Women are better in business industry than men

Throughout history, women have been seen as inferior than men. Their potential and capacity has been overlooked, but today, the female force is breaking the stereotypes. In a world"s society, people tend to think that women should stay home, raise kids, and do house work. The problems that women face today are the same that they have faced for hundreds of years, but the only difference is that now they have the power to do something about it. "Women have always been dynamic, and they"ve always been in business", declared Nancy Koehn. (February 11, 2002) Although women weren"t always considered equal socially or economically to men, positive progress has been made in availability of education which had a direct reaction on women"s roles in business. In the past, women have had fewer career opportunities and legal rights than men. But it doesn"t mean that they didn"t work hard. In the 17th century the great majority of women had to work in the fields alongside men, and when the Industrial Revolution came along, they had to work in factories. Traditionally, a middle-class girl in Western culture tended to learn from her mother's example that cooking, cleaning, and caring for children was the behavior expected of her when she grew up. During the middle ages, Saxon women were allowed to own and inherit property and to make contracts. However, most Saxon women had to work as hard as men did. They were spinning and weaving, preparing food and drink and performing other tasks. They also spun wood, cooked, cleaned, washed clothes, fed animals, baked breads, and collected firewood. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the professions teacher, lawyer, and doctor were closed to women. However, some women had jobs. Some of them worked spinning cloth. Women were also milliners, dyers, shoemakers and embroiderers. Some of the women worked in a bakery, some sold food in the streets. A very common job was a domestic servant. Wives were supportive to their husbands; most of the men could not run their business or farm without their wife"s help and advice on finances and management. (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, 1994-1995) During the 18th century, women were gradually squeezed out of certain jobs such as barber-surgeon. Increasingly a well off woman's place was in the home. Girls from well off families went to school but it was felt important for them to learn k7;'accomplishments' like embroidery and music rather than academic subjects. In colonial America, girls could attend the master's schools for boys when there was room, usually during the summer when most of the boys were working. By the end of the 19th century, however, the number of women students had increased greatly. Higher education particularly was broadened by the rise of women's colleges and the admission of women to regular colleges and universities. In 1870 an estimated one fifth of resident college and university students were women. By 1900 the proportion had increased to more than one third. Women obtained 19 percent of all undergraduate college degrees around the beginning of the 20th century. In the late 1980s more than twice as many women as men taught in elementary and high schools. In higher education, however, women held only about one third of the teaching positions, concentrated in such fields as education, social service, home economics, nursing, and library science. A small proportion of Women College and university teachers were in the physical sciences, engineering, agriculture, and law. The great majority of women who work are still employed in clerical positions, factory work, retail sales, and service jobs. Secretaries, bookkeepers, and typists account for a large portion of women clerical workers. Women in factories often work as machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. Many women in service jobs work as waitresses, cooks, hospital attendants, cleaning women, and hairdressers. During the World War II many women were served in Army. (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, 1994-1995) In Soviet Union all of the people were involved in a labor. But in 20th century women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their opportunities to have jobs and education. They have accomplished a reevaluation of traditional views of their role in society.