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Late
marriage, low birthrate, and more elderly to care for( China Post)
Taiwanese women are known for delaying
marriage or seemingly choosing to stay single.The largely single status of
Taiwan's most popular female entertainers is also worth noting; if their chosen
predicament is not a direct reflection of society, then it certainly serves as
either affirmation or a consolation for the unhitched woman. Lin Chi-ling, top
supermodel and considered one of the most beautiful women in Taiwan, turns 37
this year without an engagement announcement in sight. Pop Princess Jolin Tsai,
despite her youthful appearance, is also pushing 30 and single. The same status
goes for famed artists like A-mei (38), Vivian Hsu (36), Christina Fan (35),
Elva Hsiao (31) and many others.
Career
first, children later: Taiwan women put their eggs on ice
(Reuters) - Caught between traditional
expectations and career pressures, working women in Taiwan are increasingly
opting to freeze their eggs at fertility clinics as they postpone marriage and
motherhood.
A slowdown in the economy has made job
security an even more pressing priority. That has been a factor in pushing the
East Asian island's average marriage age to 30 these days, from 24 in the
1980s, and in driving the interest in egg freezing.
The technology has matured and the embryo
now has a high survival rate with egg freezing, Lai said. The service costs
around 80,000 Taiwan dollars ($2,680) and the whole process of retrieving the
egg takes about 20 minutes.
"Married women are like candles
burning at both ends," she said. "We say that women work two jobs.
They make money with a daytime job but, when they go back home, they take care
of their children and parents-in-law. This pressure often makes women hesitate
when making the decision about marriage."
Questions:
Why people get married later? And the reasons
men/women don't want to get married?
What do you think about “low birthrate, and
more elderly to care issues in Taiwan”?
What do you think about “Taiwan women put
their eggs on ice”?
Do low birth rates threaten the economy?
What are the advantages and disadvantages
of being single?
What are the advantages and disadvantages
of marriage?
How common is divorce and what are the
reasons?
Google不愛高材生
【王家俊、蘇聖怡╱台北報導】新一代女性晚婚問題愈來愈嚴重！內政部7月公布最新的人口政策白皮書，其中適婚、適育年齡女性，特別是屬於輕熟齡的30到34歲婦女，有近5成、約50萬人沒有結婚，20到29歲各年齡層女性走入婚姻的狀況，相較十幾二十年前有7、8成婦女結婚生子，均呈陡降趨勢。行政院長江宜樺認為婦女晚婚導致少子化，「形同國安危機。」學者也認為，「這和高等教育急速擴張，人生階段無法相容絕對有關。」
蘇怡寧說，在他接觸的個案中，很多人都是因為年輕忙著拼經濟、衝刺事業，才會晚結婚，自然就晚生育，在社會壓力、經濟壓力下，根本不敢太早生小孩，但等到經濟能力許可時，卻又已過了懷孕的黃金期，「想生時已經太晚了！」
Google
doesn’t care about hiring top college graduates (paper.udn)
Great scores and degrees are almost equal
to success and ability, but Google, as has been said to be “the company people
aspire to” does not seem to think in that way.
In an interview earlier this year, Laszlo
Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google, said that
“Successful, bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don’t learn
how to learn from that failure.” To Google, learning ability is way more
important than learning achievements. Laszlo Bock said that “For every job,
though, the No. 1 thing we look for is general a) cognitive ability, and it’s
not IQ. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process 1) on the fly and to
pull together b) disparate bits of information.”
Top degrees cannot ensure that holiday have
the “smartest” performances in the office. Studies have shown that top college
graduates tend to have more active left brain, which controls logic and
knowledgeacquisition. However, the connection between top degrees and active
right brain, which controls creativity and imagination, is not as clear. Good
students are good at controlling, reasoning and planning, which enable them to
come top at tests and in various competitions. However, being focused on “the
established achievement” too much could cause a lack of personality and
creativity. This situation happens more in Asian society.
