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 towards creation of equal opportunities for both men and women in different legislative assemblies in different countries. These legislations have also made it easier for women to enter into business world. Other factors that have contributed to the entry of women include high inflation rates that have led to the rise in cost of living, and increase in access to education by women. These changes have made women to enter into a wide range of major occupations that were originally dominated by men, like engineering, internet Communication technology and other occupations that require technical knowhow. In the recent past the role of women has really changed in business. This paper will be analyzing how women’s leadership is being viewed in different countries like China, Chile and the united sates (Javalgi et al., 2011).
This paper explores how a woman’s role changed in business and impact of their entry into business world.
How a Woman has Changed Business
According to Lee (2014), women are now permanently in the business world and their contribution in the development of business cannot be ignored. It is now clear that majority of modern women are going to spend most of their time in the workforce, therefore men should get used to this fact. Ever since women entered in the world of business, they have brought so many changes in how business is done. Other than making decisions concerning household purchases, they have brought significant changes on how to approach customers who are the major shareholders in any business organization. Women have brought vital changes in marketing department. Generally, women have performed exemplarily well in marketing of the organizational because they naturally good with approaching customers. Women have also risen to different managerial positions that they could not hold before and they have proven that they can perform well in the management level. Women have generally done well in the management role because they are naturally persuasive and have proven to be good with decision-making. Before women rose to different managerial positions in different organizations there have been challenges that they have had overcome. For instance, there have several stereotype arguments that have been formed against women that made it initially for them to rise to different managerial posts in different organizations (Javalgi et al., 2011).
Comparative Analysis of Attitudes towards Women Managers in China, Chile and the United States of America
This paper will be looking into the role that women play as workers or managers in various organizations in China, Chile and the USA. With the changes that are currently taking place in the world, women have also not been left behind. Currently in the global economic arena, nearly all the organizations in China, Chile and the USA, have adopted Weber’s bureaucratic model of management, or are planning to do that. Almost all of the organizations that are operating in these three countries have got their dark sides. For instance, women have been given equal opportunities as compared to men. Women have not been given equal opportunities to occupy managerial positions. This paper will try to go deeply and look into factors that have hindered women from becoming mangers in different organizations in the world. This paper will be looking into different attitudes or perceptions that people in China, Chile and the USA have towards women becoming managers (Javalgi et al., 2011).
Currently not only in the under developed countries where there are stereotypes about women, but also those countries that are perceived as developed. There are several stereotype talks that pose huge challenges for women to rise into different managerial positions. For instance, there have traditional beliefs that presume that managerial posts are only for men and therefore women are not supposed to occupy those posts. the reasons as to why men are considered as good managers in different countries is due to the fact they are naturally masculine, naturally authoritative, ambitious and are objective. Although there were some positive attitudes towards women being in managerial post was quite positive in Chile and the United States, but there was clear evidence that there is still huge parity in the number of women in managerial posts in comparison to the number of women holding those positions in the two countries. In China, both women and men have got negative towards women becoming even supervisors, leave alone mid-level managers (Javalgi et al., 2011). Other reasons that were given as the possible cause for the presence of more men in the managerial posts are that wo...