Stereotypes Of Women In The Workplace

Many powerful women in the nation are marginalized simply because of their gender. Narrowed minds tend to believe that many women do not have the qualities or the potential that are required to obtain certain positions that a man would hold in the work field. For many centuries, gender stereotypes have created barriers and hindered women in the workplace. Women have been treated unfairly, looked upon as objects, and discriminated against. Gender stereotyping also leads to sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. This can stagnate a women’s growth socially and psychologically, and cause her to feel like the weaker gender. Stereotypes are the reason why women are held back in business and when stereotype threats affect women in the …show more content…
Women are taken advantage of because they are professed to be the weaker sex. They are also stereotyped to being naive and vulnerable. Men use this to their benefit in the workplace because they feel a sense of gratification when they overpower a woman physically and mentally. This idea is presented in the article in the article Sexual Harrassment in the Workplace. Maggie L. Lewis deliberates the journey that women have gone through in the work field from the early 20th century till present time. “Data shows that the same relationship that existed ‘between a man’s power and his sexual access to women’ in traditional societies, exists today, in modern society” (Lewis 213). Studies have proven that men use their supremacy in the work field to inappropriately approach the opposite sex, knowing that they can get away with it. Women in the workplace often do not report the harassment that they receive because they are afraid of the outcomes. “Despite possessing the entitlement to report harassing behavior to employers through Title VII, many women today decide not to report this behavior, and instead silently suffer each day that they attend work” (Lewis 201). Most women consider all possible outcomes that can happen from them exploiting the harassment that they receive, therefore they tend to keep quiet about the assault that is being done. …show more content…
They are viewed as being the weaker sex and this can lead to them being physically harmed, financially unstable and ridiculed. These stereotypes block them from moving up in their work place in an unfair and unjust matter. Women should continue to take legal matters into their own hands to further defend their given rights and to be treated equally to the opposite sex. If women continue to stand up for themselves they will be able to prosper and eventually will not be prejudged because of their