Thursday 28 June 2018

The Need To Empower Women Professionals Company

By Cynthia Hamilton


If the world was fair, it would not be the one that humanity made. Humankind has never been fair, and while there individuals within the species who have tried to change that, their efforts have gone largely without consequence. But just because there has been failure to make change in the past does not mean that change should be given up on. No, it means that exact opposite. Fairness and equality must be fought for even harder. As such, corporations need to empower women professionals company.

Empowering women has many benefits. For one thing, female employees are just like any other employees. When they feel like valuable assets to a company, they are happier and thus more productive. Productive employees are always good for the bottom line.

But getting into a workplace in the first place can be difficult for a woman. For starters, many hiring managers are often biased, whether conscious of it or not, towards male applicants. For another, when a woman does get hired, they will face many hurdles. They will often be passed over for promotion in favor of men. They can and often are paid less than their male counterparts despite similar levels of experience and positions within the corporate hierarchy. Their ideas can be credited to male coworkers. Then there is the sexual harassment that is prevalent in many offices.

Men are taught to solve their problems one way, by going right through them as society dictates that a guy must be direct and aggressive. Women on the other hand are raised differently, they are taught to be polite and less direct. Thus, when it comes to problem solving, a woman will have a different point of view than a man and will see a workaround whereas a man might see an obstacle to be mowed down.

It is the 21st century. Within the new millennium, there are now many affirmative actions laws that positively discriminate towards minority workers. Having at east a few females in the office means following at least a few of those affirmative action guidelines.

Men are taught to be aggressive. As such, many people, even other men, will instinctively see one as a threat. However, many people were primarily cared for by their mothers as babies, which leads them to be instinctually trusting of female figures. This can then manipulated during a negotiation.

Ever since the 1950s, girls have been much more likely to graduate from high school than boys. That trend has continued, as girls have continually out earned boys when it comes to education. Over half of all college degrees in the United States now go towards women, and this trend also goes up to the secondary level, where masters degrees and doctorate degrees are affected by this shift as well.

It should be noted that correlation does not imply causation. It should also be noted that a company with females in leadership roles tend to outperform one which does not. Now, this may all just be a coincidence, or it could be indicative of some greater truth that many refuse to acknowledge.

Fighting for equality is always a worthy endeavor. But some are more capable of making that equality a reality than most. Those in positions of power should take care to make a conscious effort to be egalitarian.




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