Ted Talk: Sheryl Sandberg: Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders Final

Only 13% of the parliament consists of women and the numbers have not been increasing since 2002. They tend to feel less confident and have a lower self esteem than men. The United States had proved that there are women has less freedom when it comes to your career. ⅔ of the male workers had children, while only ⅓ of the female workers did. The world is unconsciously discriminating against women, especially in the labor market. To prove this, a professor had two two groups of students who received the exact same research paper with one single difference—the sex of the author. Results showed that more students wanted to work with the male author than the female author, for no particular reason. There is a false idea that men are considered as better working partners than women.

Women tend to make decisions to early. In most family cultures, women are the one who are mainly in charge of their child, while men are the ones to have to earn the money. Women have to face a decisions between persevering towards their career, or either quitting their current job for the sake of their children. Having to make such life changing decision at a relatively early age causes them to become too precautious, if not, passive. This is an obstruction to the women’s career development, which is another reason to why such a low percentage of women are in the working field than men. It is recommended for women to not make such decisions too early in advance. This does not mean that all women must walk their career path and put their children first, but rather decide when your job becomes stable.

In all honesty, this talk had not surprised me at all. Job inequality have been a problem for a long time and there progress to fix this is yet too slow. Men still have more social and political power than women. There is still a “glass ceiling” for women in terms of their career. Ways of improvements are being suggested, but not many has been accomplished for the previous years. Women in countries that are less developed are more vulnerable to harm, such as physical abuse and teenage pregnancy than men. I believe that public must first recognize the sexism our society faces in order to distribute the job equality between men and women.