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Gender Discrimination

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Gender Discrimination

Introduction

Gender Discrimination is the sort of segregation that occurs due to the gender of an

individual or a group of people. Normally ladies are dealt with distinctively, unequally and

inconsistently than men in their education, monetary progression, profession, and political

impacts (Permanyer, 2013). It is a common kind of segregation that is occurring all through the

world, even in the developed nations. The subject of concern is the reason as to why this

segregation occurs.

The main cause is by all accounts the culture and the way of life of people. It is through

culture that we come to know who people are and what sort of relationship the two have with one

another. As indicated by culture, a woman's duties responsibilities and work is her home and the

work of a man is the community (Berlant, 2014). Not only are women considered to be

physically weak, but they also are considered to be frail in almost everything in comparison to

men. Due to that men are often considered stronger and better than women. Contrariwise, gender

discrimination also occurs to men, especially due to the expectations placed by society, which

prevents men from showing any type of weakness thus putting them in situations that surpass

their capabilities in society.

The Gender discrimination can be evident in the education al sector, employment, and

remunerations. Gender based discrimination exists in a different types of ways. Thus, the most

regular sorts that we experience on a regular basis are gender based discrimination in careers and

education.

Gender discrimination is evident in Educational institutions especially among women.

This type of discrimination often affects women. This mainly occurs because women are dealt

with unequally when it is matter of affirmations, enlistment, budgetary guide, reviewing,

lodging, and homeroom task, decisions of academic programs, direction, scholastic projects,

professional training, and control (Cooray, 2011). This type of segregation also affects men as

they are expected to choose challenging courses by society thus preventing them from taking part

in educational programs they may desire.

Gender discrimination in employment is also a factor of consideration. This is a

significant issue women need to look at in workplaces. They are denied of the fundamental rights

at work and frequently badgering or harassed by the associates. Due to their gender, they are not

allotted jobs which they can do (Blau & Kahn, 2007). Moreover, even managers here and there

treat ladies unreasonably. In numerous working environments, ladies are a minority. In this way,

females are consistently under the weight from the workplace. At times, even clients focus on the

female workers.

Salary Discrimination take place in various human resource departments and thus a need

for consideration in the modern social revolution. There have been numerous circumstances in

which people play out a similar kind of work and they presumably have similar instruction as

well, yet at the same time managers don't give equivalent wages due to gender (Blau & Kahn,

2007). This distinction is only a direct result of gender disparity.

Additionally, gender discrimination is evident in Maternity and expectation periods. This type of

discrimination mostly affects women. In the event that a lady is pregnant, a few managers don't

prefer to talk with them. Numerous females at their work environment conceal their pregnancy

on account of the dread of getting terminated. Some of the time, they are even downgraded.

Effects of Gender Discrimination to

Social Relationship

Social relation is a genre that involves interactions between different people. Gender inequality

leads to disrespect between people especially towards women as they are regarded to as an

inferior gender. Due to this biasness, a woman’s opinion on any matter of discussion may be

easily dismissed. Most people often believe that women are less intelligent beings than men and

due to this, they may have poor relations and discussions because their opinion is not taken

seriously.

Similarly, due to gender discrimination men are expected to be more intelligence as there is an

assumption passed over generations that men are more educated and intellects. This affects their

interactions as they receive more judgment when giving facts that do not align with what most

people believe. Due to their expected masculinity, men mostly have discussions over issues such

as sports, which brings about judgement when a man is interested in sports such as ballet. They

therefore have only have discussions on topics that are viewed as masculine enough to be

acceptable in society.

Life

Gender discrimination leads to several severe effects. Firstly, it causes low literacy levels. This

mainly affects women especially in third world countries where they are required to stay at home

do chores and as soon as they reach a specific age they are forced to get married and bear
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children without a chance of going to school. This affects their lives because they lack the

chance to explore beyond the norms and customs that treat women unfairly. It also affects

people’s lives through causing unstable and violent relationships. This is because it leads to one

gender thinking it is better than the other which leads to constant disagreements and lack of a

peaceful life.

Self-esteem and confidence

According to research aimed to investigated the effects of gender segregation to self confidence

levels high sex recognized ladies made more segregation attributions than low distinguished

ladies when situational bias signs were ambiguous, yet not when bias prompts were missing or

unmistakable. Additionally the research showed that, ladies presented to unmistakable bias signs

had higher confidence than those presented no bias prompts. The connection between separation

attributions and confidence was positive among ladies presented to clear bias yet negative among

those presented to no bias. Across different conditions, the more that women's negative criticism

due to the assumption that they have discounted abilities, the higher their confidence.

Work

Discrimination is a type of harassment and it has led to increased conflict in the workplace. It

also leads to decreased morale because it may cause different people the exact same work at

similar hours to earn different wages solely based on their gender. It may also cause division at

work whereby people have hatred towards each other and divide themselves into groups. This is

dangerous for a business because a divided team may lead to failure of achieving the company's

objectives. Gender discrimination also causes less productivity as people lack motivation to work

in an environment that gives negative criticism.

