Women and Flexibility in the Workplace

Women and Flexibility in the Workplace

Introduction

We have noticed that, women have not been given importance in any field especially in the workforce. The history has shown that, there was no major role of women in any professional competencies and, this was because women had not given appropriate chances to prove their leaderships. Women always played a secondary role in the society and, women had no dominance in the society. The only role found for women in the past, was to up raise the children and, cook for husband. Women wanted to stand on their own feet and, their desires had made them to take decisions to join men in the work force. Through that day of joining workforce with men, women are still trying to take independent steps and, show their leadership skills but, in many cases they are not appreciated from top management because of several reasons.

Discussion

Kathleen Christensen believed that, the problems which were presented in the past with women, is still exist today because, no one is giving attention to resolve these issues. Because of these issues, families are not supporting their female children in order to get proper early education and, in rural areas, most of the females remain illiterate. When any female get a chance to join a workforce with men, then she has to face certain challenges in the workforce (A.S.et. a, 2002). American parents have been trying to meet the demands of their family and children.

According to Kathleen Christensen, we don't need further studies to know the problems of women in the social and structure aspects because, we have observed from our daily life experience (A.S.et. a, 2002). Everybody thinks that, this is not his problem and, do not want to solve the problem. All individuals are looking problems as the private problems and, trying to solve each problem individually. In case, if any individual try to solve any problem then, in the end he or she feels exhaust because, any individual can't fight alone and, there should be a combined effort. Workplace flexibility can bring the large change by giving control over when and where works get done (A.S.et. a, 2002).

There may be four barriers in this regard and, these barriers should be removed step by step. The first major barrier is “it's me” because, individuals think that, they are having private problems and, this is their own headache. If there may be an addition of several thousand private problems then, it will combined to become a single issues and, voices may be raised in order to solve these issues. Workplace flexibility is becoming a serious issue in the major organizations.

Kathleen Christensen's always treated the workforce flexibility as the central issue and, this is true because, flexibility is the combined product of several social and structural changes. The American lifestyle has gone through several changes in the previous thirty years (Christensen & Schneider, 2010). It has been reported; that thousands of mothers had entered into ...