Why are women in leadership underrepresented? (eBook)

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Sociology - Social System and Social Structure, grade: 2,7, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Fachbereich Gesellschaftwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: In today’s world, as the younger generations have more gender-sensitive lifestyle, and those topics are discussed more and more in the media, social media, and daily life. More people are behaving differently than their parents and grandparents. In every conversation, now we are talking about gender related discriminations, sexism, patriarchy in every aspect of daily life. And yet the gender discrimination in political area is still lack. As all women face power inequalities and power structures in their daily lives, we can also find it in the leadership positions. Why is the case? Why is there less women in political area than men? How do gendered relations affect women in leadership positions? Why is there glass ceiling, occupational gender segregation, gender pay gap? How can we solve the problem and have more women in leadership positions? These concerns will appear in the course of this paper.