Please combine Du Lala’s employment experience and use the gender perspective and gender analysis methods to analyze the problems that female college students will encounter in the employment process.

Looking at "Du Lala's Promotion" from a gender perspective

Compared with the fashionable visual spectacle and collective fantasy created by Xu Jinglei in the movie, Li Ke's novel "Du Lala" "Promotion Story" has more realistic elements: it presents to readers the current life of a specific group of people in China - their code of conduct, values ??and "beliefs", as well as the various rules in the professional arena in which they live. and unspoken rules, all written in a straightforward and unambiguous way. In response to the "law of reality", the so-called "those who follow me prosper and those who go against me perish", it is in this sense that it completely deserves the recommendation on the cover (which is also the author's own self-praise): "Her The story is more worthy of reference than Bill Gates’.”

Perhaps what deserves more attention is the influence and popularity of the novel, as well as the "cultural" meaning it embodies. Various interpretations have been made on the popularity of "workplace novels" or the rise and "rise" of so-called "middle class" values. In addition, gender issues may also be an angle from which to observe this novel, and the gender expressions involved in the novel also provide us with an angle from which to observe the current social gender culture. In this sense, the novel can be highlighted as: the realistic situation and "growth history" of a contemporary Chinese intellectual woman.

Du Lala, "a typical representative of the middle class", is also a typical intellectual woman - "of average good looks, with no special background and a good education." However, after thirty years of reform and opening up, the title of "intellectual women" has long lost its original "aura"; after thirty years, it has lost its glory, and intellectual women have become the most confused group in Chinese society. One group - they are female college students who find it difficult to find a job in the talent market, or they are "leftover women" who are in a dilemma in the marriage market. The heavy squeeze of reality has made this group of people who were most likely to have a romantic temperament no longer romantic. From this, it is not difficult to understand the popularity of "Du Lala's Promotion" among intellectual women, because it provides intellectual women with "Legal" realistic demands and survival methods in a male world.

As the "warm-up" stage of Du Lala's career, the "introduction" part of the novel describes her work experience in a private enterprise before entering DB Company, a "famous American Fortune 500 company". From the perspective of novel art, these few pages can be called the most exciting paragraphs of the novel - the characters are vivid and the narrative is vivid; in comparison, the main part of the novel is more like a textbook of case analysis. The private enterprise owner's continuous and pressing sexual harassment taught Du Lala the first lesson in the workplace; her graduate student boyfriend taught her the second lesson with practical actions - the boyfriend went abroad and did not return, and the two became "friendly" "After breaking up, her boyfriend taught her a way to ease the pain using the so-called "SWOT analysis" (referring to the analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), which can be simplified into one sentence: "For girls, youth is short, so hold on to it. Love with too many variables is the greatest danger." It is worth noting that these two experiences are fully gendered, that is, they are not issues of human nature in the general sense, but issues that are unique to women. In the former lesson, Du Lala changed her career plan: she wanted to enter a "real foreign company" without sexual harassment; while the lessons Du Lala learned from the latter lesson made her face the successful man Wang Wei. Adopted a rational and calm attitude in pursuit.

A noteworthy detail in the novel is that when Du Lala first entered DB, she asked her subordinate Helen: "How many female directors and regional managers do DB have in China?" Helen's answer was: "There are twenty-four general directors in the country, six of whom are female... There are eleven regional managers in the country, three of whom are female regional managers." Du Lala immediately calculated that women made up less than a quarter of the management team. A savvy person like Du Lala will of course understand that she is still in a male world, so she is probably also thinking about ways and methods she can rely on to stand out in this male world.

From a gender perspective, what Du Lala has to face is nothing more than men and women.

Within DB Company, the men directly related to Du Lala can be roughly divided into two categories: "powerful people" and "competitors". The former includes President He Haode, Human Resources Director Liszt, and Director of Key Account Department Wang Wei etc., the latter includes two recruitment managers Li Wenhua and Tong Jiaming, salary manager Wang Hong, subordinate Zhou Liang, etc.; as for women, in addition to the heartless subordinate Helen, the boss Rose, subordinate Zhou Jiuyi, "love rival" Daixi, etc. constitutes Du Lala's "competitor". In such a gender/power structure, what Du Lala did was to rely on male power holders (including her own efforts, of course) to defeat male and female competitors. Surrounding her was a complex gender/power playground. The novel describes the complexity of this gender/power relationship, but uses the ease and ingenuity of popular novels to greatly alleviate its cruelty and strictly limit it to a bottom line accepted by public ethics and morality. For example, there seems to be some ambiguity between Du Lala and the noble man she relies on, CEO He Haode, but the novel emphasizes that the reason why He Haode cultivated Du Lala was entirely out of her diligence. A "pure" appreciation of studious and intelligent aptitudes. The relationship between Du Lala, He Haode and Liszt is close to a "father-daughter" relationship, which allows women to "legitimately" get help from men; while another "legitimate" relationship It's a love relationship. Although "office romance" is not very legal in foreign corporate culture, it is still legal in public morality. Therefore, it is natural for Du Lala to get support and help from her lover Wang Wei, but it is unreasonable for Daixi, who has ended her relationship with Wang Wei, to want to seek promotion in her position through Wang Wei. In this way, Dai Xi, who might have been more realistic, was treated as a "bad woman" in male discourse. This beautiful and charming woman relies on "sex" to attract men to obtain practical benefits; she has a strong relationship with Wang Wei and Du Lala's painstaking revenge seems irrational. As a result, her fate of losing both her life and money and being "out of the game" early seemed well deserved, or even very satisfying. The novel specifically explains the positive and negative meanings of the English idiom "you deserve it" when translated into Chinese - "well-deserved" or "deserved". The novel shows the gender/power game from both positive and negative sides. rules, which are undoubtedly still dominated by men.

