Discrimination against Women in the Workplace
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Discrimination against women in the workplace is exhibited in a variety of ways, ranging from the sexual harassment to the exclusion of women from "the old boys' club" where major decisions are made. Thus, in spite of the massive entry of women in the workplace and the increasing numbers of women in mid-level managerial positions, top-level positions remain as elusive to women today as they were more than a decade ago. Working in a world dominated by male decision-makers and their established practices, women encounter a variety of barriers impeding their surge to the top of their careers. Few women have managed to shatter the "glass ceiling"ùthe concept used to describe the barriers blocking women from top-level positions. The effects of the discrimination on women are manifested in the erosion of their identity and the desexualization of successful women in order to "fit in" with their male counterparts. The psychological effects of discrimination on individual women have serious sociological repercussions: women with feminine attributes leave their work, leaving desexualized women to serve as role models for female newcomers, thus perpetuating the cycle of male domination and discrimination. In this paper, the causes of the different types of discrimination will be explored. Unconscious discrimination and its effects on both men and women will also be discussion. Furthermore, the detrimental effects on the women caused by discrimination will also analyzed, highlighting
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less, for many women, the family factor plays a significant role in affecting their climb to the top position in the union, a phenomenon that mirrors the plight of women in the workplace. In a study conducted in the mid-80s, it was found that the barriers faced by more than half of the female respondents were family-related. The primary reason was "home responsibilities" (Elkiss 31). Women are burdened with two jobs, dividing their waking hours between the household and the workplace without any respite and adequate sleep (Schor 20). Schor also found that the amount of work done by an average housewife has remained steady at 52 hours per week since 1910 (86). The reasons can be attributed to the rising expectations of levels of cleanliness of clothing and the household with the advent of new products. Before the invention of electric washer, washing occurred only once a month; nowadays, clothes are washed once a week. In addition, the modern standards of cleanliness also led to the increased use of a wide array of products to clean the house, such as vacuuming, dusting, waxing and polishing (Schor 89). Even with increased participation of women in the workforce, sixty-six percent of women who work still do the majority of the hous
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Approximate Pages = 19 (250 words per page)
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