做一名大佬的女人,究竟是一種怎樣的體驗?一般人是否能承受?
一名對此非常有經驗的女士,也就是比爾⋅蓋茨的妻子,罕見地說出與丈夫的私生活...
說到世界頂級富豪,很多人腦子裡第一個想到的就是微軟公司的創始人比爾⋅蓋茨(Bill Gates)。
退休多年的他,2018年和2019年依舊位居《福布斯》全球富豪榜的第二位; 個人财富淨值達到1015億美元。
Via Forbes
那做比爾⋅蓋茨的妻子,是一種什麼樣的體驗?不差錢的婚姻問題就會減少,更加幸福和甜蜜?
他的妻子梅琳達⋅蓋茨(Melinda Gates)最近又出了一本自傳:《提升的時刻:賦權婦女如何改變世界》(
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World)。
這本書首次讓公衆了解到她與蓋茨婚姻的一些細節。
Via Ins
1964年出生的梅琳達畢業于美國杜克大學計算機系。她曾是微軟公司的一名員工。
她與比爾⋅蓋茨相識時,蓋茨已是科技界富豪;兩人的經濟水平充滿懸殊。1994年1月他們婚禮的那一天,客人中就有6位億萬美元富豪。
梅琳達要如何跟一位全球頂級富豪經營一個家庭?
比爾⋅蓋茨是否會幫她一起做家務帶孩子?她要如何在富豪丈夫身邊保持自我和自我實現?
Via Ins
梅琳達這本自傳中有一章叫“沉默的不平等”,講的是全球許多女性默默承受一些沒有報酬的工作,比如做家務帶孩子等。
她指出,全球女性平均比男性多做7年的“無償勞動”。
她提到,這種不平等在她的婚姻中也曾出現,但她跟丈夫做了很多努力,去消除這種不平等”。
“On average, women around the world spend more than twice as many hours as men on unpaid work,” writes Gates. “But the range of the disparity is wide.” In poorer countries, women tend to spend even more time on unpaid work,deepening the divide between their opportunities outside of the home and those of the men around them.
“世界上的女人們花在無償勞動上的時間平均約超過男人的兩倍,且男女的差距很大,”梅琳達寫道。在貧窮些的國家,女人往往會花更多的時間在無償勞動上,這讓女性相比男性,更難在家庭之外獲得機會。
In one telling (and hilarious) anecdote, Gates writes about how, when her daughter Jenn was in kindergarten, she had to drive back and forth to her school twice a day, a forty-minute commute each way.
在一篇(好笑的)轶事中,梅琳達寫到關于當她的女兒Jenn在幼兒園時,她不得不每天兩次來回幼兒園,每趟單程需要40分鐘。
She told her husband about her frustration with spending so much time in the car every day, and he offered to take on some of the drop-offs.About three weeks in, she started noticing more dads than usual dropping their kids off in her daughter’s class. Gates went up to another mom and asked what was going on. The other mom replied: “When we saw Bill driving, we went home and said to our husbands, ‘Bill Gates is driving his child to school; you can too.'”
她對比爾說,每天要花這麼多時間在車上讓她感到非常沮喪。而比爾提出願意承擔一些接送。過了大約三周,她開始發現女兒班中有比以往更多的父親來接送孩子。梅琳達走向另一位母親并詢問發生了什麼事。另一位母親回答:“當我們看到比爾開車,我們回家告訴了我們的丈夫,‘比爾⋅蓋茨在送他的孩子去學校,你也可以。’”
Via fortune.com
Via Ins
梅琳達在婚姻中遇到的另一個問題,是關于懷孕。什麼時候要小孩,要幾個小孩,都曾讓她思考...
他們結婚兩年後,梅琳達懷上了第一個孩子。但一開始,她并不太敢告訴丈夫懷孕的消息。
In 1995, after Bill and I had been married nearly two years and were about to leave on a trip to China, I discovered I was pregnant.
1995年,我跟比爾結婚将近2年了。當時我們準備出發去中國旅遊,但我突然發現自己懷孕了。
This China trip was a huge deal for us. Bill rarely took time off from Microsoft, and we were going with other couples as well.
這場中國之行對我們來說很重要。比爾幾乎沒有請過假,而陪同我們一起去的還有其他幾對夫妻。
I didn’t want to mess up the trip, so I considered not telling Bill I was pregnant until we came back. For a day and a half, I thought, I’ll just save the news. Then I realised: ‘No, I’ve got to tell him because what if something goes wrong? And, more basically, I’ve got to tell him because it’s his baby, too.’
