英語流行話題聽力:Unit83 女性回歸家庭?

[00:00.10] Unit 83 Girls Want to Stay at Home? [00:05.15] Their grandmothers fought for the vote, their mothers battled to have everything, but the upcoming generation of British girls have decided to turn the clock back: They just want to stay at home with their babies. [00:19.43] According to a survey of 5,000-plus teenage girls in Britain, their main ambition is to complete university and return to the homestead. [00:29.47] More than nine out of 10 of the girls believe it should be up to their husbands to provide them with bread. [00:36.29] More than 90 percent of those polled for CosmoGirl magazine's November issue believe it's the man's role to provide the household's money. [00:46.02] And 85 percent maintain they would rather rely on their partner for financial support than be a successful, [00:53.26] independent woman. [00:55.42] Instead of making a career for themselves, girls today plan to be married by the age of 25 -- three years below the current national average of 28.2 years old. [01:08.31] And, although 43 percent of those questioned believe they should continue with their education until they have a university degree, [01:17.17] one in four say that getting married is their number one priority in life. [01:23.22] The supposedly super modern," fun comes first" teenage generation has proved to be remarkably traditional in every area of beliefs: Over 50 percent say they would not dream of having children before seeing a ring on their finger. [01:41.31] The desire to have children is kicking in earlier too. [01:45.41] On average, teenage girls plan to have their first child at 26 and most plan to have one or two more children over the following four years. [01:56.15] The national average now is 1.64 children per couple. [02:02.02]" This is so unsurprising," said author Claire Rayner." The majority of girls have no bright future and nothing very special to look forward to. [02:12.10] All they can hope for is their own man and their own baby."" This survey does not indicate that the battles of feminism have been lost, [02:20.39]" Rayner added," It was never opposed to marriage or children. It's about equal chances for women to do what they wanted to do, [02:29.00] which is exactly what these girls are choosing to do."

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