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<strong>Chinese Title: 女警察工作与生活平衡问题探讨</strong>

<img src="http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/20121021-INLINE.jpg" alt="Learn Chinese Characters - Academic Research Papers in Mandarin Simplified Chinese" title="Learn to Read Chinese - Gender Research and Advanced Academic Papers in Chinese" width="100" height="100" class="imgborder" />Gonna lay it on a bit thick today with something nice and serious. This is an abstract of an academic paper from the Gender Studies Network authored by Zhou Ying. <!--more-->

Because this is an advanced academic abstract, you can really see how, in the upper levels of written Chinese, a ton of words that we find essential in English can be dropped from a sentence while still preserving the essence of the meaning. We tend to extend sentences with explanation, but here, I feel, is a fabulous example of how efficient Chinese can be. Because so many words have been dropped, I've added a whole lot of bracketed explanation and English fill-in words in the translation to better illuminate the implied meaning.

I'm not quite sure I know what a "proper role in domestic life is", I'm fairly certain that not all policewomen feel intensely conflicted, and I'm not sure I really like the implications there, but hey. It's not my paper. 

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禁区 - [pinyin]jin4 qu1[/pinyin] - Forbidden region
范围 - [pinyin]fan4 wei2[/pinyin] - Range, scope
治安 - [pinyin]zhi4 an1[/pinyin] - Law and order
打击 - [pinyin]da3 ji1[/pinyin] - Crack down on
面临 - [pinyin]mian4 lin2[/pinyin] - Be faced with
工作与生活平衡 - [pinyin]gong1 zuo4 yu2 sheng1 huo2 ping2 heng2[/pinyin] - Work-life balance
比例 - [pinyin]bi3 li4[/pinyin] - Proportion
岗位 - [pinyin]gang3 wei4[/pinyin] - A job
限 - [pinyin]xian4[/pinyin] - Limit
遭受 - [pinyin]zao1 shou4[/pinyin] - To suffer
威胁 - [pinyin]wei1 xie2[/pinyin] - To threaten
扮演 - [pinyin]ban4 yan3[/pinyin] - To play a role
冲突 - [pinyin]chong1 tu1[/pinyin] - Conflict
政策 - [pinyin]zheng4 ce4[/pinyin] - Policy
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警察职业曾是女性的“<strong>禁区</strong>”。随着社会的发展, 目前女警数量不断扩大, 警务工作<strong>范围</strong>不断扩展, 他们已成为维护社会<strong>治安</strong>、<strong>打击</strong>犯罪的特殊力量。女警发展<strong>面临</strong>着<strong>工作与生活平衡</strong>的困境。一方面, 存在着女警人数所占<strong>比例</strong>小、<strong>岗位</strong>受<strong>限</strong>、晋升和参与决策的机会有限、职业安全<strong>遭受</strong>到<strong>威胁</strong>等限制职业发展的问题。另一方面, 繁忙的警务工作使其无法<strong>扮演</strong>好家庭角色, 内心<strong>冲突</strong>激烈。促进女警工作与生活平衡需要社会方面与个体方面的双重努力, 特别是社会<strong>政策</strong>的支持。
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Police work was once an occupational area forbidden to women. In the wake of [current] social development, the continuous increase in the number of policewomen and the continuous expansion in the scope of police work, policewomen have become an extraordinary force in upholding law and order and cracking down on crime.  [At the same time,] this development has left policewomen faced with difficulties in [maintaining] work-life balance. On the one hand, [there are work-related issues such as] their small number in proportion [to male policemen], a limited number of posts they may accept, few opportunities for promotion or participation in decision-making, threats to their occupational safety, and so on. On the other hand, [there are personal issues such as the fact that] the frenetic pace of police work makes it almost impossible to play a proper role in domestic life, creating an intense inner conflict in [policewomen's] heart. In order to improve policewomen's work-life balance, we must strive [to address] both the social and individual aspects [of this problem], particularly in the form of support through social policies. 
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