Blog 36

As we have gone through many changes in our country over the past few years. One thing is definitely prevalent of occurring. We prior to this past election have never seen a women run in some sort of faction of the position highest in politics in our Country. Last year’s election during the democratic primaries you had Hilary Clinton running for the seat of president against Barak Obama. This was quite a race either way as you essentially had an African American and a Women running for seat that was normally battled for between two white men. Now on the other hand you also had a female (Sarah Palin) running with John McCain as the vice president nominee. Either way both of these were very interesting cases as there had never been any sort of women running for these elected positions to begin with. Now that we have had two women run for the highest position in our political system what is so different? You would think by this occurring it opens up things to allow for women to run at any stage or work at any level in our country correct? Now granted – when looking at other extremely high positions in Corporate America you have many that do not make it all the way to the top. The analogy used for this sort of situation is called the “glass ceiling.” Many women feel that they are only able to make it to a certain level and then that they cannot go any further. Why is that? Well many factors come into play. One of the biggest reasons that I hear about is that women feel the need to still be evolved with their family a little bit more. When hitting those very high level executive positions you usually are taken away from your family quite a bit. However, I remember doing a research paper a few years back about women in Corporate America who in turn they usually do not hold high level positions until their children are grown up and out of the home. This in my opinion makes sense as they would have nothing to do after their children are grown and out of the home as women are by nature nurtures.
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