我并不想因懷孕的事情掃了大家的興。所以我決定旅遊回來再告訴比爾我懷孕的消息。我大約守着這個秘密守了一天半,然後我意識到:“我不能不說。要是發生什麼意外情況的話,比爾不知道怎麼辦?再說,他是孩子的爸爸,有權利知道。”
Via dailymail.co.uk
懷孕之後,梅琳達就考慮是否要繼續去上班。她當時的價值觀認為女人懷孕後做全職主婦很正常。
Via Ins
但後來,她意識到,她隻是很幸運沒有經濟壓力。但對很多女性來說,并沒有這麼好運。
懷孕會影響女性的事業,影響女性的賺錢機會...因此女性應有避孕的意識。
Frankly, I think it’s great if women want to stay at home. But it should be a choice — not something we do because we think we have no choice. I don’t regret my decision. I’d make it again. At the time, though, I just assumed that’s what women do.
坦白說,如果女性懷孕後想做全職太太,我認為沒什麼不好。但做全職太太必須是我們自願的決定,而不是别無選擇下的妥協。我不後悔孩子剛出生那幾年沒去工作。我現在還會這麼做。但在當時,我以為女性是注定了要做全職太太的。
Poverty goes hand-in-hand with powerless women. If you search for poverty, you will find women without power. If you explore prosperity, you will find women who have power and use it.
無助且沒有能力的女人,總是容易陷入貧困。如果你去了解下貧困人口,你會發現很多是沒有能力的女人。如果你去看看哪些人群是富裕群體,你會發現一群掌握能力并知道如何使用這些能力的女人。
Quite simply, contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created.
簡單來說,避孕措施這種偉大的發明,拯救了生命,有助于消除貧困,并賦予女性權利。
I had an opportunity to have two careers and the family of my dreams because we were in the fortunate position of not needing my income. There was also another reason whose full significance wouldn’t become clear to me for years: I had the benefit of a small pill that allowed me to time and space my pregnancies.
我能夠同時擁有兩份事業,并經營自己理想中的家庭,一方面是由于良好的經濟條件(不需要我養家),但另一個重要的原因就是,我能夠通過一個小藥片,控制懷孕的時間和不同懷孕之間的間隔。避孕藥的重要性,我很多年後才意識到。
It’s no accident that I didn’t get pregnant until I had worked nearly a decade at Microsoft and Bill and I were ready to have children. It’s no accident Rory was born three years after Jenn, and our daughter, Phoebe, three years after Rory.
我在微軟公司工作近10年後,我跟丈夫都準備好了,我才懷孕,這并不是意外。在大女Jenn出生三年後我才生下兒子Rory, 也不是意外。我生下Rory三年後,才生下Phoebe, 也是靠避孕措施。
Via dailymail.co.uk
除了避孕,梅琳達還分享了婚後住在丈夫買的豪宅中,内心的不安...
Via Ins;蓋茨夫婦的小女兒(左);比爾⋅蓋茨(左二);蓋茨夫婦的大女兒(中)梅琳達⋅蓋茨;蓋茨夫婦的兒子(右)
I was no longer the computer science business executive. I was a mom with a small child and a husband who was busy and travelling a lot, and we were moving into agigantic house, and I was wondering what people would think of me, because that house was not me.That’s where I was when I began the long climb toward an equal partnership.
(結婚後),我不再是一名計算機業務主管。我是一個年幼的孩子的母親,一個繁忙且經常出差的男人的妻子。我們搬進了一座巨大的豪宅。但我擔心别人會怎麼看我,因為這個豪宅并不是我的。當時我的處境讓我想要努力追趕上丈夫,讓我們的關系保持平等。
We’ve come a long way in the 20 or so years since then. Bill has said often in interviews that he’s always had a partner in everything he’s ever done.
從那時起,我們的婚姻又維持了20年。比爾經常在訪談中說,他做任何事情時都有另一伴的支持。
That’s true, but he hasn’t always had an equal partner.He’s had to learn how to be an equal, and I’ve had to learn how to step up and be an equal.
這是真的,但他并不是一直有個平等的伴侶。他曾學習如何在婚姻中與妻子保持平等,而我也曾努力提升自己,讓自己處于跟他平等的位置。
Via dailymail.co.uk
對于梅琳達第一次公開分享她婚姻中比較私密的細節,網友們也是褒貶不一。
“我覺得擁有如此巨大的财富,會疏遠你和朋友們,因此你才感覺孤獨。有錢到這份上,你跟多數人已經沒什麼共同點。這麼有錢也是有悲哀的地方。但至少,你們住在1億美元的豪宅裡,知足吧。”
“聽起來,蓋茨一家挺正常的挺好的。祝他們幸福。”
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