Victimization of Working Women

Introduction

Victimization can occurs with anyone, but women in the workforce are extremely vulnerable to being victimized in their place of employment. An increase of employed women has lead to large pitfall for them. Unfortunately, women lack workplace protection, often being employed to jobs with no benefits and without a union. In turn, women are often exposed to many types of violence such as predatory, situational and various types of abuse. Predatory violence is often done with intent while situational violence often occurs due to the nature of the environment. For instance, people who work late at night, with different people at unknown locations. Women account for 47 percent of the labour force, yet are much more likely to work part time or precarious work compared to their male counterpart. Shockingly, women make 84 percent of the hourly wage of men, and racialized women make far less than a Canadian educated women regardless of their level of education (CRIAW/ICREF, 20120).

Thus, feminist have aimed to increase the wellbeing of individuals and created the concept of intersectionality. Intersectionality illustrates that there are multiple types of oppression that must be examined together one simply cannot be examined to explain the situation. Originally intersectionality was used within black feminism to describe the oppression within race and gender. As it expanded this theory shows interlocks between many different institutions of oppression such as race, class and gender, ability, sexual orientation that all come together to create social inequalities. Intersectionality is simply not restricted to one factor that oppresses women but rather a set of oppressions that intersect and interlock. For example, an Afr...

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...tion programs, and provide more training for security guards are well as workshops for nurses. This could be implanted in all hospitals making in a job requirement. Thus, having these types of training programs would allow for nurses to feel more confident in their role as a caregiver and allow them fully utilize their skills when working with patients. Also, if patients were aware that nurses received this training they would be less inclined assume authority over their caregiver. To avoid conflict within the nursing profession we must make people aware of what is happening behind closed doors and prepare the professionals to act in response to violence. If nurses continue to be known as vulnerable and accept the violence which is perpetrated towards them, the gender script will not disappear and will continue to progress into a violence workplace environment.