Gender Discrimination in the Workplace

Over 27,000 claims filed through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the fiscal year 2013, alleged sex-based discrimination (Sex-Based Charges). Most of these gender related accusations are gender discrimination. Stephanie Sipe and Donna K. Fisher, both professors at Georgia Southern University, and C. Douglas Jonson, a professor at Georgia Gwinnett University, state “Gender discrimination occurs when employers make decisions such as selection, evaluation, promotion, or reward allocation on the basis of an individual’s gender” (Sipe, Johnson, and Fisher 342). Most of the time gender discrimination is subjected towards women in the work field, where women are thought as being lower than males in the same organization. In today’s world, society has come a long way since the general stereotyping of men bringing home the bacon and the women staying home to cook it. Today, women are out in the workplace working alongside the opposite sex. Even though the general feminist stereotype has been extinguished, women are still not promoted as widely as men in the workplace. On the contrary to the first definition of gender discrimination, Julie Walters, an Oakland University professor, and Connie L. McNeely, a George Mason University professor, emphasizes that “even in the 21st century, women faculty members are generally paid less, promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions than their male counterparts, discrepancies that do not appear to be based on productivity or any other objective performance measures” (323). Sex discrimination is easily portrayed in all companies and can be slightly difficult to recognize, however, it still exists. The data shows that women in the workplace are discrimi...

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“Sex-Based Charges”

http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/enforcement/sex.cfm

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