Gender Discrimination At The Workplace

It is not up for debate whether women are discriminated against in the workplace, it is evident in census data; in 2013, among full-time, year-round workers, women were paid 78 percent of what men were paid. It is said that the organizations that are pro-equal pay, including some unions, support the idea that the government should set wages for all jobs. To the contrary, the organizations that are proponents of equal pay are not for job wages being set by the government-they wish to have the discrimination taken out of pay scales from within the company. Commonly, this pay gap is attributed to the fact that women in the United States are still expected to attend to familial obligations over work.

Despite Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law which bans gender and race discrimination in employment, advancement, and termination, ethnic discrimination and prejudice in the workplace is still a very pertinent issue. In fact, racial discrimination is the most common kind of discrimination workers report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency in charge of enforcing Title VII. Prejudice in the workplace is shown in a variety of forms, is either obvious or subtle, and at times may occur without employers even realizing it. As the General Manager of a popular restaurant in Texas, I witnessed such racial discrimination and prejudice firsthand and saw how detrimental it is to the success of

Over the last ninety years, women have battled to become equal with men in all aspects of life and work (Parcheta, 2013). Male domination and power has become the social assumption as gendered occupations and beliefs have been projected throughout society as the status quo. Though challenging, this status quo is still present. Women have manufactured huge developments in career and education training, but equal treatment to a man, pay, and promotions in the workplace still escape them. Sociologists have documented that gender is not mainly a role or identity. It is an institutionalized system of social practices for constituting people as two different categories; male and female, and organizing relations of inequality around that difference (Ridgeway & Correll, 2000). In categorizing gender as a social construction, differentiations between males and females help to develop gender difference.

One reason for the pay gap between men and women is occupational segregation. Around two thirds of women fall into 21 of the 500 occupations in the U.S., and at the same time women's work is paid less. While in the work environment women tend to face sexual harassment. Due to long and continuous sexual harassment women will tend to leave their jobs, reject raises, deny promotions, and lost their drive to work. All of which affects the amount of pay they take home.

The purpose of this paper is to select a social justice issue that is prevalent within our society, engage in a group, develop peer relationships, and finally analyze and conclude based on the collaborative research of the selected issue. The selected topic of sexism within the workplace is analyzed in depth by examining this social justice issue, its demographics, and its impact on the workforce utilizing the feminist theory. This group has investigated the history of the social justice issue by providing and analyzing research dated back to the Industrial Revolution and Unionization leading up to the basic present-day overview; the hiring process within the workplace by providing and analyzing research the definition of occupational discrimination,

For almost a century, women have been working in the same jobs as men but with lower “titles” and lower incomes. According to Naomi Barko, almost no women has entered a job that stereotypically classifies the job as a “man’s job.” The stereotypical “women’s job” incudes those of secretarial, teaching, and nursing which are often paid less for work that is harder than what most think. The majority of women and men who enter the “women’s job” continue wot complain about unequal pay hey are receiving comparable to that of the men in the same job, yet they continue to work in the same job and accept the pay they are receiving. There seems to be a major lack of action taken which is rooted from the social acceptance of womanly jobs are less important

For years, there weren’t equal rights for women at work. Employers hired and gave promotions to men more than women just because they were men. In big companies around the world still to this day, a higher salary is pay to men with the same qualifications and job experience as a woman. Supposedly today there is a law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace based on gender. However, discrimination in the workplace still exists today.

From the beginning of time the male and female have been expected to perform certain roles in society. Males have been expected to work and provide for their family while the female raises the children, cooks, cleans and keeps the house in order. Today many women have broken that tradition and are starting their careers and becoming more independent. Even though females today are braking away from that stereotype, they are being discriminated in the work place because there are still individuals out there that believe that women should play a certain role and that they are not strong enough to work in a cooperation or

Discrimination can be expressed in many different ways, which n no matter can be very hurtful to a person. Discrimination itself means making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit (Merriam-Webster). One way of expressing discrimination is denying one a job because of his/her race or gender, or treating others unfairly because of his/her race or gender. Discrimination can lead to quitting a job, and possibly doing something harmful to oneself or to the aggressor. Different ways of discrimination occurs very often in the workplace. The most common would be, sexism against women; because men are the more dominant

While the most controversial presidential inauguration of the century was occurring, women and men across the globe grabbed their poster boards and got ready for one of the biggest marches on human rights for women's rights. Activists around the world are uniting in supporting the basic human rights for women. A global consensus is growing on the need to address the most pressing issues affecting women and girls, especially on providing access to education, health care and domestic violence.

There is a controversial debate going on about whether men and women are equals at the office. Some companies believe that they are treating men and women fairly with no gender bias and equal pay. Others know that these big companies are getting treated unjustly in many different ways in the workplace. Therefore, men and women aren’t getting equal treatment at work because women aren’t getting taken as seriously as men and women’s salaries are much lower than men’s.

Discrimination is an ongoing problem in history, but one major problem Is the discrimination of women, equality in the workforce.dating back hundreds and hundreds of years woman's job were to be a stay at home mom caring for her children and cooking for her husband, or doing his laundry.While men would be the ones working or be the “bread winners” as some people would say.But that was back then, now the woman is working harder or as hard as men do, yet they get paid less than men even if it's the same job at the same place.Studies have shown that woman who goes to the same school, get the same job, and work the same amount as men, get paid less even though they work the same time.Now in a modern era, people are starting to notice this inequality

Gender discrimination in the workplace is a recurring issue in businesses today. Employees are given the right by their employers to be protected from discrimination and inequality in the workplace. In just about every business setting today, men and women work together in the same fields, jobs, and projects. However, it has only been up until (relatively) recently that men and women have been in competition for the same jobs. With the predetermined assumptions of the different roles between both men and women, there can be the tendency to see bias in the workplace. Discrimination can occur in many ways and impact anyone within that organization.

In recent years, the issue of gender equality in the workplace and equal pay has been under serious debate. Although there has been significant improvement since when women were first able to work and equal opportunity laws were created, there is still some room for more improvement. The federal government has made laws over the years such as The Civil Rights act, Equal Pay Act and Family and Medical Leave act, in an attempt to put an end to gender discrimination and although it is working to some extent in lower-management positions, those laws seem to have little effect on the upper-level managerial positions. Recent questions have come up about whether the federal laws are helping enough with the gender wage gap and women representation, along with questions where or not gender discrimination is the reason why women are getting paid less or if there are other underlying factors to consider.

Throughout the years women have made great effort to become equal to men. This effort has led to great advances in the movement, but not all of the problems are solved yet. One of the main problems as of right now is the unequal treatment of men and women in the work place. Women are not equal to men in the workplace because of unequal pay, a lack of women in managerial positions, and sexual harassment in the work place.