As
stated by professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter in the YouTube video, Women, Ambition
and (still) the Pay Gap, Harvard Business Review (2010), I think it has taken a
long time to get many women at the top…Its just getting up to the very peak, it
has still been an issue and I’m thinking there are many reasons for that…one,
is that the jobs at the very top of any organization are really different from
those below, they require a kind of dedication and commitment, 24/7 being
always on…one of the many hidden sources of discrimination that still goes on
many companies is sort of informal and behind the scene. When there is a
discussion in a private conversation about who are the people we should put in
those positions…well, she isn’t really quite as dedicated. We love the fact that she’s family friendly,
and we’re very family friendly. We don’t really want to take her away from her
family….and so they don’t even give the woman a choice.
Furthermore, according
to Yukl (2013), gender egalitarianism is the point to which men and women
receive equal treatment, and both masculine and feminine attributes are
considered significant and pleasing. In cultures with high gender
egalitarianism, there is less differentiation of sex roles, and most jobs are
not separated by gender. Women have more equal opportunity to be chosen for
important leadership positions, although access is still greater for public
sector positions than in business corporations.
Reflecting on what
Rosabeth Moss Kanter says in her video interview, and how that does coincide
with what Yukl says about gender-based discrimination from his book; I do
believe there is an overlap. Professor Kanter talks about how women have been
striving to get to the top positions in the workplace that has many type of gender
discrimination going on. She mentioned
there has been some progress in the past 10 years, but until today most women
are still in the low level positions in the workplace due to their gender and
some non work related responsibilities, like being family oriented. In other words, the position that the
professor would like to see most women at in the workplace is at a position
where they’re being treated equally as men and get just as much pay as men.
Just like Yukl described in the book about gender egalitarianism, which is a
concept of workplace or society that do not see women as less important than
men, where women will have equal opportunity as a men do. What professor Kanter is striving for in the
workplace is the implementation of the definition of gender egalitarianism as
defined by Yukl.
As
stated by professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter in the YouTube video, Women, Ambition
and (still) the Pay Gap, Harvard Business Review (2010), Women don’t always
have the same statue as thought leaders, or authorities that men do and as soon
as we consider women voices to be extremely wise. I think that will also show
young women that they have the responsibility and the talent to use their
degrees in the most productive way they can.
Hence, I do agree there
is gender discrimination going on in the workplace. I have witnessed it in my
career as a professional employee, and I believe as a society in this modern
age we as people can and should do better. Not, looking at one another and pre-judge
someone due to their gender. I believe everyone should be given an equal
opportunity until he or she has proven that he or she can’t actually do the
tasks at hand. The world would be a much better place, if we stop
discrimination and treat one another the way he or she would like to be
treated.
Reference
Harvard
Business Review. (2010). Women, Ambition and (still) the Pay Gap. YouTube.
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhquUOlBuOY&feature=youtu.be&t=5s
Yukl, G. (2013). Cross-cultural Leadership and Diversity. In Leadership in organizations. (8th ed).
(pp.366,). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
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