On the other hand, the novel promotes female consciousness to a certain extent. Du Lala's excellent qualities are compared to the various shortcomings of the men around him: some are stubborn, some are indecisive, some are arrogant, or some have low "emotional intelligence". Du Lala has two subordinates: male Zhou Liang and female Zhou Jiuyi. The former is incompetent but stubborn and arrogant; the latter is so smart that Du Lala cannot help but be wary. There is an interesting detail in the novel: Zhou Liang was scolded by Du Lala until he was speechless when he was doing something bad. When he got home, he couldn't help complaining to his wife. Unexpectedly, his wife clearly sided with Du Lala and pointed out her husband's fault. Caught between women, Zhou Liang's male dignity was completely lost. As for the relationship between Du Lala and Wang Wei, the author did not highlight Wang Wei's ability, but constantly highlighted his low EQ (emotional quotient) in front of Du Lala. Regarding Wang Wei's persistent pursuit, Du Lala refused to agree because she was afraid that office romance, which was not allowed by the company, would affect her career. She did not want to sacrifice her future for a man. Such values ??may not necessarily be justified. It is feminist in nature, but it can only be said to be individualistic. But the further development of the novel is that Wang Wei voluntarily left DB Company for Du Lala's future, while Du Lala stayed in DB Company to continue her promising promotion journey. The classic patriarchal discourse "Behind every successful man there is always a woman" is reversed here. At the end of the novel, Li Du meets Du Lala by chance on a plane. He is attracted by her charming appearance and temperament, and prepares to strike up a conversation, but is ultimately impressed by Du Lala, whose mental ability is far superior to him. A woman who can look down upon men is already Maturity comes from training.

Female writer Wang Anyi was keenly aware many years ago that cities are more suitable spaces for women. In the article "Men and Women, Women and the City", she wrote: "Humans The farther you go, the farther away you are from the land. Leaving the soft land and entering the world of hard cement and metal. This is a world with more sources of survival than the place where humans were born. Machines have replaced heavy labor and the division of labor in society is complete. The process breaks down into trivial, dexterous tasks that require only a small amount of physical strength and intelligence.

The means of making a living vary widely. In this world, women's abilities that were previously disdained by the land have been recognized and developed. ...Due to that innate flexibility, it is easier and more effective for her to adapt to the ever-changing life than for a rigid man." However, at the end of this article, the author said: "You must admire Your husband", because "this is nature, no matter how unreasonable it is, we can only admit it." Wang Anyi's unwillingness to compromise reveals the dilemma of female discourse - a dilemma in the power relationship between the sexes. In one sentence In popular words, no matter how successful a woman is, she still longs for the embrace of a man. As proof of this statement, coupled with the necessary "warmth" of popular novels, "Du Lala's Promotion" gives this ending: career. The successful Du Lala was still persistently waiting for the man she loved, and finally reunited with her lover by chance. "The lover finally became the right person" and "the love and career were both fruitful"

Almost thirty years. Recently, the female writer Zhang Jie complained about the oppression and restraint of reality on women in the novel "Ark". One of the heroines in the novel, Liu Quan, was also a top student in the English department. She was also sexually harassed by her boss at work. She was weak by nature and swallowed it. When her girlfriend With the help of the "upright official" Director Zhu, she was transferred from her original unit with great difficulty. As a new generation of intellectual women, Du Lala, who has more "freedom" under the market system, was able to transfer from her job more easily. The boss who harassed her escaped. In her opinion, "there is no justice, no humiliation, only choice." As the earliest contemporary literary work with feminist consciousness in mainland China, the three intellectual women in "The Ark" are in the same boat*. In the ** economy, *** people resist the evil waves of the male world, full of female elite-style excitement and pain, shouting out the desire to build a new world of gender equality; and in "Du Lala's Promotion", This desire to transform the world has long been wiped out by reality, and has been replaced by compromise, familiarity, mastery and utilization of the rules of the sexes. The battle between the sexes is no longer fierce, but the war between women is in the "golden branch desire evil" mode. In the process of evolution from "intellectual women" to "white-collar women", changes in women and the times continue to sound.