5 health barriers working women face—and how to break them
It’s been 100 years since U.S. women won voting rights. Communicators, ensure that women won’t wait as long to rid the workplace of unfair health barriers.
Enshrined in the Constitution 100 years ago, women’s right to vote shattered barriers for future generations. The power of choice, however, still eludes women trying to stay well while working.
Shouldering remote work duties while being caregivers, surrogate teachers, and household managers, women in today’s workplace balance a mountain of stress. Health-related gender biases are so common, they have shockingly become accepted customs.
Businesses must do their part to remedy the wellness crisis for working women. As a start, communicators can point out where gender assumptions threaten the health, safety and sense of belonging for employees.
The gender gauntlet
Single or partnered? Mother or childfree? Age 40 or older? Younger? Racial identity? Gender expression?
Welcome to women’s daily dash through the gender gauntlet.
Throughout their careers, women confront overlapping dimensions of bias or “intersectionality,” a term first specified by legal and civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. Although experiences of unfair treatment are very personal, the marginalization of working women as a group persists because it is embedded in business culture.
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