日本職場性別失衡
A recent survey by IT Media has revealed that only half of Japanese companies have female managers, as the country continues to struggle with gaping gender imbalances in the workplace.
IT Media最近的一項調查顯示，只有一半的日本公司有女性經理，職場性別失衡在日本仍然很嚴重。
reveal(v.)顯示=suggeststruggle with~努力解決gaping(adj.)(洞或者開口)大的gap(n.)缺口;裂口;隔閡;差距imbalance(n.)不平衡、不均衡、失調gender imbalance性別失衡
The survey, which collected data from 10,000 Japanese companies, found that 48.4 percent lacked any women in management positions, and that women accounted for only 30.5 percent of management roles in companies that did hire them.
這項調查收集了1萬家日本公司的數據，發現48.4％的公司沒有女性出任管理職，而在雇用女性的公司，只有30.5％的管理職是由女性擔任。
imbalance(n.)不平衡、不均衡、失調account for~佔…比例=take up=make up=constitute
Gender imbalance becomes more pronounced at the senior level — 59 percent of companies in the study do not have any female directors.
高階管理職的性別失衡現象更是明顯——研究中59％的公司沒有任何女性董事。
pronounced(adj.)顯著的;明顯的=apparent=obvioussenior(adj.)資深的;高級的
A study by QUICK FactSet in March 2018, which shows only one out of five companies has women on their board of directors, demonstrates how women become increasingly sidelined as they move up the career ladder.
QUICK FactSet於2018年3月進行的一項研究顯示，只有五分之一的公司董事會中有女性，顯示女性在升職時受到更過分的排擠。
board of directors董事會demonstrate(v.)顯示=showincreasingly(adv.)越來越多地、不斷增加地=gradually=more and moresideline(v.)使退出比賽、排擠、使不再發揮重要作用exclude(v.)被排除在外marginalize(v.)使…邊緣化move up the career ladder 升遷、在職場中往上爬
Growth has been slow, too.
女性主管人數成長也很緩慢。
IT Media found that the total number of female managers in Japanese companies has risen by only 0.4 percent in the last year, falling far behind the country’s objective to raise female executive officers at listed companies to 30 percent by 2020.
IT Media發現，去年日本公司的女性經理總人數僅增加了0.4％，遠遠落後於國家目標，即在2020年將上市公司的女性高階主管人數提高至30％。
rise-rose-risen增加=go up=increasefall behind~落後=lag behindlisted companies上市公司
The report found that the industries with the highest percentage of female managers are the pharmaceutical, textile, and postal industries, while men continue to dominate companies that specialize in construction, shipping and logistics.
報告指出，女性經理比例最高的行業是製藥、紡織和郵政行業，而男性則繼續主導著建築、航運和物流公司。
pharmaceutical(adj.)製藥的textile(adj.)紡織的dominate(v.)主宰、支配、佔重要地位logistics(n.)物流