Barriers for Women in the Workplace: Inequality in Representation and Opportunity

Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Course: Date: Women in Work The most common form of division of labor among most cultures in the world is based on gender and has shaped the experiences of women in the workplace. Majority of the traditional cultures believed that women and men were different and this defined the nature of work they would do efficiently. With research and policy, it has become necessary for companies to increase gender diversity especially by the inclusion of women in the workplace (Harnois and Bastos 285). Significant progress has been made in the United States concerning the experiences of women in companies. However, various concerns exist as indicated by data on the representation of women in management, cases of harassment, and interpersonal discrimination in companies. Women face inequalities driven by gender and most of the issues they raise are hardly addressed by their managers. Even with the rise in the number of women in the workplace, mistreatment against women exists as evidenced by lack of representation in top managerial positions, cases of bullying, sexual harassment, and unreported interpersonal discrimination. Efforts to increase diversity in the workplace have focused on increasing the proportion of women in the workplace but little has been accomplished in the management and executive areas. Employers have been at the forefront in facilitating the diversity goals by hiring more women in their organizations. When recruiting for each position, managers have attempted to increase the number of women hired by encouraging them to apply. Additionally, equal considerations are made for women and men seeking equal positions in the workplace. Consequently, there has been an increase in the proportion of women in the overall workforce of the United State