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Post 3: Analysis of a Scholarly Source 

https://hbr.org/2013/09/women-in-the-workplace-a-research-roundup 

From this scholarly source, it can be summarized with research information regarding women in the workplace. From Harvard Business Review September 2013 issue, there were about ten research studies brought to light that talk about women in the workplace. The first survey was about assignment choice between men and women. It was shown that when given a project or large task, men are more likely to be given work that if completed properly gives higher possibility of being promoted or higher pay. With budgeting for projects, 30 percent of men were given a budget of more than 10 million dollars where only 22 percent of women were given the same budget.

Another case study was done to see why women really leave the workplace. The group of women analyzed were women from selective colleges that were offered jobs right after graduation. On average, they worked on their careers for 11 years and well after they had their second born child. However, these women didn’t leave their jobs due to their family duties, but 90 percent of them left because of workplace problems. These women were frustrated for the way they were treated and the ridiculous demands asked of them. These were asked to work longer hours for minimal tasks, and still be treated as a subordinate.

Another study was shown women that disagreed with the ethics that other employees followed kept them from climbing the promotional ladder. One experiment revealed that women who are already mothers are discriminated against for job opportunities with the fact that because they have a child, they won’t be as committed to the job as someone without kid would. Yet, the experiment also revealed that fathers aren’t penalized at all even though they have the same credentials at the women as well as being a parent.

Another scholarly source that I found was “Constructing new identities? The role of gender and education in rural girls’ life aspirations in Peru.” What this source focused on was mothers and daughters specifically in Peru and to show where education is on the list of priorities for them and how that affects their lifestyle. However, they also noticed some obstacles that got in their way of achieving their goals. For example, women are getting abused at home “Gender violence, for example, is still highly prevalent: in 2009, 39% of women reported physical violence by their male partners.” They also discuss the fact that laws in Peru have changed for the women especially by how more women participated in the National Congress. I agree with mostly what they said in this source. Since I only focused on a particular part that would support my project as a whole.

The only reason why I would disagree with this source would be if they said that women do not need education to survive on their own. Also, I did not read the whole journal because I wanted to focus on specific points that would help my project and when I skimmed the article I noticed that the headers were logical and from what I read, their reasonings made sense.

If I were to ask questions about this a few would be: “Do you think other countries are similar to Peru’s progress for women? Does this happen to majority of the women in Peru or only a few?” My answers to my own questions would be that maybe some other countries may take longer for women’s rights to be in full fledge and in other countries their system may be progressive and liberal. For the second question, I would not know how to answer that because I think that it I would have to research more about this and find data to show me the answer.