Video Review: Barriers Hindering Women in the Workplace

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Introduction
This paper gives a summary of the eight videos that reflect on general advice on how to achieve success, challenges facing women at home and workplace, and advice specifically to women on how to advance their careers and lead a successful life.
Video 1: Sheryl Sandberg’s advice for women
Sheryl Sandberg is a US author, activist, and technology executive. As of 2013 August, Sheryl was the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. In the video, Sheryl argues that although, women have achieved progress concerning gender equality, this is not seen in leadership positions. Female board positions, parliament members, and heads of states are only 13-15 percent, which has made the improvement over the previous decade. Sheryl identifies that just like men, women also should create tougher decisions between lifestyle and work, citing that with 75% of married men serving leadership positions compared to 30% of married women.
Sheryl is talking about what women should do so that to remain active in the workforce and ascend toward leadership. She cites that typically men tend to overrate themselves whereas women normally underestimate their capabilities. Similarly, men tend to attribute the success they made of themselves, whereas women normally say they got success because somebody else assisted them or they obtained luck. She emphasizes that a woman cannot obtain a promotion if she does not believe in herself. Sheryl, therefore, urges women to have confidence in themselves to make contributions just like men do.
Sheryl acknowledges that sexism and discrimination are often barriers hindering women in the workplace. She believes that sometimes women are their own enemies in career development. Many women allow their professions to stagnate since they believe that having children interferes with their career development. Sheryl is a mother of two and has successfully managed to develop her career. She challenges mothers who are working to expect their husbands to share in housework and childcare duties instead of doing everything themselves. This is what Sheryl means by advising women to make their husband real partners.
Video two: Marissa Mayer’s ten rules for success
Marissa explains about top ten rules for achieving success. Marissa is a US businesswoman with a degree in Computer Science. She is currently working as the CEO of Yahoo and previously, she was a long-time Executive Officer for Google. Here is the summary of her top ten rules for success.
The first rule is to find a rhythm. A person can find his or her rhythm by understanding what makes her or him resentful and to prevent it. A person cannot have everything he or she wants, but she can choose important things. Thinking this manner empowers a person to work hard for a long time.
The second rule is to do something that an individual is not ready to do. This is how a person can work on the hurdles and eventually grows.
The third rule is balancing between execution and innovation. Innovation requires resources to be allocated effectively. Marissa says that the opposite of innovation is execution. She advises that it is important for people to...