今年10月的SAT考试可谓一波三折，先是香港考试及评核局说正常考试，然后CB更新考场变化，一些海外部分考场停考或者变更考试安排，确实有一些报考海外的学生遇到这些意外，但10月份考生主流还是在香港亚博馆。
考情回顾
香港考场，考前突发意外，在近8点的时候，香港考试及评核局又发布通知：受交通情况影响，今日（2019年10月5日）的SAT考试开考时间延迟到上午11点30分开始。
紧接着CB官网也发出了通知：
香港学生：2019年10月5日（星期六）在香港所有考试中心的SAT考试被推迟了三个小时。考试中心的门将于上午10:45开放，学生应在上午11点之前到达。
所以导致提前到的学生，无处可去，考试举办方也没有紧急应对措施，上万名考生和家长就这样在场馆里聚集着，考生的心情可想而知。
图片来自考生分享
大部分考生都能很快调整自己的状态，找个地方安静的休息，或者准备一些食物；也有一小部分考生或者家长为了发泄不满情绪四处抱怨，其实考前这种心态对考试非常不利。突发意外，谁都不情愿遇到，但既然发生了，就应该快速应对，而不是一味抱怨。
还有一些家长在骂CB，但仔细想想这次延迟事件CB也冤，他们更不想延迟，延迟对他们而言就意味着泄题风险。事实上，今天香港的所有考试中，只有SAT是延迟的，其他考试都是直接取消的。
香港考试及评测局官网截图
与海外部分考场考试直接取消或者改期相比，延迟3个小时对考生今年的整体申请不会有太大影响了，试想一下，哪怕是延期两周，就会影响到很多同学的早申，也一样没地方申诉去。
在这里SAT君还是想强调一下对于考场的选择：大考场整体比小考场安全系数高一些，如果今天的事情发生在海外一些小考场，后果可能不是延迟3小时，可能要改期了，直接后果是影响到学生的申请进程。
延迟考试目前看后面并没有什么坏的连锁反应，有家长问会不会导致取消成绩，会不会有人利用这么长的时差作弊？其实有点多虑了，正常的考生成绩不会被取消，只有成绩异常，CB才会延迟出分或者取消成绩；至于作弊，除非他们能掐会算，预测到会延迟3个小时，否则很难临时找到作弊设备，除非他们原本就是要作弊的，有没有延迟对他们来说都意义不大。但是我们相信大多数学生都是认真考试的，不要太关注阴暗面的一些信息。
每年10月SAT考试备受关注，一方面是由于当季申请者的最后一战，另一方面因为考生众多，牵动无数家长的心。香港考场因为交通便利，成为考生的首选。这次因为交通瘫痪导致考试出现意外让考生和家长焦躁，也从侧面说明一个问题，很多当季申请者把宝押到最后一场考试上了，才导致这么被动，这里再建议高一、二的考生们，尽量早做规划早出分，不要把风险都积累到最后关头。
考题回顾
说回今天的考试，今天亚太卷是一套新题，有机构说是6月份放出的试题，但市面上并未流通，严格来说还是新题。根据考生反馈，这套试题整体难度适中，阅读语法对于基础稍微薄弱的同学来说有点难度，数学比较简单。
一起来看下今天的考题回顾，考题部分由沃邦教育(ID:ionebest)整理。
阅读部分
阅读第一篇：小说
作者：Anita Desai
选自：The Artist‘s Life
概要：讲的是一个女孩对绘画的理解。主人公小女孩Polly从小被送去学画画，喜欢画紫色波点花纹，她喜欢的花纹和老师的领带不谋而合，因此老师非常理解她，但是把画拿回家给父母看却得不到认同因此非常忧郁，典型的当代女性成长代沟话题。
文章注重对主人公心理描写的考察。文章读起来略显抽象，难度中等偏上。
原文：
Of course Polly had been introduced to Art as an infant. Of course the local school provided her—indiscriminately, as it did all children—with paint and clay and crayons, and she had made, as all children make, representations of her home and family—triangular-shaped father and mother holding hands, box-shaped brother in outsized shorts standing apart—as well as of daisies in a vase, and even a lopsided teacup or two, each of them intensely satisfying for a day or two, then desperately unsatisfying thereafter.
