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It's a fact that women leaders and managers are much more common nowadays compared to

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the past. Women's participation rate in business life is increasing day by day due to factors such

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as the development of the socio-cultural structure of our age, the increase in women's level of

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education, the creation of trade union rights that support their employment, and the emergence

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of new fields of work. However, despite all these positive developments, the large majority of women

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are still struggling with inequality and injustice in business life, as well as social life. Even

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though the number of women actively participating in the business world is increasing, they still

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face many obstacles in advancing to higher executive positions. Despite being the chief architects of

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society, women's contributions to society are considerably underestimated or all too often

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simply ignored. Women are often marginalized through gender discrimination, are subjected to unjust

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behavior and practices. They face many difficulties in terms of working conditions, employment,

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recruitment, wages, and promotion. Undoubtedly, the reason behind this is a false public perception

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of women imposing the belief that women should only work in lower-level managerial positions. In other

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words, a discriminatory view toward women. Women holding positions that require a strong personality,

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such as management, are not considered rational by some circles. At the root of this mentality are

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stereotypical sentiments claiming that women are more sensitive and weaker than men, and that their

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sentimentality outweighs their rationality and their spiritual disposition. This misconception makes it very

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difficult for women to advance in their careers. The popular term, glass ceiling, explains the invisible

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obstacles that prevent women from advancing in business life and reaching top executive positions.

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These are invisible obstacles because this limitation is never explicitly talked about.

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While expecting a promotion, female executive candidates who want to reach senior positions

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women are faced with a virtual glass ceiling without knowing why.

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The term, glass ceiling, was first introduced in the 1970s to describe prejudices that prevented women

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from reaching senior management positions in the United States.

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Today, only a few women can overcome these obstacles. Moreover, the situation is the same in any part of the world.

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The truth is, women are deep thinking, reliable, clever, and wise beings. They are superior to men in

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spotting the intricate aspects of events and noticing the details. They can perform their tasks in the best way possible,

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making the right decisions, produce the best solutions, and come up with the most rational measures.

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Therefore, they can achieve great success both in social life and in business life.

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It must be recognized that keeping women away from business life is greatly detrimental to a society's future.

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In order to become an advanced, intellectual, and civilized society, it is imperative that women take center stage in that society.

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In this context, women should have equal, as a matter of fact, even more, rights and freedoms.

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The belief that men are somehow inherently superior to women should be eliminated altogether.

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The mentality that falsely claims that women lack intelligence must be urgently defeated.

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Women should be given priority in all areas of social life, the business world, education, and politics.

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At this point, we should remember that women also have important responsibilities.

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Women should resist with patience and vigilance the impositions of a male-dominated society,

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and oppose negative prejudices against them.

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As a matter of fact, the Queen of Saba, an example from the Quran, clearly proves that women can be state administrators,

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who can take very important and to-the-point decisions about the most intricate problems.

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We should remember that God created men and women as equal.

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Superiority does not lie in technical details such as body strength or the amount of muscle mass,

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but only in good morality and faith.

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God explains in the Quran that people should be evaluated not based on gender, but on piety.

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I seek refuge in God from Satan.

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Mankind, we created you from a male and female,

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and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may come to know each other.

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The noblest among you in God's sight is the one with the most piety.

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God is all-knowing, all-aware.

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The noblest among you in God is all-knowing, all-aware.

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The noblest among you in God is all-knowing, all-aware.