Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Why do women occupy fewer leadership roles today?

Suffrage may have been achieved a century ago, and the right to work about 60 years ago, but that has not placed a damper on the age-old stereotype casting women into the realms of domesticity for life. Formidable feminist ancestors such Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, Savitribai Phule, Sarojini Naidu, and many other powerful women fought for their successors rights to equal opportunity and equality. India may have a law against monetary discrimination on the basis of gender, but that hasn’t stopped evidence of discrimination from being blatantly obvious.