User:Shannonbyouk/sandbox

Many people are aware of the fact that men generally get the top positions in the business world, but don’t understand the reasoning behind it. According to the Pew Research Center, after extensive research, the key barrier for why women either aren’t advancing in their careers or aren’t being viewed as competitors for top positions in companies is because there are “many interruptions related to motherhood that may make it harder for women”. Forbes provides scenarios that even if women have full time jobs, they are still the one responsible for any family dilemmas rather than men. Men during the 1960’s, as David White implements in his study, “being the sole provider for the family gave men a significant amount of power in their homes and contributed to feelings of male superiority”. Economics research states that culture can “transmit values and norms that last for centuries and even millennia” and they have “nothing to substantiate them except handed-down beliefs”. Based off of this research, women most likely aren’t advancing in top positions in businesses because of the past societal norms that are still rooted in our society today about gender equality.