The working environment is changing day by day and companies
are now employing more and more women. Even though women are moving up
the corporate ladder they are still faced with constraints in their companies.
For example, the women in my company are usually faced with constraints like
glass ceiling, concrete ceilings, gender wage gap and sexual harassment.
Glass ceiling is a metaphor that divides women from the top
management positions in the firm. You must be wondering that why this glass
ceiling does persists in this time of equal employment? Well to answer this
question; the explanation to the persistence of glass ceiling is the
monoculture at the top levels in the organization. I have seen my superiors
face such kind of a challenge all the time, they are unable to climb the ladder
that reaches the top management positions within the company and there are no
specific reason for what they are unable to do so.
Concrete ceiling has been perceived by the minority women in
a study as a social barrier, this prevents them from getting top level
positions in organization of the corporate world especially in a country like
America. While all the companies are diversifying themselves, but there have
been no gains for the minority females who are working in an organization. For
example, I was reading this report and I found out that in United Kingdom there
are now few women are being appointed as MPs, police chief and senior judges
then in the past few years ago, they are even less then from last year as well.
the number of female holding a top level job have decrease due to the Equality
and Human Rights Commission list which was complied and the progress has slowed
down quite a bit because even now most employers believe that the place of a
women is to stay at home and raise children even though these days women are
getting an higher educated and are very particular in having careers in the
corporate world.
Women in my organization and me including are faced with the
problem of wage gap, that is there is a guy in same level of position in
another department, gets more money that I do, the reason being that he is able
to stay more late in the office than me and plus he is a guy. This wage gap is
always present in all the fields of the professional life for example, in the
blue collar positions as well as in the managerial positions and professional
occupations as well.
Sexual harassment is not actually about sex but rather about
power but more to the point, abuse of power. This is the most common of all
problems that a woman is faced in the organization is sexual harassment, i.e.
they are harassed by the co-male workers in the office. For example, a friend
of mine was working in this organization where she was sexually harassed
verbally; one of her workers would make comments and whisper some obscene
phrases to her during the work time. Harassment is not just sexual but also
includes harassment based on race, religion or disability etc.
Constraints have caused a great deal of problem for the
women in working environment; it is something that is not changing with the
changing cultures of the organizations. There are still some men out there, who
do not give women the respect or believe in their capabilities or are just
plain scared that if a woman has the ability, she would exceed me and this
leads to them causing problems like glass ceiling, concrete ceilings, gender wage
gap and sexual harassment.
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