But what Miss Abigail at the camp introduced her to was Real Art: in her whispery, bubbly, disquieting voice she had urged them to 'paint your dreams—show me what you dreamed last night'. She had spaced the words, leaving great gaps for them to fill, and then sighed a replete sigh, as one might when overcome by swirls of incense or opium, when Polly presented a particularly lurid or mysterious painting—headless, shrouded figures in shades of purple appearing on the surface of a lake with large, many-pointed stars shining down on them out of a streaky sky, or purple pigeons swooping down out of a pink sky to light upon lilac roofs (Polly was very attached to the colour purple, and perhaps it was only a coincidence but that was the colour that dominated Miss Abigail's tie-dyed shifts too). For the sake of that narrowing of green cat's eyes, that slow exhalation of breath that spoke such volumes, and simply for the sake of staying close to that enchantingly incense-scented young woman with her flowing red hair and flowing purple dresses, Polly dedicated the summer to paint, letting others canoe, shoot arrows, roast marshmallows or run around working up a sweat like the damned and the demented.
She came home reluctantly, dazed into an uncharacteristic silence, with her paintings rolled up into an impressively long roll—Miss Abigail had insisted she always use large sheets of thick paper for her art. The family had been faintly surprised by what she spread out on the dining table for them; they turned to her with quizzical looks and remarks like 'Very nice, dear,' and 'Now what is that supposed to be?' making her roll them up again in offended exasperation, and carry them up to the attic where she spread them out along with all her painting equipment. She was determined to find herself a tie-dyed skirt, wear her hair loose, not in tight painful pigtails any more, and spend the rest of the summer drawing long strokes of purple and lilac paint across sheets of paper, humming the melancholy tunes Miss Abigail had hummed at the camp. 'And then my lover,' she moaned under her breath, 'left me a-lone...'
Unfortunately it was very, very hot under the attic roof, and in that thrumming heat of late August she would find her head spinning after a while. So much so that she was compelled to stretch out on a sheet of canvas and fall into a kind of stupor, struggling to keep her eyes open. Spiders descended from the rafters and spun their wavering webs, or dangled like aerial acrobats over her head. Seeing one unroll its lifeline and drop, cautiously and investigatively, closer and closer to the nest of her hair, she swatted at it, and upset a mug of water over a painting of a volcano spewing blood-red and orange paint. The water and paint seeped through several layers of paper, staining not only one but several other paintings as well.
That was when she descended the stairs, arms crossed over her chest, chin sunk, looking down at her bare feet, oppressed by the burden of being an artist. 'What's the matter, Polly?' her mother asked, 'got a headache?' and her brother jumped out from behind a door, with a 'Yar-boo!' that made her drop her arms, jerk up her head, then stick out her tongue and scream 'You—pig!' or was it, her mother wondered, aghast, 'You— pigs?'
It was then that the maple's drooping August skirts and the rotting rubber tyre hanging from its branch became the only option for her during, the remaining days of summer. It was then that she discovered she could sail through the green leaves and the yellow air and be the artist without having to go through the sticky manoeuvres required by actual painting. Truth be told, she had no distinct memory of any of Miss Abigail's paintings, only of her loose hair, the long skirts, the whispering voice. She became convinced that art was not so much a matter of painting as of being an artist. Her eyes blurred, seeing not the dusty leaves or the scolding squirrels, the grass with its sandy or weedy patches giving it an undesirable patchwork effect, or her brother's face with its ginger freckles leering at her through the bean vines that sagged off the garage roof, but great watery sunsets, wild frenzies of blossoming plants, suns colliding with stars, wisps of carelessly cavorting hair, and 'Paint what-e-ever you drream,' she sang to herself, stubbing one toe into the dirt and making the tyre swing upwards.
Unfortunately, the old heavy circle of ridged rubber could not be made to swoop upwards. At best, it dangled in its incurably pedestrian way, refusing to. lift her into the higher realms where she wished to go. Those unpredictable roseate dreams were cruelly limited, encroached upon by the undeniable reality of the house, yard, suburb—enemies, all, of Art.
阅读第二篇：社科
作者：Colleen Haight
标题：The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee
概要：自由贸易咖啡，这种产业对于不发达的国家十分重要，有一个世界性的咖啡组织规定了一个基准价格，然而这个规定却反而导致了咖啡质量每况愈下，举了一个例子关于一个农民中了两种咖啡，在价格之上的则不在组织内售卖，而价格之下的放在组织内基准线价格售卖，导致好的越好赚差价，差的越差应付差事。
原文：
Why do we care about fairly traded coffee? One reason is the importance of coffee to the economies of the countries in which the crop is grown. Coffee is the second most valuable commodity exported from developing countries, petroleum being the first. For many of the world’s least developed countries, such as Honduras, Ethiopia, and Guatemala, coffee exports make up an enormous share of the export earnings, comprising in some cases more than 50 percent of foreign exchange earnings.3 In addition, many of the coffee growers are small and their businesses are financially marginal.
