When you’re a body in a room you’re a presence that’s hard to ignore. But in the freelance world too often we’re just voices in the ether. Our emails come from nameless places submitting our faceless pieces. And when you’re no longer needed it’s so much easier to just cut you off and let you disappear back into the internet void from which you sprung. 

I worked for a magazine for a time. It was a one man show. A product of his passions and rigid opinions. Yet, ultimately, the act of handing over concepts and ideas to be interpreted by a different pen was not one with which he was comfortable. And, as you might have guessed, this feeling was communicated to me only through a long silence and a series of unanswered messages. 

He cut me off like a spare part or a trailing thread. It appears we sacrifice our right to respectful treatment and consideration when we work outside of the daily office grind. But I’ll pay that price for being a free agent. In fact I regularly pay it. Over and over and again and again.

There was a time, when being a different gender; women were deprived of educational, political, and legal rights. This is not like prehistoric period, I am talking about. I am talking about last centuries. But things are changing for sure. According to a population survey conducted by Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2012, women constitute 47.9 percent of the total workforce here in US. Albeit, this data is encouraging for many of us, however, it is taking forever to ensure equitable position for female professionals in their workplace even in developed countries like USA.

Women are joining the labor force in a huge volume; lucrative corporate industries are also not an exception. Currently two giant companies are holding two women in their CEO position. I am referring to Facebook and Yahoo. Moreover, among top fortune 100 companies, 8 companies currently have female CEO, 46 females among 1000 companies. Women success story does not end here. Not only in the corporate sectors, women are now evolving utilizing their talent, dedication, and motivation in every sector, e.g., education, politics, industry, you name it!

However, unfortunately these women are not that much appreciated by their male counterpart in their workplace. Despite the popular believe that women are much weaker workforce compared to man, woman have proved themselves to be more focused, more detail oriented, and more deadline driven individual. Whatever things a professional women do in her job, traditionally it is also her duty to manage housekeeping. Therefore, women are not only doing universally accepted conventional money making job, they are also investing their time and effort in non-cash flowing chores. Having such enormous volume of workforce in house and outside of home place, it is everyone’s duty to keep these professional women’s morale high. We need to act now! It is the high time to develop a holistic approach to address women issues in workplaces.