Women In Work Place
Discrimination Against Women in the Workplace Introduction and Background The ways in which society has distributed work and status among men and women has changed over time. Early in human history, the fact that women gave birth and breastfed their babies brought about a division of labor between men and women in many cultures. For most part of the world, women took on most of the responsibility for child care while men worked to produce food and shelter. ... Men who worked outside the home for money, had more economic power than women; who mainly performed unpaid labor inside the house. A women working at home had to rely on someone else, typically a man, to make the money for life’s necessities. ... But there were some women that worked, but only landed low-wage jobs such as: secretaries, nurses, housekeepers, elementary school teachers, and child care providers. However, the civil rights and women’s rights movements in the 60s and 70s broke down many barriers to female employment. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, many women entered the workforce. “Today, at least 74 percent of American women between the ages of 25 and 54 are employed, and women make up 46 percent of the civilian workforce. Many contend that women still face obstruction in the working world because of sex discrimination, which often takes the form of female segregation in low-status, low-wage positions with limited opportunities for advancement.