How Being a Woman Can Impact Your Career Success

The only way that being a woman can impact your career success is when the traditional males are predominantly in control of a company or other organizations where it is believed that women aren’t as good as men. This causes harm to women through the following ways:

1. They are an easier target for sexual harassment.
2. They reach a glass ceiling where promotional opportunities may not allow them to advance to higher responsibilities.
3. They are paid much less than a man performing the same job.
4. They are more likely to be defamed or snipped by harsh words of the traditional males in the workplace even if she is intelligent, hardworking, and reliable.

These are just a few of the ways that being a woman can impact your career success; however, these things are slowly changing due to the “protected class” laws that have come about due to discrimination against women and other minorities that hinder their ability to more successful in their chosen career field. Because in our system, the dominant perception is male minded. Our system is designed to fight, to waste, to dominate, to have success under any circumstances.This isn’t a female perception. Mother earth (Gaia) has no representative in our system…look around. But this will change as a more resource (energy, human resources, environment) saving strategy is becoming calculable better. But its late.

It’s an inescapable fact that if a woman wants to be an involved mother - cooking meals, reading to the kids and tucking them in at night, helping in the classroom and with homework, attending sporting events and plays and such…that means less time for the career. No way around it. There are only 24 hours in a day. So would I be ruling the world right now if I had remained childless and unmarried? Possibly. Women can’t have it all. This is a cruel lie that’s been told by feminists, and it’s done more harm than good. It’s true women can have fulfilling careers and be financially independent, but to believe you can “have it all”…that means we must be Super Woman. That we can put in ten hours at work, cook a four-course meal for dinner, do two loads of laundry, and bake cupcakes for the school party before making passionate love to our husband and getting eight hours of blissfully restful sleep. That’s just not reality.

But the wonderful thing about feminism is that it has given us a choice, and whatever choice we make is valid. We don’t have to have kids. We don’t have to work outside the home. We can hire a maid, or mop our own floors. We should be grateful for those choices.

Contributors:  Joseph E. Sweeney

                         Igor Plahuta

                         Andrea Claus Ring