Business training helps with equality issues in workplace
Though business training includes many methods and techniques for improving sales pitches and the attitudes and approaches salespeople use, there is one thing that people think business training can sometimes allow to slip by the wayside. The issue of equality in the work place.
Many people question whether or not this is an issue at all anymore. One of the biggest “bosses” in the country is Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. And Sonia Sotomayor’s recent election to the Supreme Court shows otherwise as well. However, with these great leaps for women in positions previously held in general by men, some say the fight for equality has become a thing of the past.
With Price Waterhouse versus Hopkins in 1989, this equality issue was right out in front. Ann Hopkins was the defendant in the case. The case was to judge whether or not the company she worked for passed over her for a partnership because she was a woman. She was a perfect candidate, having been very successful through the business training the corporate world provides day in and day out and through her own abilities. She was a hard worker who took initiative and an excellent leader. She expected much from the people under her, but drove herself just as hard.
But that drive was considered by some to be rudeness and aggressiveness. On the other hand those same qualities, argued others, might be the same in a man but described differently because of gender biases. While the Supreme Court agreed her conduct could be too aggressive, they also say how there was discrimination at the workplace based on comments from other people who said she would get farther if she projected a more feminine persona.
Though the controversy of this case still exists, it is being addressed more and more in through leadership training. Women have more opportunities than ever to succeed in business roles now.
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