Way to the boardroom 作文

Way to the boardroom 作文

Theway to the boardroomWith the development of the economy, more and more skillful and creative elites are needed in the society. Women, as apart of this group, have been playing a more and more important role in all thedaily works. It seems doubtless that women should weight a large part in this championgroup, however, people found that only 11% of Fortune 500 senior executiveswomen. 《Nemko, 730》 It seems like there is an invisible barrier between thefemale employees and the boardroom. It’s called the glass ceiling. In my pointof view, the answer to this question is mainly base on the nature.Why would it be preferred to promote amale? Well, the first reason is really simple: Efficiency. Although females arealso hard workers, they are naturally led to care more about their families.Louann Brizendine, as a neuropsychiatrist who studies brain gender differences,claimed that”… women in childbearing years undergo changes that intensify theirfocus on the viability of offspring. It’s a passing phenomenon, but ill-timesfor those with career ambitions” 《Brizendine, 36》. This is reasonable sincewomen are often unconsciously taught to take care of their families fromchildhood, through play house or some other games. Because of the nature, manywomen choose to accept part-time work or to quit the competition of promotionin efforts to balance the career and their families.Another point is about the stability.While the males become more rational and manful during their education, femalesare rather fickle and sensitive, this sometimes trouble the business a lot. InSusan M. Kochanowski’s words, “…women’s leadership styles to be moreinteractive and transformational whereas men’s style has been identified asmore directive. “《Kochanowski, 721》.Additionally, the bosses may hesitatewhether their female workers are trustworthy and reliable enough or not, whilehundreds of thousands of females also hesitate whether they should engage forthe shiny boardroom or not. In this case, many females gave up trying. From theemployees’ view, a research by Frank Newport and Joy Wike shows that 29% of themale workers prefer a male manager and 18% prefer a female while 40% of thefemales prefer a male manager and 27% prefer a female. This is a quiteconclusive result because it shows that even women themselves prefer maleleaders, which means “Yes, both of us think it’s better to have a male leader”。Although this theory has no theoretic support, this mind as a stereotype hasbeen planted deeply in everyone’s’ heart that leaders should be males.Anotherpoint is people always price being strict as “good” only when it’s a man, butwhen it’s a woman, people might just think “she’s a bitch”。 It’s a natural problemthat in common sense women always have to be warm and nice to everyone insteadof being strict, or even ambitious. Any man-like behaviors are considered to bea “bitch”。 In the article written by Jessica Bennett, Jesse Ellison and SarahBall, this phenomenon is clearly stated “Young women hold themselves back,saying, ‘I shouldn’t say this, ask for this, do this-it will make me unlikable,a bitch, or an outcast. ‘”《Bennett, Ellison, and Ball, 727》. Due to the fearof being negatively criticized, females chose to fall back and act like what“they should be like”。 Although it sounds really sad, it is actually acceptablebecause no matter males or females would expect their female leaders havemotherhood emotion and can provide a rather relaxing working environment, eventhough people know that the work is real, when they finally face such a womanwho always acts like a man it’s doubtless reasonable for them to feeluncomfortable. This is the deadliest point why the glass ceiling exists.Some people may argue that there are manyoutstanding female elites in the society, and they are doing pretty good job.But just calm down and think, if these minority of the women elites canrepresent the situation of the whole female group, what about the male elites? What’smore, those who are now considered to be the “elites”， did they work just likethe male workers or much more hardworking? Or did they ever suffered from theinvisible barrier between them and the boardroom? Yes it’s possible for women tostep into the boardroom and start a new life, but freedom is not free. For me,I don’t need to worry about marriage, pregnancy and the following babysittingstuffs. But for women, they do, especially for those who prefer breast feeding.Although it’s legal to ask for a maternity leave, women need times of energyand work to catch up with the same work male workers did. Thus, it’s really notwise to ignore the mission of vitalization and having a warm family.In conclusion, there is actually no glass ceilingat all, it’s just about the nature and gender differences. Women, as a freegroup of humanity, absolutely can choose their own way of living and working.But it cost a lot for them to work as hard as men, which made more women choseto accept a supporting position in their career and make it a balance.Workscited1: Nemko, Marty.“The real reason so few women are in the boardroom” Practical Argument: A Textand Anthology. Ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 20112: Brizendine, Louann. “One Reason Women Don’t MakeIt to the C-Suite.” Harvard Business Review 86, no.6 《2008》3: Susan M. Kochanowski. “Women inleadership:Persistent problems or progress?” Practical Argument: A Text andAnthology. Ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 20114: Frank Newport, Joy Wike,” Americans Still Prefer a Male Boss” Gallupeconomy, Gallup economy, Nov.11.2013, Web. May.28.2014,5: Bennett, Jessica.Ellison, Jesse. Ball, Sarah. “Are we there yet?” Practical Argument: A Text andAnthology. Ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011