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"Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt", this is a quote from Shirley Chisholm, the first African American women to be elected to the US Congress in 1968. Sadly, this quote is nevertheless true for modern present-day; women are still being discriminated because of their gender. The difference is that now, women are more likely to face treatment discrimination than access discrimination. Nowadays, institutions will more …

…Another way to combat institutional discrimination by using programs such as networking and minority mentoring programs, which pair female that has potential to be a top manager with senior-executive mentors; thus enabling women to gain better understanding of how the organization work. Women being mentor by senior manager enhance their business skills and decision making capabilities. They also influences the formal and informal structure of the organization and this will help break the gender discrimination.