http://www.ellecanada.com/home/fashion/lights-camera-fashion/a/28965/4

The first picture is a scene from the film, Working Girl from 1988 showing Melanie Griffith in her power suit. This image is a good representation of the woman trying to make her way to the boardroom – the padded shoulders and the masculine cut of the suit which gives the feeling that women have to have a slightly less feminine look in order to be taken seriously. The film is all about breaking out of the stereotypical view of the woman as the secretary rather than the boss.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/jodie-allen/2010/01/07/working-women-ascendant--but-ambivalent
The second piece is an article on the US News website which has the results of a poll on people’s attitude to working women. What I found interesting was that 62% of the women polled would prefer to work part time. It seems that despite fighting for the right to ‘have it all’, many women don’t really want it all. The survey also shows that by a ratio of two to one, Americans think that men have a better life than women and women support this view, according to the survey.