Opinion Article on Gender Equality

Opinion Article on Gender Equality

break the crystal cealing

More than 40 years have passed since the feminist Marilyn Loden denounced in a speech the existence of a "glass ceiling" that prevents the ascent professional women at work, and that continues to be a reality for millions of women in the West, especially in the so-called “Third World”.

This glass ceiling, invisible as its name accuses it, prevents most of us women from reaching managerial positions in Business to which we have dedicated our lives and justifies that we earn less than our male colleagues for performing the same job, among other unacceptable work situations but totally naturalized by the culture sexist.

The arguments Wielded to make it invisible are many: that women prefer to dedicate ourselves to the family and not to professional success (as if we were a homogeneous whole that always thinks the same), which incidentally is never a choice that conditions success male; or that pregnancy causes a delay in our careers or even that we women simply do not try hard enough.

When it comes to commenting on this, the most astonishing considerations can appear since, to many, anything is preferable to reviewing how our society rewards success professional.

I have never understood why many (usually men) are uncomfortable with the glass ceiling complaint, but I suspect that it has to do with feeling like they were beneficiaries of it. injustice. In other words, admitting that professional competition between men and women does not occur in terms of Equality is a thought that intimidates them, makes them feel vulnerable, makes them question their own achievements. Can someone explain to me where that masculine fragility comes from? Where does that come from low self-esteem, that need to justify the existence of being essential suppliers?

Our male companions could simply reflect on it, if they took a look around. Because that is another of the toxic conditions of traditional masculinity: his egocentricity, his inability to empathy, a reflection of an upbringing that removes any emotional sensitivity as early as possible. Don't they have sisters, friends, mothers, girlfriends, and acquaintances whose stories they hear every day?

The serious thing about the matter is that the change will occur with or without them, but it could be much simpler, more harmonious and more constructive if they are precisely they who help us break the glass ceiling, if they assume part of a movement for equality (not for female superiority, as many seem to believe) whose ultimate mission is to achieve a society in which success is celebrated, regardless of what one has among the legs.

Logically, that would imply the renunciation of one's privileges, and that is something that rarely in history happens voluntarily. We can understand it. But if this is the case, male companions, they will have to endure the noise of the stones that we will continue to throw to break the glass ceiling. And do not come later to complain if one of them hits you on the head by mistake.

References:

• "Opinion journalism" in Wikipedia.
• "Gender equality" in Wikipedia.
• "Glass ceiling" in Wikipedia.
• "Women's human rights and gender equality" in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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