Asian American Women reaching the Glass Ceiling by Karla Henry

        It is undeniable that there exists physiological differences between men and women. This truth is used to justify the unequal treatment of women on all levels of human interactions. The uneven treatment is clearly reflected and often ignored towards Asian American women.Many women insist that the glass ceiling is a real barrier to accessing male-dominated positions in business, many challengers say that it exists mostly because women choose to focus more of their time on family and, in the end, cannot dedicate as much time to their career.

The prevailing historical attitude of men towards women would have us believe that physiological differences limit women in their choice of career, their intellectual maturity, their credibility, as well as their ability to be effective contributors to the advancement of human society and that these differences warrant that women be treated differently from men.This term normally applies to women in workplaces who are unfairly paid lowly unlike the males even though they are both doing the same work. The term the Glass Ceiling is used to refer to discrimination which is done on the basis of gender, limiting women to inferiority and harassment by the society. The society which is stereotypical accepts the domination that is practiced on women resulting to weakening a woman both physically and mentally.

In the article by Laura Koss Feder “ Diversity Efforts often ignored Asian Women” says that professional women of Asian descent say their needs in the workplace are often overlooked and that these initiatives do not always include them as much as other women of color. The result is that Asian women say  is that they are often looked out of top jobs in the workplace. Compared to other minority groups, Asian women make up a particularly minuscule portion of Fortune 500 corporate officers. 

In higher educational level Asian American women also represent a small portion of their promotional levels. Even thou Asian American Women are the most likely to have graduate education and yet the least likely to have line or supervisory responsibilities or hold a position within three levels of the chief executive officer. In these effort to achieve higher levels of achievements Asian American Women suffer extreme fear of failure, unpleasantly competitive natures, withdrawal from society, stress related disorders and mostly they have the highest suicide rate in the nation amongst women 15 to 24 years old. 

For Asian American women to reach the glass ceiling looks a dream that might never come true. Looking at all these facts we can still see the inequality of how Asian American women are perceived. The inability to reach higher levels in their profession is not determined by the number of degrees they have but what others think of them. It is hard for me to see that this type of society still exist today because the idea of achieving a degree to get to a higher level is brought upon us in many ways, media, schools, etc., but still in the real world this is not what really happens.