What are the factors which lead to learned helplessness in women and why do they lead to it?basically what leads to it and how does it lead to it???

I have to agree with the previous editor that learned
helplessness is to be applied to the way in which women have become helpless.  However,
I also have to add that social restrictions also create an aura of helplessness that
restricts women from further developing.  In America women have had more opportunities
for growth, but there is still left the thought process that certain things in our
society are considered to be a "man's job."

Men have
suffered a blow to their ego with the emergence of woman in the role of men's jobs, but
the population of women taking in leadership roles in math, science, and businesses is
still below the average for men.  I do have to add though that many men are quite
comfortable and accepting of women as coworkers. This reverts back to socialization and
the way in which women are socialized.  There has been progress in this area, but it
will still take a long time before the statistics will show an equal balance among women
and men in the fields of science, medicine, businesses, and
math.