Bock added in another interview that his
belief is not that one shouldn’t go to college. Most people do not put enough
thought into why they’re going and what they want to achieve. They go to
college because it seems to be the right thing to do. “The first and most
important thing is to be explicit and c) willful in making the decisions about
what you want to get out of this investment in your education.”
In every 10-personteam in Google, there are
1 or 2 people without degrees. Those who are not trapped by traditional
education or who “work it out without degrees” sometimes have more outstanding
personalities. We can think ofit this way: If a person is not 2) confined to
scores, maybe a higher learning ability can be trained.
Questions:
Why Google doesn’t care about hiring top
college graduates?
Reasons why Google is the best company to
work for?
Does a college education really guarantee a
better job?
Is it IQ really important?
What we can learn from failure?
Is college degree worth it?
Reasons why you shouldn't go to college/
should go to college?
In your opinion, how to find and hire great
employees?
50萬輕熟女無偶 少子化國安危機
(蘋果調查)
【王家俊、蘇聖怡╱台北報導】新一代女性晚婚問題愈來愈嚴重！內政部7月公布最新的人口政策白皮書，其中適婚、適育年齡女性，特別是屬於輕熟齡的30到34歲婦女，有近5成、約50萬人沒有結婚，20到29歲各年齡層女性走入婚姻的狀況，相較十幾二十年前有7、8成婦女結婚生子，均呈陡降趨勢。行政院長江宜樺認為婦女晚婚導致少子化，「形同國安危機。」學者也認為，「這和高等教育急速擴張，人生階段無法相容絕對有關。」
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最近超夯的國片《總舖師》中，林美秀飾演的總舖師老婆，老公去世後改賣小吃，為吸引人潮在廟口又唱又跳《今罵沒ㄤ》（台語：現在沒老公），非常逗趣，網路上已有百萬人次點閱。事實上，根據人口政策白皮書，去年30到34歲熟齡女性共102萬餘人，有結婚的比率53.2％，近半的人單身，對照10年前該年齡層近7成結婚、20年前8成結婚，下降的趨勢非常明顯。而25到29歲女性也從20年前6成3結婚、10年前4成結婚，到去年只剩2成5。
扶養比高不利經濟
內政部官員解釋，國人普遍認同婚姻內生育的正當性，生命歷程多安排先結婚、再生育，因此，結婚率及有偶人口結構變化，對生育率影響重大；年輕人口有偶率的提高，有助於提升生育，而婦女生育年齡則象徵生育能力，也影響生育量。
行政院長江宜樺月前親自主持新成立的「人口政策會報」，各部會匯報發現，國內15到64歲工作人口在今年度達到最高峰，此外，「扶老比」（65歲以上老人除以工作人口）急速上升，「扶幼比」（14歲以下幼年人口除以工作人口）急速下降，兩者呈黃金交叉。官員表示，人口結構失衡的衝擊有二，扶幼比加扶老比的「扶養比」，數值會愈來愈高，代表社會負擔愈重；隨著少子化與平均餘命提高，老人愈養愈多，補充工作人力的幼年人口愈來愈少，不利經濟發展。
