According to Forbes opinion writer Larissa Faw, the phrase “breaking the glass ceiling” is now an instrument of the patriarchal dominated workplace. The ceiling is there, but don’t acknowledge the barrier of subjugation, the feminist thinking goes.
Even the women who have made worthy achievements up until now are not “mentors Millennial women need or should seek at this point in their lives.” Not only are they not needed, but they are a tainted by the status quo that was made supposedly by men, for men. “They played by the rules set by someone else,” she writes.
The cognitive dissonance level in Faw’s piece, titled “Why Millennial Women Need to Stop ‘Breaking the Glass Ceiling’,” is exceptional.
Faw expressed that the workplace was made for men: “… even though most of the current generation of both men and women were raised to be equals, it has been a rude awakening to realize that workplace equality remains rooted in the days of yesteryear when women fetched coffee and men brought home the bacon.”
Yet she fails to realize that most business standards are simply gender-universal, not a biased privilege for one gender over the other. Regardless, Faw calls for a complete female takeover. “We accept man’s system of economics, design, science as truth, … but creating a new system, this one led by females.”
This does not consider the possibility of men and women leading together. It is strictly female dominated. In fact, if implemented, it would create a workplace where men have a glass ceiling. Faw and other feminists would do well to appreciate both genders and acknowledge women’s successes in the workforce today.
Women have led the market by the nose for decades. According to GirlPowerMarketing.com, women make up 85 percent of consumer purchasing. This includes 91 percent of new home purchases, 66 percent of computers, 89 percent of bank accounts, and 93 percent of pharmaceuticals.
Knowing that men head the research, development, and management in the fields of science, technology, and finance that distribute these goods does not seem to keep women from consuming them. Neither does it deter women from wanting to work with men in these fields. They also state that 91 percent of women do not feel like advertisers understand them, but that didn’t keep 50 million women from tuning into the Super Bowl in comparison to the only 24 million who watched the Oscars. Which do you think had more advertising geared toward women?
Either women like Larissa Faw have experienced needless resistance in their careers, or they are simply under-informed concerning the reality of the female work experience.
British author Dorothy L. Sayers said, “There’s nothing you can’t prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.”
Women are dominating everywhere from academia to industry, and nothing is fundamentally restraining them from being as successful as they desire to be. They are individuals just as everyone else; therefore, they should be encouraged to chase what is necessary for them to feel accomplishment without someone laterally speaking on their behalf.
American society is exceptional in this regard. Nothing is capable of keeping you down permanently but you — not even that patriarchal glass ceiling.
