I am a woman. It is something that I cannot change. In "The Gravity of Pink," Eden Abigail Trooboff writes that women struggle to find an identity in the world. She describes her own experiences, which she encountered as a woman. I also have my own share of experiences. Over the past several decades, women have succeeded in conquering some of the barriers in the workplace. Equal pay has been the law since l963, but women are still paid less then men, even when they have similar education, skills, and experience. In 1998, women were only earning 73 cents for every dollar earned by men. Over a lifetime, this can add up to a loss of thousands of dollars. (www.aflcio.org/women/equalpay.htm) Even though I am only eighteen, I have already experienced such limitations in my life. An example of this would be during my senior year of high school where I worked part-time at a convenience store. Among the high school students working there, two were female and three were males. Although my boss was a woman, she still favored the males, even though the female workers were more reliable and hard working. The women did more than their share of the work while the males were allowed to slack off and lacked dependability. My boss's attitude toward the female workers angered me, but I remained quiet. Trooboff states “Women are bound together psychologically…I find my femininity wrapped in vulnerability.” I also felt I was in a very vulnerable position. I was afraid to speak out for fear I would lose my job or would not be given a favorable reference when I resigned at the end of the summer. One year after being employed at the store, I was still receiving minimum wage and was not expecting a raise. My boss was hiring new employees and, of course, the first one she hired was a male. At the time, I was being paid $5.25 per hour, but the new male employee was given $5.35 per hour and had no previous experience. My fellow female employee and I were outraged. We wrote our boss a letter explaining our feelings and spoke with her personally about the discrepancy in wages. However, she refused to change the pay scale and we continued to work at a lesser rate, even though we had been employed for a full year. Three out of four women are now employed in the workplace.
regarding pay and promotion. Women employees sued for equal pay they also want to be
Once I worked for a small manufacturing firm that employed an unusually diverse mix of genders and minorities for a Midwestern company. Just before my employment, a consulting management firm’s contract had recently completed to address infighting among departments. The president of the company, who I will call Carol, had taken over leadership when her father retired. She had an undergraduate degree in human resources and lifetime exposure to running the business. Carol cared about the well-being of employees, although her management skills were questionable at times. Carol was under age forty, married with young children, attractive and athletic, and she dressed in a casual way neither hiding nor flaunting her sexuality.
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The issue of equal pay between genders is still a problem in today’s society. Not to mention the argument of equal pay between genders of different ethnicities and minorities. A white man no matter his age, is unfairly paid more than a black or Mexican man. As well as a white woman can be paid more than both a black or Mexican man, and her ethnic female colleagues. Women of color are paid less than their male counterpart, not to mention the gaping wide wage gap between women of color and a white man. The many factors leading into why the wage gap exists or still exists is that men are stronger, and deserve bigger salaries. This is the main idea of sexism, and that women should earn less than men. When in some
Organizations and managing labor relations are two complex aspects of our daily functioning environment. Throughout the years it’s been evident that times have very much changed; in day to day life one can easily notice a rise in the number of women who have gotten to work, across divisions on a global scale. Yet despite their pursuit of high standards of education and occupational skills, they are still lagging behind in the corporate world, the reason being – discrimination. Discrimination against women at work has different aspects; unequal pay, undermined skill set, segregation in certain divisions and jobs, the work and home balance along with sexual harassment are just some of the issues at hand. Although in current times there are still cases of discrimination and unjust treatment towards women, the start to this begins many decades back.
Gender discrimination in the workplace is something that both men and women experience, women more than men. For instance, the current gender pat gap is 21 percent. This means that women are currently making 21 percent less than what their male counterparts are making. It has decreased over the years, but it is still a significant gap. In the workplace, women do not only experience discrimination in pay, but also in opportunities. An article states that, women are deemed less communal than men and that makes them less suited for certain careers (Miner, et. al, 2014). This thought alone puts women at a disadvantage when they are entering the labor force.
In 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, making it unlawful to discriminate against a worker on the basis of sex. Since that time, the wage gap between men and women in the United States has narrowed by just 15 cents, now being 74 cents, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Growing up the only girl with six brothers I experienced gender discrimination. I was treated differently and more unfairly than my brothers. As an adult, I was subjected to sexual jokes, harassment, and innuendo. People have implied I could not do things because of my gender. This impacted me negatively by preventing me from attempting certain things in life.
Discrimination at work is a touchy issue. Most people, if not all, have experienced some sort or form of it and they ignored it, quit, or got fired from their job. Women tend to be more emotional than men and when women are judged and discriminated they are offended by it immediately. Also, the fact of women getting a lower income than men for the same job is almost unbelievable. It is very important to be concerned on the issue because it is constantly increasing throughout the United States. It upsets me that women are paid less than men because women have the same ability and work ethic as men do, but they are looked at differently. According to AAUW, women are making 77 percent of what men make. This rate hasn’t changed since 2002 (Hill, 2013). Statistics show that women will never make as much as men due to the thought of never being comparable to men (Williams, 2013).
In addition, women are paid less than men for the same type of work. According to Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg mentions that women were paid fifty-nine cents for every dollar men were paid in 1996, but women protested to raise the compensation to seventy-seven cents (6). This means that even though a woman and a man perform the same work such as an engineer does, both do the same assignments and have the same responsibilities in the technology place, men are paid twenty three cents more than women. Moreover, women suffer from “gender discount” which means women have to pay for being part of the workplace or society ...
Women’s right to equal pay or gender pay gap has been a subject of discussion over the years in the united states, women perform similar jobs to men, but are paid
On January 5th of last year, I was sent home early from work by my manager. I had been
Such as many women couldn’t get cash rewards, month or year of the employee award, and other benefits, however their male coworker receive all of these.
There are many different ways in which women are discriminated against in the workplace. The exclusion of women altogether solely due to their gender is a now rare example of how women are discriminated against. Although women have gained overall access to the workplace, sex discrimination still persists in additional ways. There multiple examples of potentially unlawful gender discrimination that women face. Hiring and firing are the first two problems women often face within the workplace. An example of this is woman applying for a job in which they have experience and excellent qualifications, but are not hired because some of the company's clients are more comfortable dealing with men. Woman often get told that they are laid off or fired due to company cutbacks and reorganization, even though a man in the same job with less seniority than the woman gets to keep the job.
Throughout the interview, Both of my interviewers explained to me how effective gender and workplace can affect a person, and this was the part of the interview I found most surprising. Both party 's said that the more discriminated they were helped them work harder. I mentioned I thought this was what people experience when they both want a higher position at work, and both said it can be very challenging to move up when you 're affected by discrimination, and that the main focus with moving up in a higher position is having a positive attitude and overlooking