Men still rule the corporate world.

Wait and let me explain before all you women start screaming. I know that in this day and age of the year 2005 that all females love to say we are finally getting equal treatment at work. Well, if you are a woman that works and you still believe that, I envy your position.

I work in the world of private corporations, and as much as it pains me to say it, that world is still run by men. I never thought that I would work for a company that is completely ran by men. All of the Presidents and Vice Presidents and "important" people and the clients I am trying to sell to are men. As a woman, this makes my job very difficult. I deal with prospective clients from the "old school" way of thinking that would rather deal with a man than a 25 year old woman. It is a joke to them that an intelligent, young woman could actually exist and if she does, that she knows what she is talking about when it comes to business.

This is so frustrating to me because in the year that I have been in this business, I have learned more than most people do in 3 years. But still I struggle every day to be heard by the male dominants.

My one hope is that by the time my redhead is a woman in the working world, that we will have progressed and women will be recognized as intelligent and worthy as men.