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Gender Discrimination

This paper will discuss the problems which working women face as a result of gender discrimination. This paper will also focus on the various aspects of gender discrimination at the highest levels of corporate management as well as within certain professions. As this paper will show, in spite of the progress made by the women's movement in recent decades, gender discrimination remains a serious problem in the United States for most women who are employed in professional capacities.

Women have attended professional and graduate schools in increasingly large numbers over the past two decades. The percentage of the student populations at these schools represented by women now roughly equals that of the population at large in this country. Similarly, the percentage of entry level positions held by women in business also comes close to that of women in the population of the United States. However, these percentages drop as higher level positions are examined. Women still do not comprise a very significant percentage of the higher level managers in American business.

Many observers now assert that there is a "glass ceiling" above the heads of women (and racial minorities) who are employed in professional capacities in America. Moreover, in spite of the gains achieved by women in the business world in the past two decades, and the increasing number of females with postgraduate degrees, corporate America is largely governed by a white, male hierarchy. While certain women--notably England's Margaret Thatcher--have attained high-profile positions in business and government in the Western world, the overwhelming majority of high level positions in business and government are held by members of the same group that has always held these positions: white men. Thus, something is preventing women from reaching the higher level of management and governmental positions. In the following paragraphs, the issue of gender discrimination in ...

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