Although some of the world’s poorest countries produce coffee, the preponderance of that production is consumed by the citizens of the world’s wealthiest countries. The United States is the world’s single largest consuming country, buying more than 22 percent of world coffee imports; the combined countries of the European Union import roughly 67 percent, 4 with other countries importing the remaining 10 percent. According to the Specialty Coffee Retailer, an industry resource site, specialty coffee in 2010 accounted for $13.65 billion in sales, one-third of the nation’s $40 billion coffee industry. The Specialty Coffee Association of America reports that approximately 23 million people in the United States drink specialty or gourmet coffee daily. Fair Trade coffee, which has grown steadily from 76,059 pounds in 1998 to 109,795,363 pounds in 2009,5 constitutes only about 4 percent of that $14 billion market.
The primary way in by which FLO and Fair Trade USA attempt to alleviate poverty and jump-start economic development among coffee growers is a mechanism called a price floor, a limit on how low a price can be charged for a product. As of March 2011, FLO fixed a price floor of $1.40 per pound of green coffee beans. FLO also indexes that floor to the New York Coffee Exchange price, so that when prices rise above $1.40 per pound for commodity, or non-specialty, coffee, the Fair Trade price paid is always at least 20 cents per pound higher than the price for commodity coffee.
Commodity coffee is broken into grades, but within each grade the coffee is standardized. This means that beans from one batch are assumed to be identical to those in any other batch. It is a standardized product. Specialty coffee, on the other hand, is sold because of its distinctive flavor characteristics. Because specialty coffees are of a higher grade, they command higher prices. Fair Trade coffee can come in any quality grade, but the coffee is considered part of the specialty coffee market because of its special production requirements and pricing structure. It is these requirements and pricing structure that create a quality problem for Fair Trade coffee.
To understand how the problem arises, one must understand that the low consumer demand for Fair Trade coffee means that not all of a particular farmer’s coffee, which will be of varying quality, may be sold at the Fair Trade price. The rest must be sold on the market at whatever price the quality of the coffee will support.
A simple example illustrates this point. A farmer has two bags of coffee to sell and there is a Fair Trade buyer for only one bag. The farmer knows bag A would be worth $1.70 per pound on the open market because the quality is high and bag B would be worth only $1.20 because the quality is lower. Which should he sell as Fair Trade coffee for the guaranteed price of $1.40? If he sells bag A as Fair Trade, he earns $1.40 (the Fair Trade price) and sells bag B for $1.20 (the market price), equaling $2.60. If he sells bag B as Fair Trade coffee he earns $1.40, and sells bag A at the market price for $1.70, he earns a total of $3.10. To maximize his income, therefore, he will choose to sell his lower quality coffee as Fair Trade coffee. Also, if the farmer knows that his lower quality beans can be sold at $1.40 per pound (provided there is demand), he may decide to increase his income by reallocating his resources to boost the quality of some beans over others. For example, he might stop fertilizing one group of plants and concentrate on improving the quality of the others. Thus the chances increase that the Fair Trade coffee will be of consistently lower quality. This problem is accentuated when the price of coffee rises to 30-year highs, as it has done recently.
阅读第三篇：科学
作者：Paul B Wgnall
标题：The Worst of Times：How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
概要：文章先强调的发现一种P化石的重要性，然后一位中国教授研究表明在三叠纪生物大灭绝，物种多样性急剧减少，而另外两名研究人员则发现混合的动物群体多样性相对更高，结论表明三叠纪包含两次大灭绝和一次物种数量恢复，而且从长时间来看多样性的减少反而是物种多样性稳定的表现。
阅读第四篇：历史双篇
第一篇历史
作者：Colleen Haight
标题：The College, the Market, and the Court; Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law
第二篇历史
作者：Sarah Cooper
标题：woman suffrage -cui bono
概要：两篇文章为相反型，第一篇强调女性不只要抽象概念上的权利，真正需求是要政府给予实际的公民权利，主要的诉求就是要投票权，虽然现在有投票权，但是作者要求投票权不应基于财富水平而是教育水平。两点原因第一个是女性需要自己有能力保护自己，第二个是两性生来平等，并提议了三条法律，反暴力，反欺诈，反对过分激进的性别主义。
虽然是双篇，但是话题是女权这种老生常谈的问题了，所以考生读起来没有太大压力，观点也比较清晰。难度偏低。
原文：
第一篇：
we don't care about abstract rights: what we want is our own share of the tangible acknowledged right which human governments confer. If in England this right depends on a property qualification, then we claim that there the property qualification shall endow woman as well as man with the right of suffrage. If in America it depends upon an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then we demand that our government recognize woman as so endowed, and receive her vote.
