Gender Inequality

1. What gender inequalities still exist today?

In today's working industry, many fields still do have gender inequalities happening whereby people tend to have gender bias towards certain job or services. For example, i personally have more confident in having a male hair stylist rather than a female hair stylist. This is somehow because i do have the perception that a male hair stylist is much more professional than the female hair stylist and he could give me a better hair cut than she could. In another way, there are many people who feel more comfortable in receiving services from a male instead of a female in any sorts of field. Truth is, what we can observe now is that any jobs could employ a male as worker, for instance we have male nurses, but not any kinds of job could hire female as worker. For example, chances for female to be a pilot is very low and so far there's only one female pilot in the world. Therefore, though we're currently in a very advanced modern era, however there is still the existence of gender inequalities around us. It might not be as obvious as the past, but it does have a certain level of impact towards our society.

2. What is a glass ceiling? How can individuals break through the glass ceiling?

A glass ceiling is an invisible barrier which involves a lot in human's daily life. Glass ceiling sets a limitation for individuals involving their work task and level. It prevents individuals to achieve the goals and targets which have been set for period of time. Glass ceiling forms a different kind of pathway in which two individual from the same level of starting point could end up at a total different working level. For example, a man and a woman who started their job at the same time and of the same department might end up at a different post in their company because men are usually seen as more capable than women in any ways possible. Also, glass ceiling leads to different period duration of working a man and a woman can last in a particular company. Thus, individuals can break through glass ceiling by voicing out their opinion to the public whenever they do not agree with the conclusion made. Other than that, an individual could stand up for their rights in expressing themselves and also things they're unsatisfied with regarding another individual, which is particularly for women. Another way for women to break through the glass ceiling in life is to perform better than men do, as well ass excelled with greater achievement to prove that they are equally capable too.

3. Are there other forms of glass ceilings that are faced by those other than women? 

Other forms of glass ceiling that are faced other than women are the disabled individuals. Most of the time, they are treated differently especially when comes to job opportunity. Majority of the employers in the working industry will never prefer to hire a disabled person as an employee in their company because they do not see them as capable as the normal people. Often, employers would assume that these disabled people probably be having obstacles in handling their job and somehow lead to an obstruction of the company’s working progress. Even if the disabled individual has a very high level of education, yet most employers would prefer hiring a lower level education individual without any disability in them. As a result, these disabled individuals were not given a chance to prove that they are able to make a difference and stand at the same level in order to compete with the others.