Media and Corporate World Challenges and Opportunities

Anthropolgy On The Nature Of The Corporate World
Mark Dyu          
Professor Hernann
Anthropology 1001

      In today's business world, the gender stereotype of dominant positions for males and subordinate positions for females in today’s Wall Street upper management career field still exists, and it does hold water. Through several interviews as well as outside resources, the conclusion that there is a bias towards males in the world of corporate executives is proven to be true. In order to support my thesis I have interviewed two female corporate employees at different levels of the corporate ladder, and created a survey, asking participants whether they believe that men or women hold the majority of upper management positions; both methods of research yielding integral results in favor of my thesis. All this information is very important because it will better equip the ladies and gentlemen entering the corporate world with an idea of what role gender plays in the workplace and whether it can be used as an advantage
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or a disadvantage. Unfortunately my research has proven the stereotype that women are at a disadvantage to men in the corporate world as true, my report finding that “despite increasing awareness of gender disparities in the workplace, women at many of the world’s top companies continue to lag behind their male peers in many areas, including pay and opportunities for professional advancement (Clark).”
      A not for profit company by the name of Catalyst recently conducted a survey concerning the jobs of women in the corporate world, and the results were quite shocking. One of the company's research studies calculated the percentage of U.S. Women in business at different levels of the corporate ladder. “The majority of women were found in the labor force as well as lower management positions, with just 13 percent as executive...