Although women's wages are improving, Department of Labor statistics show that the ratio of their earnings with that of men have been roughly static since 1960.

尽管女性的工资在提高，但劳工部的统计数据显示，自1960年以来，女性收入与男性收入的比率基本保持不变。

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But because of the labor shortage, it's hard to get that ratio now.

但是现在，出现了用工荒，已经很难达到这样的比例了。

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Before, we wanted three females for every male. But because of the labor shortage, it's hard to get that ratio now.

之前，我们男女比例控制在1比3，但现在劳动力短缺，要维持这个比例是很难了。

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These three virtues in the fiscal cliff are highly positive and will only increase the pool of available risk-taking capital in the economy, thereby increasing the capital-to-labor ratio and improving the national standard of living.

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For some within the supply-side community who believe in creative destruction and the natural power of an economy to renew itself, the solution is stable money (which Federal quantitative easing prevents) reducing the regulatory burden and increasing the capital to labor ratio.

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The labor demand-supply ratio in China rose further to 1.08 in the first quarter from 1.04 in the fourth, the highest level since its inception in the first quarter of 2001.

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