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Woman

Can

Learn

Anything

a

Man

Can男人會(huì)的，女人也能學(xué)會(huì)

When

I

was

a

kid,

everything

in

my

bedroom

was

pink.

I

have

two

sisters

and

we

had

a

complete

miniature

kitchen,

a

herd

of

My

Little

Ponies

and

several

Barbie

and

Ken

dolls.

We

didn’t

have

any

toy

trucks,

G.

I.

Joes

or

basketballs.

We

did

have

a

Wiffle-ball

set,

but

you

would

have

been

hard-pressed

to

find

it

in

our

playroom.

Tomboys

we

weren’t.

當(dāng)我還是個(gè)小孩時(shí)，我臥室里的所有東西都是粉紅色的。我有兩個(gè)姐姐，我們有一個(gè)一應(yīng)俱全的微型廚房、一群小矮種馬和一些芭比娃娃、肯娃娃。我們沒(méi)有玩具卡車、玩具大兵、籃球。我們確實(shí)有一套空心棒球，但是很難在我們的游戲室中找到。畢竟我們不是假小子。

So

some

people

may

find

it

ironic

that

I

grew

up

to

be

a

mechanical

engineer.

In

fact,

I

am

the

only

female

engineer

at

my

company.

In

order

to

get

my

college

degree,

I

had

to

take

a

lot

of

math

and

science

classes.

I

also

had

to

work

with

a

team

of

students

as

part

of

a

national

competition

to

convert

a

gas-guzzling

SUV

into

a

hybrid

electric

vehicle

—

that’s

where

I

learned

how

to

fix

cars.

I’m

proud

to

say

that

I

got

A’s

in

all

my

classes,

including

multivariable

calculus

and

differential

equations.

I’ve

always

been

pretty

good

at

math

and

design,

but

I

didn't

understand

where

that

could

take

me.

I

was

expected

to

go

to

college,

but

no

one

ever

told

me

I’d

make

a

good

engineer

someday.

因而一些人或許會(huì)對(duì)我成長(zhǎng)為一個(gè)機(jī)械工程師而倍感驚訝。事實(shí)上，我是我們公司唯一的一名女工程師。為了獲得我的大學(xué)文憑，我不得不上許多數(shù)學(xué)和自然科學(xué)課程。我也不得不和一小組學(xué)生合作去參加一個(gè)全國(guó)競(jìng)賽——將一輛耗油特多的運(yùn)動(dòng)型多用途汽車改裝為一輛混合電動(dòng)汽車——正是這樣我學(xué)會(huì)了修車。我很驕傲我門門功課都是A，包括多元微積分和微分方程。我的數(shù)學(xué)和設(shè)計(jì)一向很好，雖然我不明白這會(huì)給我?guī)?lái)什么結(jié)果。家里人期盼我去上大學(xué)，但沒(méi)有人告訴過(guò)我我將來(lái)會(huì)成為一名優(yōu)秀的工程師。

When

I

was

in

high

school,

I

didn’t

know

the

first

thing

about

engineering.

I

couldn’t

have

distinguished

a

transmission

from

an

alternator.

The

car

I

drove

needed

some

work

but

I

was

afraid

to

take

it

to

the

mechanic.

Because

honestly,

the

mechanic

could

have

shown

me

an

electric

can

opener

and

said,

“This

is

part

of

your

car

and

it’s

broken

—

pay

me

to

fix

it,”

and

I

wouldn’t

have

known

any

better.

在我還在上高中時(shí)，我對(duì)工程一竅不通。我根本分辨不出哪一個(gè)是變速器，哪一個(gè)是交流發(fā)電機(jī)。我開(kāi)的車壞了需要修理，但我害怕讓機(jī)修工給我修一下。因?yàn)檎f(shuō)實(shí)話，機(jī)修工可能會(huì)給我看一個(gè)電動(dòng)開(kāi)罐器，然后對(duì)我說(shuō)：“這是你車上的零部件，壞了——給我錢，我替你修,",我不會(huì)清楚這是否是個(gè)敲詐。

At

the

end

of

my

junior

year

of

high

school,

I

heard

about

a

summer

program

designed

to

interest

girls

in

engineering.

The

six-week

program

was

free,

and

students

were

given

college

credit

and

a

dorm

room

at

the

University

of

Maryland.

I

applied

to

the

program,

not

because

I

wanted

to

be

an

engineer,

but

because

I

was

craving

independence

and

wanted

to

get

out

of

my

parents’

house

for

six

weeks.

我在高中第三年末的時(shí)候，聽(tīng)說(shuō)了一個(gè)暑期班，專門致力于提升女孩對(duì)工程的興趣。課程長(zhǎng)達(dá)六周，完全免費(fèi)，并且參加的學(xué)生還能獲得大學(xué)學(xué)分以及住在馬蘭里大學(xué)的學(xué)生宿舍里。我報(bào)了那個(gè)暑期班，并不是因?yàn)槲蚁氤蔀橐幻こ處?，而是由于我渴望?dú)立，希望能夠搬離父母的房子自己生活六周。

I

was

accepted

to

the

program

and

I

earned

six

engineering

credits.

The

next

year

I

entered

the

university

as

an

engineering

major.

Five

years

later

I

had

a

degree

and

three

decent

job

offers.

我被那個(gè)暑期班接受了并且獲得了6個(gè)工程學(xué)分。第二年我進(jìn)入馬蘭里大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)，主修工程學(xué)。五年后我獲得了學(xué)位并且得到了3個(gè)像樣的工作機(jī)會(huì)。

I

can’t

help

shuddering

when

I

hear

about

studies

that

show

that

women

are

at

a

disadvantage

when

it

comes

to

math.

