"Morons and Oxymorons: Undermining Women in Leadership" by Nicholas Bray is about how people are undermining women when it comes to leadership. The article goes into detail about why people undermine women. Also what makes women question themselves.
Nicholas Bray makes it clear that he believes that women should be treated equal. He starts by saying "Women leaders are trapped in an identity conflict created by stereotypes about how they should behave." Bray wants to show the reader how women are equally as good as men. "Adopting typically male attributes like grey suits in such an environment won’t resolve the contradictions, she says, and may actually worsen the inner conflict between leadership identity and gender identity." Because women try to show men that they are equal in the process they can build on top of the fact that there are stereotypes. A study shows that women are moving faster then men "According to OECD figures, 47 percent of women in OECD countries are now set to graduate from university, against only 32 percent of men." If this is true then why do women have to work harder to try to prove themselves?
Stereotypes have been a part of society for a long time. "According to Karelaia, however, the causes lie much deeper, in stereotypical attitudes to gender and leadership that are deeply entrenched among both women and men." Women are also set back by "family obligations, including the bearing and raising of children, are often cited as the main explanation." Although this is not said aloud people still think it.
This article makes me think about how women are treated in society. You see women being undermined everyday. Even kids do it, it may not be intentional but it still happens.
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