Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Workplaces

Gender Discrimination in the Workforce Although gender roles have changed over time, a certain label of behaviors and tasks which are designated for men and women specifically still exist today. Some of the labels of behavior that can be found today are the expectations that society has for both women and men. People still feel that women are the ones who should be taking care of everything at home, such as cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids, while the husband goes to work. Although women have more power in the workforce, and more men can be found taking over the role by being at their homes, there are still social expectations that displays what it means to be male or female.”Due to how the discrimination of gender and disabilities

However it is our society’s reality. Even if the statement above were to be applied to everyone, both male and female how about the world’s point of view on women? Clearly women have made tremendous differences regarding equality in recent decades however; we still live in a society in which the worth of women is solely based on physical appearance and not their own special skills that can be portrayed in the work force. But the fact that they are not even given a chance to do so is just unfair. Also because the women look a certain way, the employers of the big companies use that to calculate how much they get paid, whether they are a full-time worker, part-time worker, or temporary worker, no matter what they are still being paid less than the men. Gender discrimination in the workplace continues to be a major problem in the workplace despite new laws being passed in recent years, such as the Title VII or the Equal Pay Act, which were passed to protect the women from being sexually harassed or being mistreated because they were women or were from a certain family/cultural