Dissert anglais

« Those who challenge the existence of the glass ceiling claim that women themselves are to be held responsible for the situation because they focus more on family than on career and because they lack ambition.

what do you think about it? In your opinion, why do so few women hold top position? The question is not why so few women hold top position, the question is, is our society is actually able to open its doors to women? Women have always been dominated by men.

Nowadays, to assert themselves, women try to imitate working men.

The work seems to be the best way for women to ensure their independence, mainly financial. So whose fault is it? Women who do not have enough ambition, education which usually want a woman to be erased or do we really live in a men's world? Historically, women have begun to assert themselves in the working world in the forties, thanks to the industry of war which forced women to work in factories whereas men were at war. Even if the number of women accessing leadership position is increasing, there are still limits which slow down the process of feminization of work. The world of business is one of the sectors discriminatory where the first slogan of companies is the concept of competitiveness and profitability that's why companies have difficulty to hire women and especially women who have a maternity project because it can be estimate as a danger for the company because they distract their professional project for the benefit of their personal life because for example because of mood changes related to pregnancy.

So it seems that for a woman conciliating career and family life is difficult because the business requires making sacrifices. Also, women sometimes set limits on themselves.

They are aware of the difficulty to impose themselves so for fear of failure, some women restrict their desires and their ambitions.

Finally, that is difficult to find a guilty because everybody is responsible and even if mentalities evolve there is still work to reach a full equality between women and men in the working world. 301 words. »