Throughout history, women and men have played separate roles in society. This is how society was structured for the long time. Women have been more of supporters to men than leaders or co-workers. As the popular saying goes "Behind every successful man is woman", a role of support is what women have played for a really long time. In the world today, women are coming on as co-workers in predominantly male jobs and this has seen liberal society looks at a broader perspective of working women. Some of the major male jobs where women are making their presence felt is as follows-

Even though, the workplace violence against women and girls is receiving increasing attention from the media. But the incidents which are made as news are just the tip of the iceberg. Workplace violence against women is one of the serious public as well as health issue. Extreme forms of violence takes place against women, which are unabated in every continent, country as well as culture. It takes shocking toll on the working women's, their families and also on the society. Such violence is prohibited in many of the societies, yet the truth is covered up in most of the cases.

Success for any woman - whether as a professional, an entrepreneur or a corporate executive - requires careful, calculated branding, to enter the arena as well as to stay in the game. And double that if you want to succeed at the highest levels in your profession.

Women have always been considered as the fairer sex in society. However, at the workplace, women are not considered as competent as men. Women are therefore normally given jobs which require less skill and more of presentation. As this is the general understanding of women at the workplace, people who employ them generally take advantage of this line of thinking and take the opportunity to offer them an unfair wage. This happens all over the world, that being marginally in the western countries and predominantly in Middle East Asian countries.