и как же сия манипуляция соотносится с задачей "перевести"??

arzy, приведите пошире контекст, пожалуйста.

П.С. На следующих выборах в США точно победит Хиллари Клинтон. Вот увидите.

It's taking a long time, but things are getting better
"Women are not at the top anywhere," says Herminia Ibarra, a professor at the INSEAD business school near Paris. "Many get on the high-potential list and then languish there for ever." That is broadly true not only in business but also in politics, academia, law, medicine, the arts and almost any other field you care to mention.
In parliaments across the world women on average hold just 20% of the seats, though again the Nordics do much better. In Finland-one of the first countries to give them the vote, in 1906-women have at various times held more than half the ministerial jobs. The prime minister one back was a woman and so is the current president, Tarja Halonen, the first female to hold the post. A lawyer, doughty fighter for women's rights and single mother, she is nearing the end of her second and final term of office but would like to see another woman president soon: "Once is not enough." Elsewhere too female political leaders are becoming less unusual-think of Germany's Angela Merkel, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, Australia's Julia Gillard or Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-but still far from common.
The most egregious gap between men and women is still in the world of work. The World Economic Forum, a Geneva-based think-tank, earlier this month published its latest annual "Global Gender Gap Report", comparing progress in 135 countries towards sex equality in four broad areas. In heahh and education, says Saadia Zahidi, head of the WEF'S Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme, most countries have largely closed the gap in recent years. In the third, politics, the gap is still wide but progress has been relatively rapid. The fourth, economic opportunity, is proving dishearteningly slow to shift, not just in developing countries but in many rich ones too. Ms Zahidi argues that "smaller gaps in economic opportunity are directly correlated with greater competitiveness, so increased equality helps to promote economic growth."
On the face of it women have done all they possibly could to prepare themselves. Noting that their menfolk got better jobs if they were more highly educated, they piled into the colleges. They went out to look for work in such numbers that in many countries now almost as many women as men hold down jobs. They poured into business and the professions, and a lot more of them these days make it to middle-ranking jobs. But there the vast majority of them stop.
The reasons are complex, but a few stick out. First, work in most organisations is structured in ways that were established many decades ago, when married men were the breadwinners and most married women stayed at home. Yet even though the great majority of families no longer fit that pattern, most workplaces have failed to take the change on board. They think they are being egalitarian by treating women exactly the same as men, but women's circumstances are often different. "We shouldn't be fixing the women but the system," says Alison Maitland, a senior fellow with The Conference Board, a think-tank, and joint author with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox of "Why Women Mean Business", a book about women in leadership roles. A

lot of men, as it happens, would also like to see work organised more flexibly to fit their lives better.
Second, though biology need not be destiny, it would be silly to pretend that having babies has no effect on women's careers. Although women now have children later and in smaller numbers, they often start thinking about having a family just at the time when career-oriented people are scrambling madly to get to the top of their particular tree. Most workplaces set critical goals for aspiring leaders (such as making partner or joining the board) at specific ages. Some women join the scramble and forget about having children, but if they take time out to start a family they find it very hard to catch up afterwards.
Third, women can be their own worst enemies. They tend to be less self-confident than men and do not put their hands up, so they do not get the plum assignments or promotions or pay rises. Iris Bohnet, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, says that women are less likely than men to negotiate for themselves (although they do very well when negotiating for others), and less willing volunteer an opinion when they are not sure. They can also be too honest. When a team led by Robin Ely, a professor at the Harvard Business School, was asked to advise a consultancy on the reasons for high turnover among its women, it found that the firm's projects were often badly managed, making for long hours. The men, it discovered, were not happy either, but they quietly rearranged things to make life easier for themselves. The women went part-time or quit.
Fourth, discrimination continues in subtle ways. Business schools that follow their alumni's careers find that men are promoted on their potential but women are promoted on their performance, so they advance more slowly. The women adjust to this, which slows their progress even more, and so the discrimination goes on without either side necessarily being aware of it.
Underusing women across the spectrum of human activity is obviously wasteful. Their cognitive endowment is the same as men's, but because they have different interests and styles, they make for more diverse and probably more innovative workplaces. And since most rich countries' working populations are ageing, women's talents will be needed even more in the future. So what is to be done?
Legislation makes a difference. Over the past few decades most rich countries, and many poorer ones too, have passed laws to ensure equal opportunities and equal pay for women. They do not always work as intended, but they make overt and gross discrimination less likely. The pay gap between men and women, for instance, has significantly narrowed in most countries in the past 30-40 years, even though progress has recently become more sporadic.
Governments can also help in a variety of other ways: by ensuring that tax rules do not discriminate against dual-earner families; by legislating for reasonable (but not excessively long) maternity and paternity leave; and, in the longer term, by pushing for school hours that allow both parents to have paid jobs. Given that education for older children is seen as a public good, there is an argument for also subsidising child care for the very young, or at least making it tax-deductible.

Благодарю всех за отклики. Пока остановился на варианте "Женщины нигде не занимают первые места", я же перевёл как "Женщины нигде не на высоте" ))

>"в любой профессиональной области женщина всегда уступает мужчине"

Это кто Вам такое сказал? Женоненавистник arzy?