Women Entering the Workforce Leading to Greater Equality
Women Entering the Workforce Leading to Greater Equality
How often do you see a woman as an executive in charge of a large company? And of those women that have succeeded into these positions, how many of them have families at home? Not all that many. It seems that the way society looked at women in the past has hindered them from succeeding in both the family and career aspects simultaneously. Many women choose one or the other. Either to raise a family of their own or to pursue their career, especially if their career choice is not one of the jobs considered being “women’s work”.
In the past women were looked at as the more nurturing of the sexes and that is why they typically stayed at home and raised the family while the men went out and brought home the bacon so to speak. If you have ever seen the television shows of the 50’s you would have noticed that most of the families on these shows consisted of a father that worked a nine to five job, a couple of kids, and a mother. The mother was a housewife who’s sole duties were to raise the children, clean the house and have a hot meal on the table for her husband as he returned home from work. In many instances the women on these shows never worked out side of the home and when they did decided to try they normally failed and at the end of the show realized that their place was in the home raising the children. Never once did I ever see a show that while the woman decided to give a career a try that the man stayed at home and took care of the children, and not once did I see one of these women succeed and stick with her job.
But this is changing. More often then not women in today’s society are going out there and starting careers of their own. And these are not necessarily careers that are in the category of women’s work. Many of these women are going out and getting positions that would normally not be considered “women’s work”. What I mean by women’s work is those jobs that are normally possessed by women. Such as waitressing, secretarial work, teaching elementary...