The concept of gender equality and equal opportunity has been debated for decades and been part of the community’s key principle. This essay will be discussing issues on gender inequality and other forms of discrimination in the workplace in Australia concentrating particularly on Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). This essay will also be discussing on what implications have been done by ANZ Bank to solve the discrimination that has been a major concern in not only Australia but also around the world. Australia is ANZ’s largest market through a network of 800 branches, 115 business centres and employing over 47,000 employees with 200 different cultural background worldwide ( ANZ 2014 ). As we could see the different cultural background among the employees, ANZ Bank actually values the diversity in terms of ethnics and cultural backgrounds. Since the olden days, the employment of female in banking industry has been the unfavourite but things have changed since Second World War as more females are involved in banking industry (Crompton 1989 : 144). ANZ Bank and other financial institutions around Australia has been working towards combatting the gender inequality in terms of pay equity, promotions and opportunities to all employees across the organisation. The following content in this essay will discuss 3 main points of discrimination on how and what implication ANZ Bank has done and also financial industry as a whole. The following content will discuss gender equality, employment of indigenous people in banking industry, age discrimination and discrimination against disabilities people.
According to Workplace Gender Equality Agency, ANZ Bank positions itself as a women's employer of choice (ANZ 2014). In fact, 54 pe...
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...e off 55 years of age and they too, provide equal opportunity to the younger generations. Moreover, ANZ Bank has it’s own Disability Action Plan (DAP) aiming to recruit disabilities people into their organisation. By providing disabilities people an equal opportunity, this will also enable them to motivate themselves to improve and in long run it will make Australia a country of fair and equal treatment to every single human. By employing people regardless of gender, cultural differences, age and disabilities will decrease the unemployment rate within the country as well. Therefore through all the points discussed above, ANZ Bank is doing their best to fight against all forms discriminations in the workplace through the implications and plans they have been carried out to ensure an efficient, effective work and management practices as a transnational corporation.
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In Australia, woman continue to be under-represented in workforce participation and senior leadership roles. Women in Australia currently make up 49% of accountants but this seemingly balanced number is not reflecting the same with senior positions as Principals or Partners. This under-representation in the accounting profession continues to be a challenge for the women of Australia. The accounting profession has always been dominated by males that make it difficult for women to progress in their careers. Although technical and professional qualifications of women working in contemporary accounting firms are comparable to men, recognition and success at higher levels of the profession have not benefited women. More women enter the profession as junior accountants or trainees than males, but they tend to depart from the company leaving women with only 19% of senior positions. Challenges that these women face include career advancement paths that tend to be inflexible and have often forced women to resign. The way woman’s performance is evaluated and the substructure in how the organizations are structured continue to be a disadvantage to their career progression. This are reasons that create an absence of women in senior roles which continue to be an ongoing problem in the profession.
While women were able to gain access to this highly male dominated profession, and in some cases they outnumber their male counterparts, researchers agree that women are still facing discriminatory barriers. While discrimination is more subtle nowadays compared to the blatant and stupid style of the recent past (Adcock, 2006) women are still experiencing discrimination which is preventing them from receiving equal pay, thus hindering their progress and altering their career paths. They still face an array of barriers to achieving equality in their careers, including the allocation of work, opportunities for advancement, income differentials...
The institutionalized discrimination of women in the work place is nothing new or unheard of. The brunt of it has happened fairly recently as women began to enter the labor market in force less than a century ago. The affect of this discrimination has had long lasting, generation spanning affects, but as time has passed and feminism spread, the gender-gap has slowly begun to shrink.
Today, women share the same equal rights and opportunities as men; nevertheless, that has not invariably been the case. Before the Jazz Age era, gender discrimination between men and women in society was considerably popular. Women were seen as inferior to men. Their jobs were to care for the home, children, and other domesticated duties while men were able to work, get an education, and become doctors or lawyers. Many women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, Zora Hurston, to mention a few, seen the unfairness in women's rights and fought for equal rights for women through different movements, efforts, protests, and even marches to abolish women’s rights. As a consequence, women now pursue not only higher education and higher paid jobs/ businesses, but their rights. One of the world’s most controversial issues among churches of today is the role of a woman. Many people are confused about the duty of a woman and how she is supposed to serve God because of history. History taught us to never deny someone of gender, race, or even diversity since he or she has human rights. However, this issue should not be viewed as men versus women because this is not a political issue; instead, it should be viewed as the structural of a church. Women should not be priests, pastors, or even rabbis for God condone women for being priests, pastors, and rabbis as well as proscribed.