Samples of gender discrimination at work.

 Unequal Pay: Regardless of the presence of laws to ensure payment equality, gender

based wage segregation is still common (Platt, 2016). In spite of working in a similar

field, with similar obligations, and with a similar measure of work experience women

often get lower salaries.

 Maternity bias: In workplaces, women often get discriminated against due to maternity

reasons as employers do not like employing pregnant women as they have to offer

maternity leaves. During interviews employers often enquire if the women interviewees

are pregnant or they have children then base their decisions based on their answers

(Adesoye, 2017)

 Promotional bias: There are different reasons behind professional bias and bearing

children is the principle one. A man and woman may hold precisely the same position

and play out similar obligations inside an organization, yet the male easily qualifies for

raises or advancements, and may get different executive positions for the same job and

thus get a quicker career advancement than his female colleagues (Bohnet, 2016).

Samples of gender discrimination in education

 Educational wise girls experience discrimination at schools which affects their education.

For instance girls have limited opportunities in schools, as they cannot participate in

some sports or contests because of the gender requirements in the exercises (Costello,

2014). During science projects, girls are often picked out of groups as they are often

viewed as less intelligent.

 Secondly girls face discrimination when choosing which career subjects they may

choose. According to research, most girls are often choose humanities or languages and

are often intimidated by subjects such as math and physics. This occurs because of the

segregation that tends to factor boys learning math based subjects as opposed to women.

 Thirdly girls are often harassed at school. According to most research, in schools, women

face a higher chance of being unsafe in schools or facing harassment in comparison to

boys. They are at the risk of being harassed by not only their teachers, but also their

fellow students.

 In some countries third world countries women also face a challenge of being denied

access to education. According to research, they are often faced by responsibilities at

home which prevents them from taking part in any educational activities.

Gender Discrimination in the Military

 In the military, women are faced with discrimination in various ways especially in the

recruitment process (Obradovic, 2016). The marine, for instance, is commonly faced with

the challenge of having few female recruits as most women are not deemed fit or

aggressive enough to take part in military roles.

 Secondly women are faced with challenges of only being offered on the bench jobs and

hardly are they field agents. Military jobs are mostly associated with aggression and

masculinity which are factors associated with men, this leading to women being left out

in opportunities in the military. Jobs which involve field working the military are off

limits for women due to their physical appearance, maternity issues, or the believe that

they lack enough courage.

 Additionally gender biasness presumes that all men posses a particular trait, which makes

them more suitable for military jobs, and all women have similar traits. Contrary to this,

some men may lack this traits,while some women have the traits, this hence makes it

unfair to enroll most men in the military based on gender.

Gender Discrimination in houses.

 Gender Discrimination is a major factor that affects most homes. For instance, in

most cases, men are often the bread winners of their homes while women are often

given the responsibility of taking care of their husbands and children and cleaning

(Amini, 2012).

 Gender roles cause discrimination as they affect and prevent women from pursuing

careers as they are burdened with the responsibility of being caretakers. Similarly

men are often burdened with the task of finding economic stability in order as it is

their responsibility to cater for their families.

Reflection

Gender Discrimination is one of the largest factors affecting the progress of

nations both developing and fist world countries. From this paper, and research, I think

that it is unfair that gender is a determining factor in the lives of people. It not only

causes the economical strain of a country, but it also causes affects social relations of

people. In jobs, for example, offering similar wages to people pursuing the same career or

doing the same job, with similar working hours irrespective of their gender. I also think

that it would be fair to ensure that in people's homes, women and men have freedom of
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choice to decide whether a woman may choose to concentrate on her career as opposed to

staying at home and raising children.

In the military, I think that training should be done throughougly to ensure that

everyone who is enrolled is capable of handling the job responsibilities that come along

with the job. They should also ensure that more women are enrolled in these programs

because it is unfair to assume that all women have similar qualities such as emotional

vulnerability, or general frailness, which are factors that lead to poor military personnel.

Instead it is important to acknowledge that individuals are different and there are

different characteristics for different people and not generally because of gender.

Similarly, it is important to understand that not all men have similar characteristics such

as masculinity, speed, intelligence and agility. Therefore, before determining who gets a

position in the military various factors need to be considered and not only an individual's

gender.

Conclusion

There are several factors that have led to gender Discrimination, however the

main factor is culture. Due to the culture, generations after generations have been

instilled with the idea that a certain gender can be associated with certain characteristics.

This therefore accounts for the idea that women are nuturing while men are hardworking.

Culture has also caused gender roles assignment, which expects men to be providers

while women are caretakers. Culture has taught people that men are more likely to

perform better at a task than a woman solely based on gender, which is a problem in the

workplace, where women are denied jobs, promotions and equal salaries. It also affects

the military where they lack the opportunity to become soldiers due to their gender and
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physical appearances. In order for the world to thrive economically and socially, it is

important to shun gender Discrimination through ways such as treating people as

individuals rather than part of a certain gender.

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