Are women taking over the workplace?
Fri, 01/08/2010 - 09:07
A recent Economist article (http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15174489&sour...) argues that women are gradually taking over in the American workforce. However, the story adds, "Only 2% of the bosses of America’s largest companies and 5% of their peers in Britain are women. They are also paid significantly less than men on average."
Are women taking over despite the inequities? What do you think?
Hello WriterGal:
I do believe that there has been an incredible influx of women into the workplace. Women have in a lot of cases become the primary breadwinners. It's a trend that began more than 30 years ago as women flooded into colleges, universities and trade schools.
According to an article in USA Today “Women Gain as Men Lose Jobs” (2009), women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the workforce for the first time, a historic reversal caused by long-term changes in women's roles and massive job losses for men during this recession.
Women held 49.83% of the nation's 132 million jobs in June and they're gaining the vast majority of jobs in the few sectors of the economy that are growing, according to the most recent numbers available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Dr. Madeline
President/CEO
Deline Institute for Professional Development
Website: www.delineinstitute.net
Email: women [at] delineinstitute [dot] net (women [at] delineinstitute [dot] net)