Gender Diversity And Gender Discrimination

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

This myth has been perpetuated throughout history and in result; we have barriers such as the glass ceiling in existence. If we were to pull up a list of the Board of Directors for any given company, the probability of it being a predominately male group is high. This notion alone shows how companies have continued to dwell in olds days where men are considered more capable than women. The Glass ceiling effect has continued to place barriers against women endeavor in achieving success in their careers and participation in their work place. Women have not been able to realize their potential in their work places since they are not offered equal chances as compared to their men counterparts who enjoy great opportunities in organizations. The fact that an organization is ran by men, may cause an adverse effect on the performance of men. Obviously, a man thinks differently than a woman. It is likely that a decision made by men only is likely to ignore the interests of women in the organization. This creates a domino effect because it affects the woman’s performance in business since they only get limited chances to learn, and limited job assignments that will enhance their skills. Hence, low or limited skills and experience will lower their overall

“Frailty, thy name is woman.”(Hamlet) is a statement that Shakespeare must have made in a weak moment. However, since Shakespeare’s times, people have slowly begun to understand the importance of the role of women in society. During World War I, women entered the work force due to the shortage of men. Ever since this phenomenon, there has been a significant change in the number of women in the work force. However, this does not discount the fact that women are still subject to gender discrimination, lower salaries, and lack of respect in the professional industry. Improvements to the equality system have been made, but the problem is far from being fixed. Though the number of women joining the work force is increasing, the level equality between the two genders in the workplace seems to be far from perfect in many different ways. There are many different reasons as to why inequality exists in spite of an equal ratio of women to men in today’s work force,

Gender bias, also known as sexism, is a full of attitudes, laws, taboos, preferences, and behaviors that differentiates and discriminates against either sex. These may be a position of which male dominance and female subjugation in the modern society. It could also be a form of sexual stereotypes between men and women, these are commonly experienced in employment versus other positions. A final place that discrimination is faced is the academic environment, the female to male ratios are not in sync in certain programs and courses because of this and it is pressuring men and women to not go into certain fields and do what they love and please. Most advertisements on Television, magazines, newspapers, online ad’s, use a charged sexually image with a female as the star. Women are to be a pleasure for men, and nothing else. Many people have different opinions on genders and sexuality and that is okay, but sometimes you just need to keep them to yourselves.

In the recent years, many women have made progress in obtaining jobs as CEO’s of major companies, hold seats on the board of directors, and many other high profile positions however, the percentage of women and minorities that hold these positions are very low in comparison to males hence, the glass ceiling remains. The term Glass Ceiling is the “unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rings of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements” (Glass Ceiling Commission, 1995). Stereotypes and biases have created an image that women are not capable of effectively filling the role of managerial jobs. In 1995, Glass Ceiling Commission noted that women filled only 3 to

Research on networking shows that women are less likely to choose partners with power and authority (Ibarra, 1992, 1993; McGuire, 2000). Lyness and Thompson (2000) found that both genders report different social and professional experiences in reaching top management. This study represents how gender stereotyping affects the women of the workplace and their struggle to reach upper management. Overall trying to bring awareness of gender stereotypes that are not being taken seriously.

Sexism has been a problem since the existence of man and woman. It brings on the controversial issue of men and women, and how they are not considered equal in society. There are many different perspectives on sexism and whether or not it still exists. Feminist writers such as Daly, Frye, and Millett all stress the way in which women have been subject to the power of men and how the female self is ‘invaded’ by patriarchal conditioning. Frye, in particular, has a strong opinion on the issue. As Jean Grimshaw states in her article, Autonomy and Identity in Feminist Thinking, “Frye sees women as simply ‘broken’ and then ‘remade’ in the way that suits their masters.”

In the technology field, there is a constant change in the different technological advancements and discoveries. Within that field though there is a problem, out of all the jobs that the entire tech field can offer, only twenty-six percent of them are filled by women. The number of women in the tech field is extremely low. Men have most the jobs and high ranking positions, compared to the few women that do. This problem is something that could easily be fixed, but there is not enough public knowledge about what all the tech field has to offer. The stereotype that men should be the only ones that work in the world of computers is something that needs to be broken. Women have the same abilities that men do and should be given an equal opportunity

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, diversity is defined as ‘the state of having people who are different races or who have different cultures in a group or organization. We live in a time of advanced technology, more rights and opportunities, and larger populations of minorities living in United States. Yet, we haven’t completed moved forward from the days of slavery and inequality of minorities and women. Why must anyone, especially a complete stranger dictate who is better?

