At this stage, all his faculties are being developed, and the fight with his petitors is a fight to the death. Behind a mask of business friendship, he is constantly on the watch for anysign of superiority in one of his assoc
10、iates, and he will note its appearance with anxiety. If this same associate shows signs of weakness or indecision, it must be taken advantage of at once. Yet man is only a tiny cog in a gigantic business machine, he himself being in effect exploited at every turn.When he drives others, he drives him
11、self most of all. His orders are really orders from above, passed on by him. If the men at the top occasionally take time to praise him, it is not in order tomake him happy; it is only to spur him on, to stimulate him to greater effort. For man, who was brought up to be proud and honorable, every wo
12、rking day is merely an endless series of humiliations. He shows enthusiasm for products he finds useless, he laughs at jokes he finds tasteless, he expresses opinions which are not his own. Not for a moment is he allowed to forget that the merest oversight may mean demotion, that one slip of the ton
13、gue may spell the end of his career.Yet woman, who is the prime cause of all these struggles, and under whose very eyes these fights take place, just stands aside and watches. Going to work means to her flirting and dates, teasing and banter, with the odd bit of “labor” done for the sake of appearan
14、ces work for which, as a rule, she has no responsibility. She knows that she is only marking time, and even if she does have to go on working for one reason or another, at least she has had years of pleasant dreams. She watches mens battles from a safe distance, occasionally applauding one of the co
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