Section 5
Women in the Workplace
By Boundless
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While women are succeeding in a number of professions, they continue to face significant barriers to entry and participation.
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Women are frequently treated unequally at work, often through sexual harassment and/or wage discrimination.
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Social expectations that women manage childcare contribute to the gender pay gap and other limitations in professional life for women.
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Women have historically been disadvantaged in education, and learning has often been segregated along gender lines.
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Women have had to fight for equal treatment in politics in the United States by winning the right to vote and a seat at the political table.
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Despite legal protections, job discrimination against women still exists in the workplace.
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Gender discrimination in health care manifests itself primarily as the difference that men and women pay for their insurance premium.