Gender bias in the workplace Natalie Brown Bryant & Stratton College SOSC 102: Principles of Sociology Annetta Gad July 15, 2012 Abstract Women are represented as being underneath men in an organizational hierarchy. They do not earn as much money as their male counterparts, even though they may work as hard. Gender bias does exist in the workplace. It is the main cause for women not being able to break that invisible barrier, which keeps them from reaching senior levels. A woman can have the same degree as a man but will not be offered the same job as him, simply because of her sex.
1 Women’s lives after the two world wars changed, but there is some debate as to how much it changed. Their lives changed politically, with women gaining the vote, they changed in terms of employment, as they were now permitted to join certain professions and they also changed socially as a better way of living was set out for them. It is argued that women were given greater opportunities after the wars due to their exceptional participation on the home front. However, many historians believe that this change in women’s lives was simply due to the changing times and the progression in society. The historical debate surrounding this topic is wether women’s lives really did change greatly after the two world wars, or wether their lives simply went back to the way they were before the war started.
Women’s Obstacles in the Business World In the business world there are many obstacles that men and women have yet to face. Overall, women have a lot more that stands on their way to get to the top of the career ladder. Women tend to have less confidence then men in the business world. Also taking on the first before the opportunity is no longer available and speaking up for them and taking the lead more in the work world. All of these situations stem from the lack of confidence that most women have in the business world.
Women were lower paid and were restricted to do less skilled work, as they were considered incompetent. Working class women also worked in the trades producing hats and constructing dresses. So when the soldiers went out to fight how was left to do the men’s jobs? The women started assuming the positions that men usually held, and they liked it. Women wanted the same working rights as men, and they fought hard for it.
However, there were significant differences between the female classes especially where the working class women were concerned. The position of working class women remained largely unchanged; they were generally employed in unskilled and very low paid jobs. ‘Despite a number of trade union and government attempts to improve wages, and working conditions, working class women remained at the bottom of the economic scale’ and thus remained there for some years to come.’ (Bartley.P 1998 p.3) It could be argued that The Reform Act of 1866, also known as The Household Franchise Bill, sparked a popular debate, causing public
Media is how we change the view of the world and when women are constantly generalized and understated as such, not only are the women who are in the entertainment industry are affected, but so is the way the society looks at women is. Tokenism is the insincere effort of recruiting people from underrepresented groups to be perceived racially or sexually equal. Tokenism is seen mainly in the workspace and is an issue that women have to deal with ever since they started working in jobs that were male-dominated or jobs that were expected to be done by men not women. ‘’Denial of the relevance of gender to opportunity, aspiration, and achievement is commonplace in members of both classes. Nevertheless, gender-class membership is profoundly consequential in social life.
Women as leaders: An emergence to be recognized Abstract: In a constantly growing society, the issue of leadership opportunities is a hard one to tackle. These days, many women have trouble feeling equality in the career and leadership world. Are the barriers women feel against them due to society’s views? In this paper I will define the problem of women’s leadership barriers, discuss the argument for and against the idea that society has caused this, and present a conclusion on the issue. Intro: Women leadership.
The sociological theory looks at socialization and how this contributes to females behaving in certain ways. In the world women experience things differently than men, this is true but I believe that it is because of how women experience society pushes them towards crime. Women get paid differently; opportunities for jobs, their expected roles in society, and these do put different stresses on women that men do not experience. When women are not even able to obtain the same job or pay as men this leads to a strain, even if women are just as educated or capable of doing the job there are just some jobs that pay more that women don’t get the opportunity for to even be hired because it may be stigmatized as a man’s job. When society holds standards to women and these women do not meet these standards this can also push them to act out and not conform to society, since they were unable to achieve “normalcy.” It is stereotyped even still that women are supposed to be in jobs that fit women, they are to take care of the house and children, while still meeting the needs of everyone.
Wage gap is seen throughout history as a negative aspect as most individuals would think that women work as much as men, maybe even more, yet tend to have a lower salary and worse living conditions. Most of the community however never thought about why wage gap is a good thing but rather accuse firms and governments by pointing out sexism and the suffering of women worldwide. Many studies on the gender wage gap tended to focus on whether sexism is the reason for the wage gap, or if the gap is driven predominantly by the difference between both genders’ human capital attainment.
While equality as a general rule has become more prevalent in society there are still stereotypes that women are encouraged to follow. These stereotypes can stunt the social developmental growth of women. Still to this day women are considered the main caregivers in households and are frowned upon when this does not always prove to be the case. There are also still many stereotypes concerning how a woman should dress, look, and the jobs that they should hold in society. This thinking has caused much heartache for young women across the world and could be rectified by further studying the differences between men’s and women’s social development.