It is not easy for women today to reconcile family life and work. If it’s already hard to get a job, it’s harder to keep it while taking care of your relationship and your children. There are many women who have given up motherhood to succeed professionally and those who have not given up have seen their careers stagnate after the arrival of their first child. That is something that does not happen to men, and that is that inequality between men and women is still present today.
Labor discrimination that affects women
Despite the Equality Law, one of the greatest social successes in our country, the number of managers continues to double that of women. According to a report by human resources company, pay inequality is still common among managerial positions. And not only that, but it takes women more time to promote to higher positions and, once they do, the obstacles to developing their work are many.
Labor discrimination suffered by women is a reality in the labor market. When an educated and competent woman arrives at a management position she continues to raise suspicions around her not only about how she got the position, but also about whether she is going to be able to perform her job as well as a man. Man. If we add to this that men who are in the same job category probably earn a higher salary, the outlook for women’s situation is discouraging.
Reconciliation of work and family life
Things get complicated for those women who have managed to reach a management position and want to start a family. The difficulty in finding a balance between their career and their family is a handicap they have to face every day. And it is not easy to be a senior executive in your company and the pillar that keeps your family together at the same time.
The complaints of working women are directed fundamentally at the little flexibility of schedules. Assuming that a reduction in working hours after maternity is certain to harm them in their career, the measures proposed in terms of reconciliation try above all to optimize working hours. In this sense, they hope that companies are aware that the teleworking modality or a combination of teleworking and face-to-face work would not only not harm the productivity of the company, but that the performance would be higher.
In any case, it will be difficult to achieve equality between men and women if both the Administrations and the companies do not commit to actively developing equality policies and if they do not comply with the reconciliation measures that women workers need. There is still a long way to go for those women who, through their own merits and worth, have managed to reach a management position and do not want to give up being mothers.
