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Posted on: May 01, '08

Challenges Women Face

Challenges Women Face
Women starts her life as a child.....

A innocent child without knowledge of the future she has to follow in this world....

She represents Love, Peace, Mother, Friend, Teacher, Lover, Husband, which is as described in below pictures.....






Poets write on her beauty, eyes, and beautiful hair.....

Children call her Angel.....



Let us understand...
Challenges Women Face in the Workplace
This is a great time for women in business. There are more opportunities available than ever before, and a high demand for people with leadership, management and marketing skills. At the same time, however, women continue to face challenges in getting ahead, achieving the recognition they deserve, and integrating the career and personal life they most desire.
Two of their biggest challenges involve the glass ceiling that still blocks women at many companies from advancing to their full potential and the formidable task of balancing career, family and personal lives.
The Glass Ceiling
Those women who can follow a dream or find support within an organization stay. Yet many women reach a point where they feel that nobody's interested in backing or training them.
As a result, every 11 seconds, a woman leaves corporate to start her own business reported The National Foundation for Women Business Owners. The number one reason why...is to pursue their personal dreams.
Before making this leap, many of these new entrepreneurs bump up against a glass ceiling in their organization that says, "You can advance just this far, but no farther." In fact, too often, instead of cracking over the years, I've personally watched this glass ceiling turn to cement. When women discover they have a harder time than ever moving beyond that ceiling, they ask, "Why bother?" and move on to create work environments that are more supportive of their goals. Or, these days those who do break through sometimes look around and go, "I don't like what I see, I want to get out of here."
Women need to be realistic about what's holding them back, however. The glass ceiling implies gender issues and these may or may not be the problem. There are other reasons some women don't get promoted. Sometimes, there's a skill they need to learn or a person they need to know, who can help them.
There are other reasons women leave companies, too. Maybe they're not having fun anymore because opportunities are becoming more limited. Whatever the reason, when women feel stuck, it's time dust off their skills, look around and reinvent themselves. They need to ask themselves:
• What is my goal?
• What excites me?
• What could I do?
• What other type of organization might I like to work for? Am I certain I won't run into the same issues there?
• Do I want to start my own business? If so, they need some self assessment. Starting a company is not right for everyone.
• What's the right strategic move?
The reality is that while companies are changing, it's still going to take more time for the old male-oriented structures to become more woman-friendly. No matter now successful a woman is. Cultural differences remain, and women have to be realistic about how these differences play out in the corporate world. Look closely at how people are treated and promoted wherever you work.
Making a Change
We can help the changes along. One way is to know and educate people about statistics, such as:
• 80% of consumer purchases are made by women.
• In 1991, more people worked for women-run businesses than for Fortune 500 companies.
• There are million women-owned businesses, representing trillion in sales, It's also important to maintain a sense of humor, while we work toward those changes.
If you do want to work for a company rather than start your own business, look for one that appreciates the importance of women and values them. For example, Hewlett Packard, recognizing a talent base and customer base of women, has a woman CEO. HP was also the first organization to develop an internal woman's network, where women at the company get together, talk about work issues and support each other within the organization.
Look for successful women to mentor you. And, when you have an opportunity, mentor other women as well.
Balancing Work and Family
Another major issue for women at work is how to balance work and life. Fortunately, companies are recognizing that part of this balancing-taking care of family matters, including raising children, isn't just a women's issue, but a man's issue, too. Fortune magazine recently ran an issue on fathers at work and the impact that balancing work/family is having on them. Employers are also having to deal with the fact that many workers are single parents. Almost 80% of children in this country are raised in a single household sometime in their lives.
This raises many new concerns for women at work. The question for some becomes not, "How do I break through the glass ceiling?" But "Do I really want to work that hard and make the sacrifices to my family that I need to make in order to break through it? More and more people, including successful and well-known women-and men, are saying, "My family comes first."
The fact that I'm a single parent and supporter of two young children has definitely influenced the career choices I now make. It's important for me to have breakfast every morning and dinner at night with my children. I have canceled major presentations to make sure I show up at the Christmas play. I no longer work as a senior executive for a major organization. My strategic move has been to work as a professional speaker with an organization that would give me more opportunity to be home. From the start, I explained, "I'll work really hard for you, but what's important also is for me to spend time with my children. I'm a single parent and it's a necessity that I be there for them." That was a career choice I made.
Yes, sometimes making these choices can be career changing, but what's most important is to be true to yourself and your personal priorities. The goal is not to choose work or family. It's to balance and integrate both worlds successfully.
By the way, ask any woman about how she started her own company to spend more time with her children and she will laugh at you. Started your own business because you want to spend more time with your children is a silly notion. Get clear on which option you really want and which one is really true and practical for you.
Whatever choices you make, women have experienced that the whole notion of "You can have it all" in work and life doesn't play out quite like they thought it would be. Working mothers, working fathers who are actively involved in their families and careers are exhausted. I recently asked my doctor about fatigue, and his response was, "Of course you're tired. You're a single, working mother. How can you expect not to be?"
On that note, when balancing work and life, remember to take care of yourself first. So many women focus on taking care of others at work and at home that they forget about themselves. You know, in airplanes, they tell you to put the oxygen on yourself first...it's true on the ground, too.
Overall, the job market is changing, and more women and men are openly expressing how important balancing work and life is to them. As a result, organizations are discovering that in order to maintain top talent, they have to be family-friendly.

It's the women who pray for the husband,child an every one in the family:-


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tenjade_destiny said:
this is surely very informative..However Ms. Heather Shea (ITS GOOD TO MENTION THE NAMES WHO ORIGINALLY WRITES)who wrote this has designed it more for the corporate women, that too who are in the other part of the world, a progresssive nation like America..

secondly, i personally feel this is totally far from reality if you are speaking of challenges women face. the real challenges are challenges related to security, against exploitation, agadinst discrimination in the the families, for the right of thinking, expressing and surviving. they face challenges everywhere more in personal and also in professional to a large extent.

well, the pics are really nice and inspiring..

May 05, '08

Nazlini said:
nice post

May 05, '08

kola007 said:
thats all the women above all.

May 02, '08

south9468 said:
hey its a very gud post

May 02, '08

daisyann26 said:
VERY NICE POST

May 02, '08

maalolan said:
a good one....

May 01, '08

syed2127 said:
Good & very interesting on challenges a women face.

May 01, '08

munir0013 said:
chomotkar !

May 01, '08

ashokthakur said:
INTERESTING

May 01, '08

diya1992 said:
hi ,
very nice n intersting and thx for sharing

May 01, '08

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