There is no doubt that gender bias has negative impacts on women’s health, lives and personal development, and the gender issue is also a source of inequality in our contemporary society. To solve the issue, two solutions can be used for women to break the glass ceiling and protect themselves. First of all, when encountering gender biases or gender discrimination, women should protect their rights by suing employers or organizations. For example, the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution banned all kinds of discrimination based on people’s gender, age and race and so on (Blau and Kahn, 2007). Moreover, the Equal Pay Act also bans gender-based wage gaps (Blau and Kahn, 2007). When women are facing gender biases in the workplace, they can use these laws and ask for legal aids to protect their rights and interests.
Secondly, women can also use some strategies or tactics to break the glass ceiling. For example, Joan C. Williams suggests that female workers can put a sign on their office doors, and if they were absent from the office, people can learn from the sign about where they were and what they were doing (Ogden, 2019). Also, as Williams notes, dishonesty should be banned in the workplace, but moms should not unveil all the truths. Thus, even if female employees have to be out of the office to deal with issues with children and family, they can write on the sign as “out of office meetings” without mentioning family or children (Ogden, 2019). Taking these tactics and tips can help women from being biased, and they can also develop their own skills to relieve their stress in the workplace.