Four Obstacles Women Still Face In The Workplace

Ramesha, H. (n.d.). 4 Obstacles Women Still Face in the Workplace. Retrieved February 26, 2018, from http://insidetech.monster.com/benefits/articles/8057-4-obstacles-women-still-face-in-the-workplace?page=3

The article claims that even though gender wage gap has been narrowed for years, there are still four obstacles prevent women from being successful in their workplace, especially in terms of high-earning professions. These four key challenges are maternity leave, leadership roles, sexual harassment, and the glass ceiling. The author holds a positive attitude towards these issues that as long as the society contributes efforts, problems can be solved in the great future. Considering unpaid long-term maternity leave, Ramesha suggests that

Research shows that women always face obstacles when they are pursuing higher positions. Using data were collected from 179 working women who currently worked or quitted in the public or private sector, researchers find significant relationships among these three factors. Results also indicate that career advancement satisfaction exerts a mediating effect on denial, resilience, and acceptance glass ceiling beliefs and quit intention. Findings are beneficial to help women understand how their glass ceiling beliefs and career satisfaction drivers influence how they react to changes on their career path and how employers to implement their employment strategies. This book could help me analyze what role women play in terms of the glass ceiling. I will use women’s glass ceiling beliefs as one of the reason glass ceilings formed in the

Arquette stated the reason she chose to speak out the issue of gender income inequality is because “I was winning that award for the part of a single mom who was the primary breadwinner and caretaker for her kids and I thought about how different her life would have been had she actually been paid her full dollar”. She believes that United States—where women earn approximately 78% of what men earn—needs stronger pay laws and government regulations. Arquette introduced the “true living wage”, which is an actual living income rather than a minimum wage to survive in deep poverty. It is because most of the minimum wage workers are women who have children to feed. I will use Arquette’s speech’s words:“To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America” as my hook to start my research