Describe How Woman's Role Changed In Business

How Woman's Role Changed In Business
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Women empowerment has enabled most women to come out and take part in economic development in various countries across the world. Women have not only joined businesses, but they have also challenged for managerial posts in different organization. Despite the fact that women are able to hold managerial posts in some organizations, they are still being discriminated against. There are several stereotypes that have been spread against women that make it difficult for people to embrace women’s leadership. In the U.S, 51% of women have been employed in different organizations. Out of these employed women, 16% are holding executive managerial posts like directors in several organizations in US. In a country like China, both men and women are still not ready for women managers. Chile on the other hand, the sample research that was conducted showed that both women and men are having positive attitude towards leadership in different organizations. One thing that is common in both women and men holding different managerial positions in different organizations is that they are both applying Weber’s bureaucratic theory. It was also discovered that most of the organizations are conforming to the demands of various feminist groups by enabling most women to hold various managerial positions in different organizations. One thing that is clear is that most people are not yet for women leadership especially executive managerial positions like directors and chief executive officers. There are still very few women sitting among the board of directors in most organizations across the world. This was confirmed by the research that was carried out in different sectors like car manufacturing industries, banking and investments, and in the information technology sectors. It was revealed that in the three sectors that the research was carried in, it was discovered that women were only occupying only 16.1% of executive positions in banking and investments, in car manufacturing industry women only occupied only 16.5% of all the executive positions and all the executive positions in the information technology women occupied only 17%.
Introduction
As can be noticed in the society today, women empowerment has enabled most women to come out and take part are part in the growth of economy. As a matter of fact women are becoming stronger and stronger virtually every day despite the huge gender inequality. Women’s role began to change during the Second World War when women started doing some of the roles that was originally done by men like providing and protecting families (Aronso, 2012). There has been constant growth in the number of women in different work places ever since they entered in the economic system to supplement their of men’s earning. Hard economic times have also prompted women to enter into different businesses to enable them provide for their families’ needs. Entry of women in the business world has brought several positive changes in the way business is run. Increase of different social groups like the feminist movements have further catalyzed the entry of women in the business world. There have also been several legislations that are geared ...