To the reviewer we say also, If the grounds of suffrage are vague and undetermined in theory, they may remain so, so far as our interference is concerned. What we ask to share is the steady right to vote, which has been actually granted, and never disputed, since our government was founded; and sufficiently pressed, we might add, that, if there is ever any chance of limiting the right of suffrage, we shall do all we can to secure its dependence on a certain amount of education, in preference to a certain amount of wealth.
As to the art critic, we thank him for calling us the "sad sisterhood." We should be sorry to be otherwise, when pleading for women before men; sorry to find matter for jesting in those purlieus of St. Giles and Five Points and the Black Sea, beating up remorselessly against these very doors, which lie at the very heart of our effort. As to the matter of going to see the Horse Fair and the Highland Cattle, it will probably be found to be a fact, that, in every city where those great pictures have been exhibited, "women's-rights women" have been their earliest visitors; and, standing before the canvas, have thanked God, with an earnestness the art critic never dreamt of, for that silent woman's hand, that glorious woman's life. It was not necessary for him to remind us of what Solomon had said so much better three thousand years ago; namely, that "speech is silvern, and silence is golden." Nathless, silver is still current in all markets; and, God willing, we are not ashamed to use it.
We intend to claim, in words, the right of suffrage; and why?
Turning from that wretched estimate of woman, and of man's duty toward woman, which the law-books have just offered us, we claim the right of suffrage, because only through its possession can women protect themselves; only through its exercise can both sexes have equality of right and power before the law. Whenever this happened, character would get its legitimate influence; and it is just possible that men might become rational and virtuous in private, if association with women compelled them to seem so in public.
It is noticeable, that every man disclaims at his own hearth, and in the presence of women, whatever there is of disgraceful appertaining to political or other public meetings. Somebody must be responsible for these things; and yet, if we are to believe witnesses, nobody ever does them. The bare fact of association must take all the blame.
The laws already existing prove conclusively to woman herself, that she has never had a real representative. What she seeks is to utter her own convictions, so that they shall redeem and save, not merely her own sex but the race.
第二篇：
The fact that a large majority of women manifest so little interest in the question of suffrage, and are so palpably indifferent in regard to securing the privilege, is evidence of the absence of any very extended dissatisfaction with their present position. Female suffragists find their most formidable opponents among their own sex; and is not the instinct or inclination of this latter class as worthy of consideration as are the wishes and opinions of those who maintain the opposite view? Are they any less sincere?Should they be deemed illiberal, pusillanimous, apathetic, or imbecile, because they fail to discover in the ballot the Utopian glories of a redeemed womanhood? There are those who believe women to be their own severest critics, their own harshest judges. 
Feeling  thus, they have no tumultuous desire to secure the privilege of being tried by a socalled jury of their peers. They believe that, as a rule, the kindest judges of woman's strength or infirmity have been men; that in man she finds her truest and firmest champion. What women most lack, is charity and magnanimity to one another. Woman's weakness lies in her aptitude to forgive in the wrong place. She too often passes with a look of reproachful scorn the wretched victim of the seducer's wiles, while, perchance, at her very side primly walks the villainous coxcomb, who, with perjured arts, has effected this hopeless ruin. He finds sweet solace for his crime in the bewitching smiles and fascinations of others equally fair and trustful, while she, the blighted one, with heavy heart and poisoned life, moves on, “salvationless, almost." What has earth left for her?
There is nothing but grief and gall in her heart.
"What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom - is to die."
Will the ballot in woman's hand change all this? If so, God speed it. If men and women could only be made virtuous by Act of Congress, the prospect might be more re-assuring. The efforts hither to made to legislate morality have not been very hopeful in their results. Repression and extirpation are as dissimilar in meaning as in effect. The utter inefficiency of the former has been clearly demonstrated by the workings of the liquor laws: to evade which, men even resorted to the manufacture of small canteens in the form of Bibles, in which liquors of all kinds were surreptitiously introduced and vended-by no means the first instance in which men have been known "to steal the livery of heaven to serve the devil in; " nor do women lack the wit or the audacity to do likewise, if principle be in subjection to passion. Would female legislation be likely to be more effective in this direction?
