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In Leadership, i would like to give a situation about a woman who works as a CEO in a company. If the woman is a strict one, people will say that she don't have a heart of a true woman, evil witch, emotionless, iron lady and many more. But, when the woman are the other way around, they said that the woman are being too emotional and that she are not suitable to be a boss. See. It is never a win-win situation if women are being emotion or emotionless of being a leader. In fact, other people will add on that women are not born to be leaders and if that happens, the organization will face lots of problems. As stated in Forbes, “A woman who shows no emotion and keeps it hyper-professional is icy and unfeminine. For many women, it can be a no-win situation.” (Goudreau, 2011). For me, it is not the gender that influencing leadership. Anyone can be a leader as long as the person is capable enough to have the responsible. Being emotion or emotionless is a choice even for a man as a leader. This stereotyping of women are not born to be leaders are just people being gender biased.
Lets look at another aspect which is in education. Nowadays, we can see that the population of women dominated men in learning institution. According to Meyer (2014), 33% of women in America graduated and earn their college degree way more than men. Even so, the chances of women to pursue in their studies in higher education have always been monopolized. This is because, some institution are sponsoring in education for men way more than for women. The chances for a man to get scholarship are way greater than for a woman even though the woman has a degree compared to the man. Furthermore, even in Malaysia, for students who wanted to pursue in their studies, male students will be given more chances to enter the school rather than female students as the administer wanted more male students to fill in the quota. After a woman has a degree, masters or even PhD, that doesn't mean that they could get higher wages than man. Why? "Even when men and women have similar levels of education, men end up earning more over time." (Bidwell, 2014). Here again I showed you that the world is being gender biased.
Last but not least, stereotyping towards woman for merely being themselves. Seems not legit isn't it? Why I come out of this statement because, in Malaysia, women are considered as a vice, a helper, the number two and so on. People's mind set is that woman's place is meant to be in the kitchen, the house keeper, the caretaker of her children when she got married. Even though they have high education background, in the end even some of them will end as a housewife. In today's modern days that kind of mindset should be tarnished as woman in modern days today are capable more than just sitting around waiting for their husband to come home. Women in today's world also the one who could contribute not only to their own family especially in home economy but also to the world if only the society can accept it more thoroughly.
In conclusion, women shouldn't be behind the wheel as they are more capable enough even to stand and live on their own.
reference list:
1. Goudreau, J. (2011, October 4). The 10 Worst Stereotypes About Powerful Women. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2011/10/24/worst-stereotypes-powerful-women-christine-lagarde-hillary-clinton/
2. Meyer, A. (2014, March 31). Women Now 33% More Likely Than Men to Earn College Degrees. cnsnews.com. Retrieved from http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/women-now-33-more-likely-men-earn-college-degrees
3. Bidwell, A. (2014, October 31). Women More Likely to Graduate College, but Still Earn Less Than Men. U.S.News. Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/10/31/women-more-likely-to-graduate-college-but-still-earn-less-than-men
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