Monday, October 31, 2005

Glass Ceiling Still Persists

I read an interesting article in the Washington Post called, "Office Stereotyping and How it Stifles," concerning how women and men feel that a woman's role in the workplace is still inferior or more supportive to a man's. It pointed out some of the pyschological attributions made between women and men about gender roles and their affect on leadership. Basically, women and men in the workplace still feel that women are not able to take on leadership roles, and are not adept to problem-solving and delegtaing tasks. I think that this article is interesting because it shows the affect of female entrants in certain professions- some women won't take or enter certain jobs, or some women don't even finish higher level education because these stereotypes still persist.

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