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Breaking through Gender Barriers at the Workplace
Gender barriers in corporate culture lead to adverse implications for women because it affects their career advancement and earnings. The few women who inherit the male-dominated higher paying departments experience gender discrimination. Due to gender assumptions and social isolation at the workplace, women in high paying jobs are at more risk of resigning or acquiring fewer promotion opportunities.
Workplaces that are gender-segregated are infiltrated with so many stereotypes that proper training may not change people’s attitude. Gender barriers can however push women to search for better job opportunities and lifestyles. People at the workplace however often assume that mothers who choose to work part-time or be full-time mothers are given a chance to make independent choices while there are numerous constraints involved in such situations.
Another major contributor to the gender income gap is the assumption that some occupations only belong to women and others are just for men. For example, the lowest income generating occupations including assistant teacher, housecleaner, receptionist, dishwasher, social worker, counter attendant and cashier are occupied by women whereby the men and few women heavily dominate the highest revenue making occupation such as lawyer, doctor, dentist and engineer. The healthcare industry is the most likely industry to offer women leadership positions such as human resource managers and supervisors whereas the manufacturing industry is the least likely. A significant observation is that when women become flooded in a specific occupation, its income and status declines which make men resign in search of better jobs with higher pay and status. Alternatively if the income and status of a job decline for a particular reason, women stand a higher chance of being recruited into the occupation.