The colleague competing with Peggy Lewis for the department head position was a male colleague.
Though everyone talks about gender equality these days.
In fact, equality between men and women has not truly been achieved either in the workplace or in other aspects of life.
Discrimination against women still persists widely.
The workplace is one of the places where women face harsh and unequal treatment.
Without delving too much into it.
Let's just talk about the experiences that most female employees go through.
If they are close to 30, or even just over 25 years old, they will be asked if they have a boyfriend, whether they are married, whether they have children?
If they don't have a boyfriend, or if they have a boyfriend but are not married, then they will need maternity leave in the future, when they get married and have children.
If they are married and don't have kids, they will still need maternity leave in the future.
