Answered! What are some of the specific issues women experience in business? How do the skills that women generally bring to…

• Gender discrimination: Gender discrimination is one of the biggest problems faced by women these days. They receive comparatively lesser salaries, growth and promotion opportunities in the workplace as compared to men.
• Work-life balance: it becomes difficult for the women to maintain proper balance between their personal and professional work. For example, they need to take leaves during their pregnancy, or when someone gets ill at home, etc.
• Workplace harassment: this is also a huge problem faced by women these days. They need to face sexual and stereotypic comments, workplace harassment by colleague or boss, etc.

Women generally bring diverse set of skills to the workforce which is different from that of men as explained below-

• They are more empathetic towards the workforce needs. They are more likely to consider and understand needs of the employees.
• Women have greater networking skills than men. They believe in taking group decisions rather than doing it single-handedly.
• Women are more collaborative and communicative than men. Besides, they generally opt for win-win situations.
• They have greater capability to motivate the workforce.
• Women also showcases stronger ethics and morality.