They

imply

that

I

am

somehow

abnormal.

I’m

not,

but

I

do

know

that

if

I

hadn’t

stumbled

into

that

summer

program,

I

wouldn’t

be

an

engineer.

每當(dāng)聽(tīng)到研究表明女人在學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)方面處于劣勢(shì)時(shí)我總是情不自禁地戰(zhàn)栗。這暗示我有點(diǎn)不正常。我并非不正常，但我確實(shí)知道如果不是因?yàn)橐粋€(gè)偶然的機(jī)遇參加了那個(gè)暑期班，我絕不會(huì)成為一名工程師。

When

I

was

growing

up

I

was

told,

as

many

students

are,

to

do

what

I

am

best

at.

But

I

didn’t

know

what

that

was.

Most

people

think

that

when

you

are

good

at

something,

it

comes

easily

to

you.

But

this

is

what

I

discovered:

just

because

a

subject

is

difficult

to

learn,

it

does

not

mean

you

are

not

good

at

it.

You

just

have

to

grit

your

teeth

and

work

harder

to

get

good

at

it.

Once

you

do,

there’s

a

strong

chance

you

will

enjoy

it

more

than

anything

else.

和許多學(xué)生一樣，在我成長(zhǎng)過(guò)程中，別人告訴我將來(lái)去從事自己擅長(zhǎng)的事。但我并不清楚我自己最擅長(zhǎng)什么。大多數(shù)人會(huì)認(rèn)為你某樣?xùn)|西學(xué)得很好時(shí)，這種東西對(duì)你而言就很簡(jiǎn)單。但是我發(fā)現(xiàn)：僅僅因?yàn)橐婚T學(xué)科很難學(xué)，這并不意味著你在這方面不強(qiáng)。你只是需要咬緊牙關(guān)，更加努力地去學(xué)好它。一旦你這樣做了，就很有可能你會(huì)享受這門學(xué)科給你帶來(lái)的其他任何東西都無(wú)法比擬的無(wú)限樂(lè)趣。

In

eighth

grade

I

took

algebra.

On

one

test

I

got

only

36

percent

of

the

answers

correct.

I

failed

the

next

one,

too.

I

started

to

think,

Maybe

I’m

just

no

good

at

this.

I

was

lucky

enough

to

have

a

teacher

who

didn’t

take

my

bad

grades

as

a

judgment

of

my

abilities,

but

simply

as

an

indication

that

I

should

study

more.

He

pulled

me

aside

and

told

me

he

knew

I

could

do

better.

He

let

me

the

tests,

and

I

pulled

my

grade

up

to

an

A.

八年級(jí)我學(xué)代數(shù)時(shí)，一次考試我只有36%的答案正確。接下來(lái)的一次考試我又不及格。我開(kāi)始質(zhì)疑自己，或許我真的不擅長(zhǎng)代數(shù)。值得慶幸的是，我的老師并沒(méi)有用我糟糕的分?jǐn)?shù)來(lái)評(píng)判我的能力，而是將它作為我應(yīng)該多多強(qiáng)化的信號(hào)。他把我叫到一旁，告訴我他知道我能做的更好。他讓我重考，結(jié)果我將成績(jī)提升到了A。

I

studied

a

lot

in

college,

too.

I

had

moments

of

panic

while

sitting

underneath

the

buzzing

fluorescent

lights

in

the

engineering

library

on

Saturday

afternoons,

when

I

worried

that

the

estrogen

in

my

body

was

preventing

me

from

understanding

thermodynamics.

But

the

guys

in

my

classes

had

to

work

just

as

hard,

and

I

knew

that

I

couldn’t

afford

to

loseconfidence

in

myself.

I

didn’t

want

to

choose

between

my

femininity

and

a

good

career.

So

I

reminded

myself

that

those

studies,

the

ones

that

say

that

math

comes

more

naturally

to

men,

are

based

on

a

faulty

premise:

that

you

can

judge

a

person’s

abilities

separate

from

the

cultural

cues

that

she

has

received

since

she

was

an

infant.

No

man

is

an

island.

No

woman

is,

either.

在大學(xué)里我同樣學(xué)了很多東西。星期六下午坐在工程圖書館吱吱作響的熒光燈下學(xué)習(xí)時(shí)，我也有過(guò)恐懼的時(shí)候，擔(dān)心我體內(nèi)的雌激素會(huì)阻礙我理解熱力學(xué)。但是我班上的男同學(xué)們也同樣在刻苦學(xué)習(xí)，我知道我不能夠?qū)ψ约簡(jiǎn)适判?。我不想在我女性氣質(zhì)和擁有一份好工作兩者之中只取其一。因此我提醒自己那些研究，那些說(shuō)數(shù)學(xué)對(duì)男性來(lái)說(shuō)更自然的研究是建立在一個(gè)有缺陷的前提之上的：那就是認(rèn)為你可以完全不考慮一個(gè)人從她還是嬰兒時(shí)就受到的文化熏陶來(lái)判斷她的能力。男人不是孤島，女人也不是。

Why

are

we

so

quick

to

limit

ourselves?

I’m

not

denying

that

most

little

girls

love

dolls

and

most

little

boys

love

videogames,

and

it

may

be

true

that

some

people

favor

side

of

their

brain,

and

others

the

left.

But

how

relevant

is

that

to

me,

or

to

anyone,

as

an

individual

Instead

of

translating

our

differences

into

hard

and

fast

conclusions

about

the

human

brain,

why

can’t

we

focus

instead

on

how

incredibly

flexible

we

are

Instead

of

using

what

we

know

as

a

reason

why

women

can’t

learn

physics,

maybe

we

should

conside