Description
Over half of the world’s population is female, and as gender construct is a socially rather than physiologically determined concept, discrimination against them is common.[1] Employers and coworkers may be the source of discrimination in the workplace. Gender discrimination comes in many forms, such as sexual harassment, pay disparities between the sexes, and gender inequality. Workplace gender discrimination arises from a variety of factors, some of which are significant and include the gender pay gap, women’s limited career advancement opportunities, playing multiple roles for lower pay, gender stereotyping for higher managerial positions in business organizations, sexual harassment, and job insecurity. Low productivity, low efficiency, and a lack of motivation among staff members are possible outcomes of workplace gender discrimination.[2] The century-old tendency to designate men as suited for the workplace and women as suited for the home is still present in the older beliefs of seeing women as a typical maternal wall, ideal worker, and ideal homemaker.[3] Employers in the past have been free to refuse to recruit single women of “marriageable age,” fire women after they got married (because it was their husband’s responsibility to provide for the family and not them), and refuse to hire married women because they believe in these glaringly different preconceptions.[4] Each person has different gender roles and stereotypes for men and women, depending on how gender socialization has been taught to them from their parents, how they feel about the division of housework, and/or how they feel about people of the other sex.[4] It is essential to look at the numerous forms of discrimination prevailing in the workplace when it comes to women. Even though we are headed toward progress, women face particular challenges in their professional work.
Source
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11784698
Language
English
Authors
Jyoti Prakash et al.
Publisher
National Library of Medicine
Date
2024
