"Our main objective now is to have more women investors because that will have a trickle-down effect. There are a lot of smart businesswomen out there." According to the Center of Women's Business Research, as of 2006, there were an estimated 7.7 million majority women-owned companies, accounting for 29.7% of all businesses in the U.S. Those companies generate $1.1 trillion in annual sales and employ 7.2 million people nationwide. Yet a separate study conducted by venture capital industry tracker VentureSource showed that only 4.3% of venture-backed companies are led by women, down from 7.5% in 2002. Women-led angel groups are trying to improve that statistic.
http://www.blackenterprise.com/small-business/entrepreneurs-conference-how-janice-bryant-howroyd-built-a-billion-dollar-business/ 4) Janice Bryant Howroyd, Chairman and CEO of the ACT-1 Group, to be Honored Along With Six Others as One of LA's Most Influential Business Leaders By the National Association of Women Business Owners - Los Angeles NAWBO-LA. Women's Health Weekly 19 Mar. 2009: 489. General OneFile. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA196493883&v=2.1&u=lirn11911&it=r&p=ITOF&sw=w&asid=c0f2337a63a844499b4df692abac3b78 5) Minority Business News.
The changes were apparent as a result of evacuation, rationing, women workers and the Beveridge Report. In the 1930’s, before the Second World War, most women were expected to stay at home while their husbands worked to look after the children. However, when war broke out and the men had to go and fight, the women had to do the men’s previous jobs. During the Second World War the number of women workers increased by 50% to almost 7 million. Some joined the Land Army and others worked in the factories producing weapons.
Women’s Roles Throughout the history of the United States, women have held many different roles in social, political and economic classes. Before the Civil War, a woman had a traditional role in the home, working as a housewife. The fight for equal and voting rights started but was unfortunately not continued until after the war. With new technology and industrial advances, women’s roles in the work force increased immensely and obtained many new opportunities. Although before the Civil War, women rarely took a part in society, the war significantly changed women’s roles in many ways.
The role of women before war: Upper-class women did not work before the war and few worked after it. Working-class women, on the other hand, had to work to help keep their families. They worked before the war mostly in factories and in domestic services as maids. As many as 11% of all women worked as domestic servants before the war. The war gave them the chance to work in a greater variety of jobs but most of these new jobs were lost at the end of the war.
History and the Challenges Women Face A number of events have occurred over the last twenty-five years or so that have resulted in the rise of the female in the working world. Some factors that can contribute to women going to business school and earning degrees are the need for a second income. Typically, throughout history men have been the breadwinners in a family unit. Women in the past typically did more of the upkeep of the home and did not bring in an additional income. When they did bring an income, it was usually in some lesser complimentary role to
High income careers, management careers, political careers and engineering carriers are considered just for men. Home chores are clearly for women. It’s not expected from a man to do jobs like cooking, cleaning the house , care child in home or babysitting jobs although this pattern have been changed a little in recent years due to social and economic changes. Although based on traditional gender roles some fields like nursing are highly feminine this pattern not only change but also this change effects on other fields like gender roles in work area. The number of highly educated women in management, engineering, journalism and social science increased in recent years and this change are changing all former social structure related to gender roles.
While I do agree that women have come a long way from the discrimination and problems they faced in the last century when it comes to the work place, I still believe that gender discrimination still exists. Some would disagree with me quoting facts and statistics that there are many women that have broken through to climb up the corporate ladder and even some have reached high and made it into the Fortune 500 club by having salaries and leading companies that help them earn millions of dollars each year. They may also argue that we have made great strides in self-made millionaires by women owning their own businesses and developing products that other companies will produce for them. One of the last arguments that they also make is that we now have several laws in this country that is supposed to actually prohibit gender discrimination. This is for companies to have equal opportunities for men and women.
Then I notified that these traditional roles were common in many countries around the world. For instance the women in most of the countries around the world years ago women stayed at home, take care of kids and do the home chores that meant that women were not allowed to work. On the other hand men were the responsible to work and earn money for their families. However, this thinking has changed somewhat or slightly through the years. Nowadays both sex’s women and men have more varied roles.
In most of the countries around the world years ago women had to stay at home, take care of kids and do the home chores (women were not allowed to work); while men were supposed to be working and earning money for the family, but this thinking have changed through the years. Nowadays women and men have more varied roles. In my country (Dominican Republic) the traditional roles of women are: to work, and when I say work it means women are able to work in areas that before were considered only for men like engineering, medicine, law, and political sciences. All this means that women have been inserted more in the workplace, a clear example of this is that the vice presidency of the Dominican Republic is occupied by a woman. Women also take care of children, do the home chores, do the cooking, drive a car, and much more.