In Class Activity

One topic that interested me in researching was how few women and minorities there are in top executive positions. In the past, men have been the dominating group within the business field. Now, more women and minorities are going into business and accounting. I am motivated by this topic because I am a woman and I am majoring in accounting. I have many goals I want to reach in my career and this issue could be one challenge that keeps me from reaching that goal.

This is an important to me because this can affect me now and also challenge me in my future career. I feel strongly about how much this affects women in the field that I am studying now. I can be a stubborn person and do not like when something stops me from achieving my goals. I like having a challenge and by doing this it could be the first step in overcoming that challenge. An important point to this would be to raise awareness of this situation. Some people think that we have gotten past discrimination against women in the workplace. Businesses have come a long way to have more women and minorities in the workplace, but there are still some discrimination. There is still the salary differences and also the problem I want to research of so few minorities and women in top executive positions. If there are more people who are aware that this issue is still around, I feel that more people will take action to make a difference and change how things are.

I'm not sure how I'm going to go about conducting my research. I would like to find articles of people's experiences and how they overcame their challenges. Another way would be to try to find a documentary about someone talking about their experiences. As of right now, my main way of conducting my research is going to be doing extensive research of articles.