官員透露，江揆在行政院人口政策會報中裁示，內政部、衛生福利部要鼓勵生育、改善托育環境，務必達成每年「出生20萬人口的保衛戰」。
學歷愈高延後婚育
人口政策專家也是前政務委員、台大教授薛承泰強調，「近20年遲婚現象，與高等教育急速擴張，人生階段無法相容絕對有關。」他說，國人把人生分成求學、就業、結婚、生育等階段，「每個階段都沒有辦法妥協，很少人會在求學階段生育。」
薛承泰表示，從歐美大學有眷宿舍達兩成多來看，國內似乎無任何一所大學有此需求，儘管學校與教育部都沒有禁止婚育，但國人不認同大學是適婚、適育階段。而且學歷愈高，愈會規劃未來，學業完成時間拉長，婚育會不斷延後。
婚姻不再有吸引力
薛承泰也解釋，過去「先成家、後立業」，結了婚，兩人一起打拼，現在是「立了業、未必能夠成家。」而女性在教育程度、就業率提高，工作能力不亞於男性，傳統找長期飯票的想法不見了，婚姻不具吸引力，「女生根本不急著結婚！」
開業婦產科醫師蘇怡寧表示，年齡不是影響女性受孕品質的主因，但醫學臨床統計上來說，女性年齡愈高，卵巢功能較差，受孕機率下降，懷孕風險也就愈高。
蘇怡寧說，正常來看，母體懷孕的黃金期為20歲到30歲間，但隨著社會變遷，確實有愈來愈晚生育的狀況。
健全托嬰照護政策
蘇怡寧說，在他接觸的個案中，很多人都是因為年輕忙著拼經濟、衝刺事業，才會晚結婚，自然就晚生育，在社會壓力、經濟壓力下，根本不敢太早生小孩，但等到經濟能力許可時，卻又已過了懷孕的黃金期，「想生時已經太晚了！」
要改善不婚不孕少子情況，政府當務之急是做好托嬰政策，以及健全的社會照護系統，才能讓民眾敢婚敢生。
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Janet 謝怡芬 33歲
【輕熟女看婚姻】
沒保障 工作卡好
沒有男友，現在事業正起步，不急著結婚，父母也不催婚，婚姻不過是一張紙，不能保障什麼，不如把重心放在工作比較實在，不擔心未來無法生子，領養也可以。
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蕭亞軒 34歲
不擔心 高齡生育
不是不結婚，只是還沒想到結婚這一個課題。不會擔心未來高齡生育的問題，因為現在科技很進步。
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李紹瑄 30歲 室內設計師
男想娶 年輕女生
現在女性意識抬頭，也能從工作得到成就感，不會把婚姻看得很重。而且房價高，男生經濟壓力比以前大很多，等能力夠了，比較想娶20幾歲的女生，30幾歲女人就更不容易結婚了。
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白歆惠 31歲
有考慮 冷凍卵子
目前以工作為重，不急著和男友步入禮堂，曾經飾演不孕症婦女，了解求子艱辛，確有考慮要冷凍卵子，以免錯過卵子健康期。
Google不愛高材生
成績優異與高學歷等同於象徵成功與能力，但這間讓人鑽破頭嚮往進入的公司Google似乎不這麼認為。
Google人力資源部高級副總裁Laszlo Bock在上半年的訪談中表示，高材生在人生競賽中無往不利，往往導致他們無法從失敗中學習。他們認為，「學力」比所謂的「學歷」重要的多。Laszlo Bock說：「無論是什麼職位，我們都優先考量認知能力，不是智商，而是學習力-能快速處理和整合零散的資訊。」
高材生不見得是辦公室中最「聰明」的人。研究顯示，高學歷畢業生擅長活躍於主導邏輯和獲取知識的左腦。然而, 優異的成績和主宰創意及思維的右腦之前沒有顯著的關聯。高材生多半擅長掌控、推理以及策略發展，他們往往在考試以及各種競賽型活動上表現優異。但過度注重成績及所謂的「既定成就」，反而造成性格及創造能力上的缺失。亞洲社會中，這樣的情形尤其嚴重。
Bock補充，他並不認為大學教育沒價值。而是大多數人沒想清楚為什麼要上大學，和想得到什麼。僅因為似乎是正確的事而去上大學。「最重要的是明確知道自己能從教育這項投資中獲得什麼。」
在Google的每個工作小組中，每10人就有1至2人不具有大學學歷。那些不被正統教育框限亦或「不靠學歷拼出一番成就」的人，常具有更突出的人格特質。在東方社會極力追逐學位的同時，不妨想想，人若不被成績分數所框限，或許能夠培養出了更高的學習力。
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