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Human Resources & Youth

Today’s Business Environment & Tomorrow’s Women

Before discussing the current state of affairs between women and men in the workplace, it is necessary to understand what women expect when it comes to equality. One of the biggest problems in the workplace is that the women’s movement has gained so much progress in the past two decades that old forms and rhetoric no longer are effective in the workplace, nor do they necessarily encompass the issues of concern to tomorrow’s generation of female workers. This is a natural historical progression witnessed in any civil rights movement. When movements first begin, their rhetoric is more angry and violent, more focused on immediate needs, and less compatible to integration with social norms than they are once they have won some of their objectives. Women vote and work outside the home today in record numbers. However, the movement that propelled them to their present status has become ideologically incomplete and nearly obsolete for many of today’s young women. This phenomena can be witnessed by a Time/CNN survey that asked women about their beliefs regarding the women’s movement, a survey whose results show any future “movement” will have a new shape and contour than the one of the past twenty years:

[Of]…1,000 women across the country…77% think the women’s movement has made life better. Only 8% think it has made things worse. Ninety-four percent said the movement has helped women become more independent; 82% said it was still improving the lives of American women. Why, then, do so few – 33% - identify themselves as ‘feminists’? Why did 76% of those polled say they pay ‘not very much’ or ‘no’ attention to the women’s movement? In many ways, feminism is a victim of its own resounding achievements. Its triumphs – in getting women into the workplace, in elevating their status in society and in shattering the ‘feminine mystique’ that d...

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