Why women can face more trouble after corona?

Like many successful women in her career, Simone Ramos also feels that she has to work harder than men to reach the milestone of success.

Simone works in a major position in a global insurance company. He says that in this field dominated by men, he had to “get stronger and ahead of himself” every day.

 “At the beginning of my career I felt that I needed to leave the office and study more. I needed to prove myself three times more than any other man.”

She is also an advisor to the Brazilian Women’s Association in the insurance market. His book is also due in October. She tells young women that she can reach heights “with focus, determination and a clear purpose”.

But like other experts, he is also concerned about the additional pressure on women during the Corona epidemic and whether it can push them back.

Second shift ‘

It is difficult to work from home while staying with family, especially when your children’s schools are also running from home and other people in the house are also taking care of them.

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), only two-thirds of the care-related responsibilities are taken by women.

Justin Roberts, CEO and founder of Mumsnet, says, “There is no secret that women still hold most of the responsibilities of child care and domestic work.”

Mumsnet is the UK’s largest online company for parenting.

Justin says that this is really increasing the ‘pressure on women’ and especially the ‘burden’ on mothers.

 “Mothers are concerned that they put themselves at risk of being considered worthless and, since they find themselves unable to perform properly as before, put themselves in trouble during work. “

“Even if women feel that their jobs and income are safe, many still feel that such a situation cannot be sustained for long.”

Simone reminds that women usually have to work in the ‘second shift’ at home after finishing work in the office.

Now during this epidemic, most of these women are “trying to do both these shifts at the same time”. This is affecting their mental health and she is contemplating to quit or is quitting.

‘Work place is outdated’

Alison Zimmerman, director of Catalyst, an NGO working to improve workplace conditions for women, says, “We really have to think about what conditions women have to go through at work places.”

“The current system is outdated. And if you pay attention to it, then new changes at workplaces after Kovid will be in the interest of business institutions.”

Catalyst has tracked the careers of women and men with ten MBAs from top business schools in Asia, Canada, Europe and the United States for years.

In this experience, he has found how women become excited about their careers after becoming mothers. But, there are also partisan reasons which try to slow the progress of women irrespective of their experience whether she is a mother or not.

You can see an example of this in the study of Catalyst. According to this study, after completing MBA, women are ahead of men in joining the first job of lower level. After this, when men work for more hours to take their career forward, it proves to be effective for them, but they do not get that success when women do it.

Men get increased salary as soon as they change jobs, but women have to prove themselves first in the eyes of their manager.

Alison Zimmerman says, “Women always have to improve their performance but men get promoted based on their ability.”

She adds, “There is a belief that if the work that women are doing is done by men, then they will do it in a much better way, but the truth is not like this.”

“Higher standards are often set for women than men. It

There is a bias sitting in the subconscious. “

The crisis in the economy makes it more difficult

An American study has revealed that during the economic crisis, such prejudices start coming up fresh and strong.

According to this study, when the company is going through a difficult situation, then women will have to go through a more difficult time to go to the top positions of the company.

Based on an analysis of 50,000 board selections of 1100 companies, the study found that from 2003 to 2015, shareholders had little difficulty in taking women as board members, but as the company began to deteriorate. He gave up trusting women candidates.

Corinne Post of Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA, told the BBC, “Except for the prejudice about women, it is difficult to find any other reason for this because the harder the women work, the harder the women work. “

Steve Sorveld of the University of Illinois, Chicago, points out that many studies confirm that diversity improves the company’s results. This makes the company less likely to cheat. More ethical behavior is adopted. This gives the company an advantage over other companies in a competitive market.

Arjun Mitra of California State University says that companies are suppressing the talent of women at a time when they can live in the efficient leadership of women.

“This clearly shows that companies do not take a positive attitude towards taking women into leadership roles.”

Low income women also affected

In the last fifty years, there have been significant improvements in gender equality in the world, but according to the World Economic Forum, it will take a century more to bridge the gap between women and men at workplaces.

Kovid-19 has impacted the women of the lower income group. The crisis in the economy has created a bigger crisis for the jobs of women than men. This is because the lockdown has affected the sectors where the participation of women was good, such as the hotel, food, retail and manufacturing sectors.

In these sectors, while 59 percent of women work in Central America, 49 percent of women work in South-East Asia. In South America, this figure is 45 percent.

In a survey published in June by Pew Resort Center of USA, it has been said that in many countries there is a strong belief that women are less entitled to jobs than men.

When people were asked whether men should have more rights than women in jobs during the economic crisis, 80 percent of people in India and Tunisia agreed.

While 70 percent of people in Turkey, Philippines, Indonesia and Nigeria agreed.

In Kenya, South Africa, Lebanon and South Korea, more than 50 percent had the opinion, while in Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine and Mexico the figure was close to the global average of 40 percent.

Juliana Horowitz, associate director of social and demographic trends at Pew, says there is a tense situation in countries where people talk about gender equality but believe that men are more entitled to jobs than women.

She says, “In countries experiencing economic crisis due to the epidemic, the opportunities that women get may be adversely affected.”

‘One step back and two steps forward’

But whatever the impact but the epidemic will one day pass. Simone Ramos believes that after this we will have to face new reality. It has already started thinking about it.

She believes that companies have started taking more lenient steps and in the coming times, they will provide employees with options suited to their personal circumstances.

“I believe that we will take one step back and two steps forward,” says Luciana Barrows, CEO of a property management firm.

He says that women are becoming aware of their careers, so “their struggle for gender equality is not going to end here.” But she believes that after Corona, the situation is going to be difficult for women in the market.