After watching the TED talk talking about the identity of female and male in the society, I gradually find out that girls are cultivated to be perfect and male are cultivated to be brace in their young age. This mode of education in some way determines the huge ratio gender difference in the company. According to 2010 report, female CEO only takes up 4% among all the CEO in fortune 500 company and Female top executives only takes 16%. The astounding data leads to people’s thinking why the big gap occurs. There is no evidence to showcase that female are less briliant than male. In contrast, some evidence indicates that female owns logical thinking, comprehensive thinking and other special talents.
We can not doubt one’s talent only based on their gender but need to make a judgement based on different perspectives. According to the report, there are more female employees in 500 fortune company than male but less CEO and senior position in a company. Girls are afraid of making mistakes, but we should not encourage that.
Moreover, some people not only are skeptical towards female’s ability, they keep doubting on the availability and flexibility of female who perhaps are willing to sacrifice themselves to family and children. Female may pregnant, educate children and do housework so they are considered to put their attention on family instead of work. However, this stereotype need to be eliminated because none of the gender should be defined to have a specific duty on doing something. Every individual have right to decide their life balance and nothing can compress them on pursuing dream.Someone may has traditional opinion that female are supposed to put their main focus on family so they will not have enough time on pursuing promotion, and high wages. It can be a injustice towad human because it limits the potential of woman and compresses their right for chasing dream.
Gender balance and gender equality should be emphasized in the future, no matter in the workplace, the public facility and other human right. Women should not be underestimated. Every individual or human should own the characteristics like being brave, being perfect, but not categorized by gender.
I definitely agree that someone’s talent or competence should not be based on their gender. I feel like a lot of women are fighting this stereotype and while I think it has gotten better over the last decade, I still think a lot more needs to be done. We see gender inequality in many ways in our society unfortunately and gender discrimination can also look like many different things. The statistics about female CEOs are not surprising to me. A lot of those industries can be cut-throat and unfortunately there are a lot of careers where gender biases exist. I think it’s really important to note that not every female wants to just have a family and focus 24/7 on that. I also believe a lot of employers specifically underestimate women if they know that they have a family etc. It should be more about merit and what an individual could bring to a company, and not their gender.