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In a recent article entitled Why Women Vanish As They Move Up The Career Ladder by Bob Sherwin. He points out several reasons that keep most women from advancing up in the career work. His purpose is to let it be known so that maybe some women can avoid these feelings or thoughts.

As Sherwin states "Whether they want it or not, it’s also clear that women end up with a double burden of responsibility in our society at large" Although it's still unclear as to why, I believe that this accounts for more than half of the reason as to why we don't see as many women holding higher positions in the world today.

Next mentioned in the article "most damaging reason that women are vanishing from the corporate ladder is the traditional belief that women are simply less effective leaders than men." If women do decide to start making their way up, I do believe that this is an important point whether it be true or not. Being strong and assertive is a must for women to survive in the career world.

Lastly as stated by Sherwin "Many take the form of assumed limitations on the part of senior hiring managers like, “she wouldn't want a job that required a relocation," “the hours required in this position wouldn't work for her family," or “women don’t have career aspirations for this kind of role.” Not all women should automatically put into this stereotypical position, and its wrong for the hiring managers to even base one woman's situation off of another's keeping them from obtaining the position, a place where someone or something is located or has been put, they are applying for. Making it harder for women to get jobs, the hiring managers in result continue the search for men.

This reminds me of a time when my mother went and tried to apply for a job at a place where mainly men worked and they basically told her she couldn't have the job because she told them that she may have to leave anytime or could be unavailable some days if one of her kids were to get sick. I don't see how some places have no sympathy for employees, when they more than likely have kids as well that sometimes need be taken care of.

The problem having risen, we still have done nothing. There need to be more women role models that go out and make their mark in the workplace, so that women aren't so easily discouraged and intimidated to start climbing up the career ladder.

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In a recent article "Will Boston succeed in closing the gender wage gap" by Mary Kozelka from NBC News she talks about the struggles that women have in the workplace, and how wages are still far from being fair for women compared to men. Kozelka's purpose clearly comes off as being quite descriptive because she feels as if this is an very important topic that you should know your facts on.

As Kozelka states "Right now, however, women in the U.S. earn 77 cents for every dollar men make" This gives one more of a bigger picture of how unequal things are in today's society, men are bringing in another whole 23 cents over women that are perfectly capable of doing the same job, just because of gender differences.

Also stated in the article "“Women in Boston make up more than half the population and half the workforce … They are central to families. They are central to the communities. They're central to business,” Okay, sure women get good recognition and publicity but it's about time that they start getting to benefit from it by being able to make just as much as males since they are so "central" to businesses. 

One of Kozelka's bigger points "According to the compact, roadblocks such as inflexible work hours, lack of female role models -- and perhaps the most pervasive obstruction --unconscious bias, make it difficult to grow and remain in the workplace as a female employee." Just because for say a group of women or past employees that a company has had pretty well match up to some of this unconscious bias does not mean that all of the female gender should have to suffer because of the way of a select few females present themselves. 

This reminds me of a time back at my previous employer where me and one of my best friends that happens to be of the female gender worked at. We both had been working there for the same amount of time, same position, and same days. Payday came around. Walking to the break room, we compared paychecks. There it was clear as day, even though it was just a couple of cents more, she was still making less than me just for the simple fact of her gender. Everything else about our job was exactly the same, so this was clearly the culprit.

Not every female needs a male figure, human being of the male gender,  to take care of them, and are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves just fine. But how can one do this when they still seem to be coming in second in the workplace with men being the first and making more. The problem having risen, we still have done nothing. Maybe one day our society will realize how unfair this can be to some and just how it affects the women that do work their butts off for a living everyday.