According to Hartmann equal pay would be the best gift to give a working mother on this special day. If it means making a mother’s life just a slight less stressful then it also means the rise of a great generation of working women. Hartmann claims that if the government can provide a stronger pay and support for working mother’s it only benefits society more, so is it a struggle to raise the salaries of women to that of men, what discrimination or power is holding this change from happening and how can we influence a law to bring our mother’s to equality?

Anita Gabriel comments in her article “Empowering Women“, that more needs to be done to support women in the workforce and their families at home. The main idea of her article was empowering women in a financial aspect, in which could benefit the families of the working mother if she earned more and worked less. As a daughter of a working mother and father i first hand experienced the conditions of having an absent mother in which a nanny took my mothers place till the age of 13. I have grown to be an independent women with strong ethics but i do not know who or what i owe the character to, a mother who set an example of a rising class or to a nanny who was like a second mom? Now that i am older I have a clear understanding of what my mother was and has been trying to accomplish in hers and my life, the rise of women in the workforce. I look up to her not only as a model in the business world, but to how i will one day raise my children, but without the nanny aspect.  I can only hope to accomplish to raise children that will understand what i do now and what women are trying to accomplish but can this be done when pay is low and work for women is dominated by men? What sacrifice must a women make to rise in her profession and raise her family?

So how will women overcome this fear? will a majority of women learn to cope and find men that are fine with coming in second in the role of breadwinner? These concerns are real for most women already either they feel they scare men away by their success or that a man to equal them is hard to find. Maybe since the role of bread barer is coming to a halt for men and on the rise for women is this the opportunity for women to take on more roles of men, maybe even seeking out the man instead of waiting for him to find make the first move? Could this fear of our power within be a positive contributor to society or a negative one? Only time will tell.

Internationally and within our own borders there are four common barriers that are holding women back. According to Yu Dan Shi they are a,”male dominated workplaces, childcare issues, managing family commitments, and a lack of suitable development opportunities” she makes this claim in her article Difficulties for Women on the Rise. Are women to blame for their own failure to rise about men in the business setting? Childcare and family commitments are brought on by a women herself, if she choses to take on both and work then she should expect a full load. It is a women’s decision to chose family and birth over rising in the top of her business, this is why women do not dominate in the business industry of men because most women chose to take on the role of wife, mother and business women. One could make the argument that men take on the same challenge but if you look at the stats provided it will show that there is a great percentage of single men with the time to take on the challenges of a higher work position then the percentages compared to women. So why do women fight for equality in the work environment? 

By speaking up women have earned equal educational benefits, opportunities in work force, and the rise of pay compared to that of men. These reasons alone women step in and make an awareness of the gender gap in the work force. Women chose several roles and because they take on these task they either become house wives or stay in lower positions where they can manage work, family, and their own needs all at one time. If its to blame or to thank women are the main reason that there is a lack of female body in the work force.

 According to Holden Maine Sexual harassment is defined as any “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of a person’s employment, or rejection of such conduct by a person is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting that person, or conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with a person’s work performance, and or conduct creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.”

In the end of the article the women came out to admit that the only reason she came out and told the truth was because her boss who had been the one harassing her all along wouldn’t help support her new pregnancy. I don’t know if i agree with, one for three years her keeping the fact that she was being sexually harassed by her boss, and two the reason why she eventually came out with it. As a women I will push and strive to rise up in the world of men and compete in more ways then one but but never do i agree with the down grading of a women to move forward.