While women are succeeding in a number of professions, they continue to face significant barriers to entry and participation.
Women are frequently treated unequally at work, often through sexual harassment and/or wage discrimination.
Social expectations that women manage childcare contribute to the gender pay gap and other limitations in professional life for women.
Women have historically been disadvantaged in education, and learning has often been segregated along gender lines.
Women have had to fight for equal treatment in politics in the United States by winning the right to vote and a seat at the political table.
Despite legal protections, job discrimination against women still exists in the workplace.
Gender discrimination in health care manifests itself primarily as the difference that men and women pay for their insurance premium.