Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
There was a previous generation of women who rose through the ranks in an environment when work and life were highly compartmentalized. And I think now, because of technology, we're always on. Where there used to be work life and home life, now it's one life. And I think a lot of companies don't recognize that.
Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.
Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.
Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.
Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.
Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.