When looking at the statistics of women in the workforce, there are 57% of women working in professional occupations and only 25% of women working in computing occupations (Ashcraft et al. 2016). In addition, fewer women hold positions in software development or technological leadership. Therefore, men tend to be the prime community working on future innovations. From 1980 to 2010, 88% of all information technology patents are from male-only teams while women-only teams hold 2% of the patents (Ashcraft et al., 2016). In addition to women being underrepresented in leadership roles, it was also found that women made 61% less than men. This means that women have to work an extra five months to make the same amount as men in the same job and company (Aragon and Ashbaugh, 2015). After Damore’s memo came out, it upset many women working at Google. Lauren, a Google product designer whose last name was not included, argues that while Damore’s memo sparked important conversations within Google, it felt as an attack on powerful women (Kovach, 2017). Regarding Damore’s firing, Lauren explains, “If we don’t fire him, what message does that send to all women in Google? That it’s acceptable to alienate all the women at Google and say that they don’t deserve to be here?” (Kovach,

Why are there just men and a low percentage of women work in the science, engineer and technology industry? Why most of the jobs for women are the low wage jobs? Why in the job description which might suitable for women but more men are hired than women? Why do women have less confident on achieving a higher position in management’s board? Thus, gender diversity is not the abnormal topic these days. Gender diversity has largely been conceptualized and research in many countries. This is the issue not only in society but especially in the workplace. Despite, there are many initiatives such as from organizations through voluntary approaches, or from the government through legislation or regulation to encourage the gender diversity in the business world. The fact that the proportion of women in chief executives is only 17% in Australia in 2015 but in some industries, the percentage is extremely deplorable. There are significant disadvantages for women in the workplace. The biggest barrier to women in top management levels is most of the members of corporate boards are male and they tend to select male rather than female at promotion time. Many debates showed that the glass ceiling is still an invisible barrier to prevent women to develop or promote their career. Some argued that whether the pendulum has swung too far towards to female equality and leads to the new

Our social justice issue is gender discrimination. Gender Discrimination is a major thing going on in our world today. Therefore, gender discrimination happens in things such as sports, education, health, employment, laws, and in different countries. Gender discrimination was a major thing in the past, and is still a major thing today. Men continually think women are weak, and so women are targeted more in crimes. They also think that women won't stand up for themselves, and women continually let men bring them down because they aren't brave enough. In jobs they believe women won't work, and that women aren't capable enough to do the job, so women end up getting paid less or have to work ridiculously short hours. Today in our century, women are targeted more than men because they are considered weak. Being labeled weak makes women are more vulnerable to at least one form of abuse. 1 in 3 women are abused in some form at a time of their life by a man. Women are targeted for crimes, such as home break-ins, because if they live on their own, they are thought to not be able to defend themselves that well. Women are also being killed all the time. In India, women are burned to death if they can't meet financial requirements, while men aren't. In Egypt, women are killed if they do something considered unclean in their family or outside their family. In South Asia more than 2 million baby girls are killed or abandoned to die because they are considered a financial burden to the

In a world that has grown increasingly smaller due to mass media, world travel, and readily available information, the workplace has grown increasingly diverse in both gender and cultural aspects. Individuals no longer live and work within the confines of their geographic locations. At almost any position with any company the individual employee is a part of a larger world economy that harvests assets from the ends of the earth. Because of this, companies seek to capitalize on diversity to become more creative and flexible in their business models.

The increase of the number of women entering the workplace, especially those issued from higher education has resulted in a movement of change within businesses,

Gender discrimination against women is out of control across the world and seeps into many aspects of women 's lives. This discrimination harms women in two ways. First, women directly experience stressful events. The experience of sexism is so common that some research suggests women can experience one to two instances of everyday sexism. But women aren 't only harmed by sexism through the physical stress caused by others. They are harmed to the extent that they internalize and adopt these sexist attitudes that can manifest as poor self-concept. This negative self-concept often obvious on a subconscious level, as women and men will demonstrate automatic negative biases against women (Ferguson, 2013).