Standardized Testing: Women in Professional Positions, Development in the Corporate World, Social and Economic Benefits

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Introduction
The absence of women in professional positions has been an element that existed since the beginning of time due to their uneven statute. Their roles in different positions in the society is brought by them lacking cultural consensus which hence determines the period at which they can amplitude their qualities, and factor remains the main problem. Men have it all when it comes to executive positions in several corporate organizations and leadership in general (Hutchings, et.al 2010). The numerous positions that are men dominated in professional and leadership domains generally are far much greater and highly populated by this gender as compared to that of their feminine counterparts. Considering the disparities both at the national and international levels, the global workforce still remains gender-segregated with the progress in achieving gender equity still depicted as slow and uneven.
Corporate professional roles and leadership opportunities have far been ascribed as befitting to men with statistics from several organizations indicating the fact that there are a considerably a number of men as compared to women in leadership and executive roles. According to Hutchings, et.al (2010), the variables between the number of women and men in professional and leadership roles has been identified to vary in different countries depending on the culture, religion and population demographics of these regions (p.64). This study therefore seeks to determine the perception of the adoption of women on male dominated leadership in the traditionally male dominated organizational position as inferred in the contemporary society.
Societies Perception of Women's Adoption of Stereotypically Male Dominated Leadership Roles
Despite different advocative approaches that have been developed to ensure that there are equal opportunities through the introduction of legislations, the opportunity of women in the society in professional and leadership positions still remains unequal (Tlaiss, & Mendelson, 2014). Corporate managerial roles and organizational leadership opportunities have still been dominated by men even though there are remarkable developments in some regions. Women in this contemporary society are still underrepresented within the top leadership positions and overrepresented at the bottom of the influential leadership functions in a wide range of institutions.
The most common and convenient explanation for the underrepresentation in leadership positions in women is in the manner in which they are viewed in the society and their choices into these positions that are influenced by these views (Tlaiss, & Mendelson, 2014). Prominent television talks, news publications and mockeries from the society have tuned out to portray an image on women as those who opt out of their professional jobs to keep their homes running, a factor that clearly determines that they cannot be handled senior leadership roles and positions.
As determined by a majority of views in some regions, women have the capacity to be good leaders as their male counterparts in different professional establishments. According to research conducted in the westernized nations, most western countries find women i...