Essay : Problems of Working Women
Outline:1 Introduction:
i) Nature of job.
2. Obstacles faced by women in job.
3. Much strain over women.
4. Conclusion.
It is an open truth that working women have to face problems just by virtue of their being women. Working women here are referred to those who are in paid employment. Social attitude to the role of women lags much behind the law. This attitude which considers women fit for certain jobs and not others colours those who recruit employees.
Thus women find employment easily as nurses, doctors, teachers, the caring and nurturing sectors, secretaries or in assembling jobs — the routine submissive sectors. But even if well-qualified women engineers or managers or geologists are available, preference will be given to a male of equal qualification.
A gender bias creates an obstacle at the recruitment stage itself. When it comes to remuneration the law proclaims equality but it is seldom put into practice. The inbuilt conviction that women are capable of less work than men or less efficient than men governs this injustice of unequal salaries and wages for the same job.
The tendency of male superiority over women creates several hurdles for women at their place of work. Women on the way up the corporate ladder discover that they must be much better than their male colleagues to reach the top. Once at the top male colleagues and subordinates often expect , much greater expertise and efficiency from a woman boss than from a male boss.
Conditioned by social and psychological tradition women colleagues too don’t lend support to their own sex. Working in such conditions inevitably put much greater strain on women than what men experience. These problems tend to make women less eager to progress in their careers. Indeed many of them choose less demanding jobs for which they may even be over-qualified. A woman’s work is not merely confined to paid employment.
She has to almost shoulder the burden of household chores as well. A woman could still bear up with these problems if she had control over the money she earns. But in most families even now her salary is handed over to husband. Our society should pay heed towards the equality of women though we are living in male dominant society.
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