We can look at the improvements in technology as a factor resulting into the increase of women in the labor force. In lectures we go into depth how railroads and manufacturing industries opened up more job opportunities for the Canadian population. Another area where women defining their position in the business world come into importance is after the great depression and World War 1. In order to revive the economy, women were given greater roles which included positioning themselves into the labor force, which at the time was male, dominated. In class we had focused on the great depression and how Canada was affected in many different ways.
"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.
Middle-class women began to find job as typists, clerks, and telephone operators among others. All of this in turn finally helped more middle and upper class women graduate from college, and find higher up more succesful jobs. Although, at the
New forms of public life created by women - such as having an education, to fight for their equality of opportunity to get a career, fighting for their rights and changing their role from domesticity to public suffragists- reinforced their place in society. Women had many dramatic changes throughout the years dealing with their view as a woman, politics, labor force and popular culture. In the present, American women continued live in regard to work, family, sexuality, and political changes. A. Sara M. Evans is a distinguished scholar and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota where she taught women's history since 1976. She studied women and gender studies as it can be seen by reading her book because of the knowledge she transmits about women’s history and all the stages women went through decades ago.
Unions have had to change and evolve to combat the decline in membership and the effectiveness of the union itself. Although the membership of women has increased, their activity within the union has been low. Perhaps this is because women are defined by their sex and how they are socialized as they grow from child to adult; women are seen as passive lacking leadership qualities and confidence. This may be especially true in male dominated trade unions. Although change has come about for women in their struggles in the union movement, it is clear that there is still much to be done.
CEO of Sara Lee Brenda C. Barnes “I set a high bar for myself and others, and I think I help people get over that bar. That’s my job” (USA today). Upon being hired by Sara Lee in July 2004 as president and then promoted to CEO a year later, she became one of eight women to head a Fortune 500 company. Later she would rank as number 29 in Forbes list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2009. Brenda Barnes has led the way for women in corporate America.
So long as one woman wanted to vote, the legislature could not pass a law prohibiting all women from voting. The right of one woman to vote would trump all the power of the people or the legislature to take that right away. All of these obstacles that they went through were significant because it is past heroes like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns that helped women gain so many of the rights and the freedoms that we have today. One of the first conflicts of the Iron Jawed Angels was women’s suffrage parade. The parade was the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in Washington D.C.
The fact that she was a woman affected her a lot. Middle Eastern societies treat women very much different in comparison to the American society. Ellen wanted to become one of the top executives at the company, but this was almost impossible due to the fact that she was a woman. Moore lived many experiences where employees didn’t accept what her decisions where and even got segregated from male groups. After two years, Ellen was asked by the General Manager to join the operations area on one of two managerial positions that were available.
For many years, women in the United States had no voting rights which denied them the opportunity to try their hand in politics. It was not until the early 20th century when women in the United Stated were given the right to vote. Despite this, their political roles in the country have remained limited. This is just an iceberg when compared to gender based discrimination that have encroached all aspects of the society. There is no doubt that there has been a lot of improvement in the recent past where women have been treated more equally increasing their participation in the social and political life, but more need to be done to reduce the level biasness against women in the society (Healey,
In some cases, women are now considered equal to men instead of being someone that can be ruled over or given orders to, they are making decision and their opinions and suggestions are being taken into account. Women are climbing the ladder of success at a very high speed but this growth is not being appreciated enough by the media, women are underrepresented in the news (Smith, Analysis of Harmful Representations of Women in the Media, 2011). This observation led me to my research question. 2.2 Research Proposal Why are women in the media, television and film industry underrepresented