Written by By Stephanie Diana Eubank
With March being Women’s History Month, we have to remember the long-standing fights women have had to endure that have gotten us here today. From suffragettes to women demanding to wear pants in the workplace and moving towards more education and a seat at the boardroom table, women have come a long way. And yet, they have not come far enough.
As women, we still take on a large part of the risks when having children, and this includes workplace discrimination. There are so many companies under fire for firing women and besmirching them to get them to quit when a woman announces her pregnancy. Unfortunately, this stems from old-school myths.
The myth is that women are less devoted to their jobs when they have kids. Numerous studies on this and data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics have been disproven for decades. With 75% of all care taking in this country that is unpaid being done by women we need to make sure that the business world makes room for women to participate and afford to care for their loved ones. This makes remote work a great pro-women business culture tool. When we understand women’s struggles in the workplace, even when working hard to gain advanced degrees and skills, we make a more inclusive and profitable workplace.
Reddit is a great market research tool, but it has also become a mirror for the Business World on toxic leadership and business practices. We need to remember some things women are still dealing with:
- Less likely to be promoted than their male counterparts.
- Less likely to find mentors willing to help guide them through their careers.
- Making less money even with higher degrees.
- And more likely to be pushed out of a job when announcing a pregnancy or other family changes than their male counterparts.
- Being socially judged if one works and is a mother.
- The statistical likeliness to be sexually harassed than male counterparts.
Once we understand these constant issues that are still prevailing in the business world, we will better understand how remote work is an organizational culture tool to increase diversity and inclusion and make an organization pro-women.
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