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Essay / Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement - 1175
Sheryl Sandberg poses a puzzling dilemma when she proclaims that "women don't make it to the top in any profession, anywhere in the world," especially that women earn about 57% of undergraduate and civil rights salaries. 60% of all master's degrees. A rational individual would conclude that an overall increase in the number of educated women between 1960 and 2010 would result in more female leaders in the 20th century, but the data is not as promising as one might hope: only 9 female leaders Out of 190 states are women and only 15-16% of the corporate sector are women. Sandberg says something along the college-to-career journey continues to encourage women to “drop out” or “opt out” of the workforce. Why aren't women taking action? Since the first wave of feminism and the civil rights movement, women have made political and economic progress: the Western world is now supposed to value women who invest in their careers. Yet entrenched gender stereotypes and values maintain a patriarchal gender hierarchy that systematically excludes women from boardrooms and lower-paying, lower-level jobs. Stubborn values have kept generations of women from rising to the top, but Sandberg says modern women can create a "new normal" through a more equitable division of labor that changes the cost and benefit structure of marriage and marriage. career for men and women. This modern divide (or “new normal”) is changing traditional gender expectations and encouraging women to “lean into” their careers rather than conforming to stereotypical or systematic biases – or worse, falling victim to “ambition” gap. I argue that women's systematic exposure to stereotype threat has resulted in a "self-fulfilling prophecy" that has confined women to traditional roles and kept them away from the middle of paper... women Modern people (and men) face stereotypes and structural prejudices. To counter these biases, women can and should manage or lead in ways that strike an appropriate balance between their two halves: mother and leader. The combination of maternal and leadership instincts could potentially generate unforeseen benefits that would improve the modern workplace. Works Cited Clayton-Dye, Amanda. “The political economy of gender.” Lectures at the University of Washington, Seattle, May 1, 2014. Pamela Paxton and Melanie M. Hughes. Women, politics and power: a global perspective. 2nd edition. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2014. Sandberg, Sheryl. Lean on: women, work and the desire to lead. New York: Random House, 2013. Sandberg, Sheryl. “Why we have too few women leaders. » TEDWomen conferences. Dec. 2010. .