Gender Differences in the Workplace

Within the last thirty years, women have entered the workforce in record numbers. Today, it is more likely to meet a woman who works outside of the house than to meet a woman who does not. Females are now in management positions all over the nation also in professions that were previously reserved for men. As the number of females who enter the workplace increases, the gender differences are becoming more apparent.
Many more women have been entering high-tech fields in the last two decades. By 1996, thirty-nine percent of all computer programmers were women. "Women are also making slow but steady progress in entering nontraditional fields such as engineering, professions such as medicine and law, and elected and appointed political positions" ("Women" Para. 7).
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