Laura Bassett, a reporter from the Huffington Post, explains that in today’s society women are paid 77 cents for every dollar that a man earns, resulting in women being paid an average of $37,800 a year compared to men who are paid an average of $49,400 per year in 2012 (Women Still Earned 77 Cents On Men's Dollar In 2012: Report). Also, when a man and a woman apply for the same job, the man will almost always be chosen. This has resulted in the amount of full-time working males increasing by 1 million within a years time, and the number for full-time working women remained nearly the same. To this day, females are not treated equally to males even though almost a century has gone by from 1920 when women gained their deserved suffrage rights and other rights of equivalent importance. Both men and women are standing up to spread the awareness of the meager changes to women’s rights throughout the years. One way to raise awareness is to write a book, and many books have been made about the lack of equality rights for women. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the main character Lily witnesses several equality rights between men and woman in the way that females are treated by males, which has become a major social issue in today’s society.
Women are hindered by a set of guidelines created by today’s society. As an overall sex, they are expected to be gentle, calm, and obedient which consequently leads to women being the oppressed gender. In the 19th century, women 's suffrage did not exist in America and they were not allowed to work. They were only supposed to cook, clean and bear children. The campaigns for women’s suffrage began before the Civil War. Nearly a century later, the 19th Amendment in the Constitution was ratified. In this day and age, women are learning to fight back in order to gain equal rights in every aspect including political, economic, cultural as well as the social aspect. Despite the feminist movements to encourage these ideologies, there are still gender
Women face discrimination in the workplace. Nowadays, the gender inequality is a main problem in the workplace and society. It has been proved that working women earn less than men due to discrimination of class, race, and culture. Women should have the same opportunities as men. In fact, working women tend to be poorer, unhealthier, and less secure. It is important to stop all forms of discrimination against women and girl children and create more programs to help the affected victims.
Seeking equality and the same chances for both genders is a must, to attain equal opportunities. Gender discrimination was a main factor, in the past females was known to only be plain housewives and that they don’t have the eq...
For many years, it has been apparent that men and women are treated unequally in the work field. Men are commonly seen to be chosen over a women for promotions and job hiring; nonetheless, it has been said that women and men both bring different characteristics to the workplace that are great for business when combined. Not only women believe this inequality is unfair, but there has also been men to say this as well.
My hypothesis was that higher gender equality would correlate with higher levels of reproductive rights for women. Looking at the statistics, Chile has better overall political empowerment for women (using the GGR rankings Chile ranks 34th compared to Uruguay’s 112th position) and it scores better in every single criterion that make up the category. According to my hypothesis, this higher political empowerment of women should have translated into higher levels of reproductive rights, but that is not the case. Uruguay has much more liberal abortion laws then Chile even though, by the GEI and GGP rankings the country does not have as high a level of political empowerment. One explanation for this disparity can be explained by Asal et al. He points
What if women did not have the same rights as everyone else? What if there was a stereotype that women had to follow? Should a wife stay at home and take care of the children while her husband is out there working? These are all questions that women asked during the women’s Suffrage Movement. At the beginning of this movement, women did not have the same rights as their husbands or other men. Ladies had to follow a stereotype of being a teacher or nurse and once married staying home, taking care of the children and keeping the home in order while their husbands went to work. But as women began to breakout of their stereotypical shells, the world began to slowly accept that women and their environment were changing.
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The idea of separate sexes has been around since humans began constructing civilizations and has progressively worsened over time. The world has mostly consisted of patriarchal institutions since then, and has oppressed women in the sense that they are less than men in status and civility. Because of this women are forced to take on specific [often times inferior]roles in society, many of those roles being; taking care of the homestead, child care, and maintaining a kosher dwelling while men assume the more prestigious occupations. “A son in all sorts of trouble finally seeks out his father for advice during a particularly bad crisis. But when he finds his father wearing an apron while washing dishes in the kitchen, the son recoils in disgust… The parents of an 18-year-old girl describe their fear that their daughter will be an old maid because she is so terribly bright and independent. They decide that the mother will have a “talk with her” (“Changing Gender Norms” Eliman-Taggart)” An analogous philosophy is introduced in the novel A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. In the series, Arya, daughter of Lord Eddard Stark has grown up along with her brothers who trained in the art of swordplay and her sister who was training to become a lady. Despite constant reprimanding, Arya dejected the concept of evolving into a lady and aspired to become a knight alongside her brothers. She is mocked throughout the story for her “boyish” manner. She is surprisingly encouraged by her father to pursue what she wants regardless of what is seen as socially acceptable behaviour for a girl.
Equality is a concept mankind never is able to grasp correctly. Of course humans will always search for different solutions to create fairness, but factors such as human greed, ignorance of mass populations, and even biological aspects stagnates the process of equality. The oldest and most relevant discussion on equality lies with the difference of sex; man versus woman. Initially, men, because of their physical superiority, were given the prospects many women never even dreamt to have. Conversely, as time has progressed, women have fought this unfair treatment with demands of suffrage and similar rights to those of their male equivalents. Greatly enough, this generation has done an exceptional job in the challenge of overcoming sexism and inequality. However, will this search for equality ever end? When can we say we have created an equal race of men and women? The fact of the matter is that it is truly impossible to have equality between the sexes because of predisposed circumstances that are not easily controllable in the slightest bit.