Women at Work
Throughout the 20th century women have had to fight harder to get ahead in the male owned workplace. With obstacles such as discrimination, lower wages, and the lack of management positions how are women competing with men?
In today’s society women are as active as they have ever been in our workforce. Women and men traditionally have worked in different specific occupations within the professional occupational category, a pattern that continued in 2005. For example, women were less likely than men to be employed in some of the highest-paying occupations, such as engineers and mathematical and computer scientists. Instead, women were more likely to work in lower paying professional occupations, such as teachers.
In countries like Japan or China with a long a strict traditional it is very hard for women to break out from the traditional rule. Women in managerial roles even go well beyond the challenge of balancing work and home life.
Japan’s government, responding to mounting international criticism about the paucity of women’s career opportunities, has made to improve the situation. They passed law baring discrimination in the workplace. These days, companies from auto markers to bank are rushing to launch programmes to train and retrain female managers.
So I think it is hard for women to break out from the old roles and a positive discrimination is a chance that women in high level positions are normal.