Post 4: Analysis of A second Scholarly Source
http://www.aabri.com/manuscripts/08056.pdf
With this second scholarly source, two authors go into detail about the problems that women face in the workplace when trying to expand their professional career. The article mentions ideas such as gender stereotyping, role conflict, opposing leadership, and communication styles. These authors mention gender stereotyping and say that it is inevitable and must be dealt with. With leadership styles, women are more people oriented and men are more task-oriented. For role conflict, it was said that women who face issues dealing with home life and work life need more support or a flexible schedule to help maintain balance.
Near the middle of the article, the authors mention how women should stand up and be courageous when in the workplace, but displaying that kind of behavior can come off as “too aggressive”. With being courageous, women must be accountable for their actions, and show what they bring to the table. That is what makes them courageous. They also mention how childcare should be addressed and there should be some more fine tuned policy of leave time for workers.
Lastly, they talk about mentoring programs to help women achieve advancement in the workplace. When these women come out of college and begin their career, that is the perfect time for them to mentored. It helps women to be more sociable and make their way through the work world.
From what I read, I can say that I agree with some of what they were talking about. Yes, there should be opportunity for women to be mentored to help advance their career, but not because they are solely women. Men can have the same opportunity, but the difference is, higher up employees can choose who they want to mentor and most of the time they pick a male employee. What I don’t agree with was that fact that women are going to have gender stereotyping in the workplace and they just have to deal with it. So just accept the fact that others are going to judge you for being a women and that can forever hold you back from succeeding in your career? No Thanks. You can have to fight that stereotyping, that oppression. If you just accept it, you just supporting the imbalance between the males and females in the workplace. I also don’t agree with the fact that because men and women have different leadership or communication styles suddenly that is a problem. If anything, that is the opportunity to prove that change is better than doing things the same way. Because of the fact that men dominated the workforce in the beginning and women have been fighting their way into it, it’s hard to change what has already been done. It was said that men communicate differently, or lead differently but that doesn’t make it a bad thing. Women use their skills and what they know to show higher rank employees that their way works. Because their skills are different, it makes employers see them as a risk. Taking a risk can have a high price, and when choosing new leaders, employers like to keep it safe and be assured that nothing bad will happen with their choice. Hence why men are more likely to be picked for promotion than men.













