Are Women Taking Our Jobs?

Are Women Taking Our Jobs?

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A specter is haunting men's prospects in workforces around the world. A new study of Fortune 500 companies, performed by Catalyst (a research firm that tracks the lives and performance of corporate women), revealed that companies with the highest representation of senior women had a 35% higher return on equity and a 34% higher return to shareholders than companies with the fewest women near the top. Why?

Long considered the breadwinners of the household, men are finding themselves on the outside looking in. Shifting social paradigms have radically transformed the balance of power between men and women in society at large as well as in specific households.

feminization of the faculty

At present time, females outnumber men in most fields in school. While traditional male bastions such as engineering and computer science remain male-centric, other key sectors like business, law, medicine, and many others are seeing women pop up in droves, slowly but surely surpassing men in enrollment. The long-term effect of such a trend is simply that the next generation will see a larger number of women in key industries, often times outnumbering their male counterparts.

survival of the fittest

In itself, this is a great trend; women earning money, being independent and providing their equal share is a good thing. As a wise man once said, the feminist movement first and foremost liberated men. The problem, if one can call it that, is that men will eventually find themselves below women in the social stratosphere, and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

men are stubborn

Yes this is a generalization, but stereotypes exist for a reason. While women tend to be rigid in some settings, these are usually restricted to personal ones. In professional settings, it is women, and not men, who tend to be more open-minded and less apprehensive about trying new things.

Men, for one reason or another, are usually set in their ways and will not flinch one bit from their vision. Furthermore, when men fail to land an interview or a job, the tendency is to bolt from the traditional work setting and do their own thing. When right, this can translate into great things, when wrong, it means lining up at the unemployment line.

Women, on the other hand, are willing to start at the bottom and work their way up the corporate ladder until they are satisfied with their work, title and pay.

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