Advancement of Women
There are barriers which inhibit women from progressing in their workplaces. Some of barriers include the positions held by women in workplaces where most of them hold positions in informal sectors of the financial systems where advancing opportunities are low. The ones employed in large firms are mostly positioned at the lower organizational hierarchies with also low promotion opportunities.
Many women are restricted to access of education at first-rate thus being restricted in job opportunities. Women are always channeled into less complex working positions thus low wages.
Social norms and power in organizations exhibit invisible foundations that determine organization structures keeping women from advancing. Maternal responsibilities where women are involved in childbearing and rearing also act as a barrier to their advancement in workplaces in relation to their little time concentration at work.
Men at Home as a Caretaker
Men are also primary caretakers at home even though they are faced with barriers which prevent them from carrying out this responsibility. These barriers include high demand in their workplaces as compared to that of women and societal barriers.
Society barriers and traditional masculine customs act as barriers where men are not supposed to be primary caretakers to their children instead they are generally supposed to support them financially.
At workplaces there are many rules governing parental leave being stricter to males than in women. The theories that we have studied in class relate with these biases that inhibit women in their advancement at workplaces at the same time barriers preventing men from working at home.