Is it not a deplorable fact that the use of stimulants is even now sadly frequent among women in all classes of society?
Would not multiplied temptations inevitably increase the direful practice? Has it not come to be a dangerous experiment to bestow alms upon daily applicants for charity, lest the very aid extended prove only a means for the larger indulgence of a slavish appetite? It does not promote charitable growth to meet the recipient of one's bounty in a maudlin state of intoxication shortly after dispensing the same. Would the ballot in
the hand of such women be calculated to further the reforms so much desired and needed? Yet, this is the class most likely to avail themselves of the prerogative, and who will sell their votes to the highest bidder as nimbly as do their distinguished consorts today.
阅读第五篇：科学
作者：Seth S Horowitz
标题：The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind
概要：以前科学界一直认为蝌蚪听力差，但是实验都是在水里进行的，水对蝌蚪产生了干扰。作者认为应该在和蝌蚪生活环境相近的自然环境里进行试验。作者自己进行了试验，发现其实蝌蚪的听力非常好。此外他还发现，他的数据里有一些蝌蚪没有听力。这是因为在他们的前腿长出来之前有一段耳聋期。
综合来看阅读难度适中，小说和历史的难度这次有所放低，但科学难度提升。
语法部分
语法部分整体难度一般，文章容易理解，考察知识点也比较常见。但难度低的题目curve也会相应收紧，所以考生需要认真对待，不能掉以轻心。
第一篇：悠悠球
内容：一个叫Pedro Flore的美国人在公园玩悠悠球，因为他的悠悠球样式和普通的都不一样，引来了很多人围观。看着围观的人群，flore发现了商机。他注册了自己的商标，量产悠悠球，使悠悠球风靡一时。在悠悠球事业做得正好的时候，flore让一个叫duncan的人接手了他的公司，自己则到世界各地宣传悠悠球。虽然现在广为人知的是duncan悠悠球，其实最早把悠悠球事业发扬光大的还是flore。
第二篇：ecotourism
两个例子，第一个叫ties的在线学习程序，可以给人建议怎么保护环境；第二个阿拉斯加的生态旅游业 阿拉斯加现在虽然还有许多旅游项目，但是只允许有经验导游带领的小团体，而且在阿拉斯加给游客住的营地也使用了节电技术。
第三篇：一种叫opah的深海恒温鱼类
内容：自然界中动物分两种: endotherm恒温动物&exotherm变温动物。endotherm恒温动物主要是哺乳动物和鸟类，通过自己调节身体温度来适应环境温度变化；ectotherm变温动物主要为鱼类， 不能调节全身温度，仅有部分鱼类可以通过调节局部身体温度来适应环境。但opah这种鱼类是个例外，因为它们是endotherm恒温动物，通过两种方式调节体温的：
1、依靠快速扇动side fin侧鳍来游动身体，在这个过程中high heat高热产生，流经incoming blood；
2、gills鳃的部位有一套进incoming/出outgoing血管紧紧靠在一起，形成counter-current heat exchange逆流热交换系统，由煽动fin产生的warm blood在进入心脏的过程中，可以近距离加热outgoing blood（由于这部分血管在gill里刚与深海冷水近距离接触过，所以是冷的），这样，outgoing blood携带温热的血液流经全身，加热所有部位。
而其他有相似血管设置的鱼类，如albacore tuna，只有身体的局部才有这样的血液交换系统，如眼睛eyes、肝脏liver，游泳肌swimming muscle，所以只能达到局部恒温regional endothermy效果。此外， tuna平时有52.8%时间生活在浅水区域，主要靠太阳光维持体温，然而opah只有不到10%的时间生活在浅水，大部分时间都在深水捕猎，与其他生活在深水的慢悠悠的鱼类不同，opah 行动非常快速，具有恒温捕食者的各种特点。
第四篇：speed listening
现在可以加速播放音频的软件很流行，因为人们的生活节奏加快了，所以想要快速读完某些书。但其实speed listening对于听故事来说是非常不利的。
首先，因为故事的讲述narrative有自己的pace，讲故事者甚至会通过一些技巧，比如在讲述过程中停顿，来渲染气氛，让读者感同身受，但是如果加速听故事，就会让故事失去pace，失去必要的、有意义的silence。
其次，加速以后的故事需要听故事者的大脑快速运转，短时间内摄入大量信息，这相当于把人的大脑当作一台电脑，为了追求尽可能快的信息下载速度，而牺牲其他的方面，更不利于听者抓住故事的主线，分清主要情节和次要信息。
数学部分
数学部分普遍反应比较简单的，也都是常规知识点。代数部分主要考察解方程，一次函数斜率，二次函数考察二次项系数的意义（开口大小），指数函数考察识别图表中的数字变化是linear还是exponential。几何部分主要考察了圆的方程（根据方程求radius ）。统计部分比较简单，考察ratio，probablity，sample selection（样本有误差，问：加上误差值后，mean，median，range是如何变化的，本次未涉及到boxplot。
写作部分
Do Women Really Want Equality?
正文如下：
1. The fall season in gender-gap news has started early and with a bang. A study released yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that male doctors earn over 25% more than female doctors. Why am I not surprised? There is a constant stream of stories showing gender disparities like this: that Obama gave only 35% of Cabinet-level posts to women, that men still write 87% of Wikipedia entries, that they are approximately 80% of local news-television and radio managers, and over 75% of philosophers.
2. After decades of antidiscrimination laws, diversity initiatives and feminist advocacy, such data leads to an uncomfortable question: Do women actually want equality? The answer seems transparently, blindingly, obvious. Do women want to breathe fresh air? Do they want to avoid rattlesnakes and fatal heart attacks?
3. But from another perspective, the answer is anything but clear. In fact, there’s good reason to think that women don’t want the sort of equality envisioned by government bureaucrats, academics and many feminist advocates, one imagined strictly by the numbers with the goal of a 50-50 breakdown of men and women in C-suites, law-school dean offices, editorial boards and computer-science departments; equal earnings, equal work hours, equal assets, equal time changing diapers and doing the laundry. “A truly equal world,” Sheryl Sandberg wrote in Lean In, which is still on the best-seller lists months after its spring publication, “would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.” It’s a vision of progress that can only be calculated through the spreadsheets of labor economists, demographers and activist groups.
4. It would be silly to deny that equality-by-the-numbers researchers can deliver figures that could alarm even an Ann Romney. There’s the puny 4.2% of female Fortune 500 CEOs, the mere 23.7% of female state legislators, the paltry 19% of women in Congress. But while “numbers don’t lie,” they can create mirages that convince us we see something we don’t. Take, for example, the JAMA study about the pay gap between male and female doctors. The study seems to capture yet another example of discrimination against women. But because it fails to consider differences in medical specialty or type of workplace, that appearance may well be an illusion. Surgeons and cardiologists, who have long been in the ranks of the top-earning specialties, remain predominantly male. Meanwhile, as women flooded the profession, they disproportionately chose to become psychiatrists and pediatricians, specialties that have always been among the least lucrative.
5. There are reasons for this particular wage gap that are gender-blind. Surgeons need more years of training, perform riskier work (at least that’s how malpractice insurers see it) and put in more unpredictable hours. Unsurprisingly, according to surveys, women who become doctors approach their work differently than men. They spend more time with each patient; when choosing jobs, they are far more likely to cite time for family and flexible hours as “very important” and to prefer limited management responsibilities. Male doctors, on the other hand, are more likely to think about career advancement and income potential.
6. This hints at the problem with the equality-by-the-numbers approach: it presumes women want absolute parity in all things measurable, and that the average woman wants to work as many hours as the average man, that they want to be CEOs, heads of state, surgeons and Cabinet heads just as much as men do. But a consistent majority of women, including those working full time, say they would prefer to work part time or not at all; among men, the number is 19%. And they’re not just talking; in actual practice, 27% of working women are on the job only part time, compared with 11% of men.
7. Now, a lot of people might say that American women are stymied from pursuing their ambitions because of our miserly maternity leave, day care and workplace-flexibility policies. But even women in the world’s most family-friendly countries show little interest in the equality-by-the-numbers ideal. In Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland, according to the OECD, women still work fewer hours and earn less money than men; they also remain a rare sight in executive offices, computer-science classrooms and, though the OECD doesn’t say it I’m willing to bet, philosophy conferences. Sweden, the gold standard of gender equality in many minds, has one of the highest percentages of women working part time anywhere in the world. Equality-by-numbers advocates should be thinking about women’s progress in terms of what women show that they want, not what the spreadsheets say they should want.
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