Business Academic Skills - Impact of Gender Inequality on Workplace

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Literature review
Topic: The Impact of Gender Inequality on workplace
Summary
According to Mcneil & Liu, (2017) workplace gender equality is still a myth. In most
industries, the equality goals that are propagated by affirmative action regulation have
remained largely untouched. The author focuses on a male dominated industry of steel
manufacture, mining and distribution. The research is based on case study methodology and
longitudinal study of a company in the aforementioned industry. The paper finds that due to
lack of learning about gender equality and organizational involvement of the same, the gap
has remained in the industry. Since women have entered the labor market they have faced
discrimination. Din, Cheng & Nazneen, (2018) too, explores the impacts of various factors on
gender equality in workplace. The factors explored by the author are organizational culture,
society, workplace norms, organizational structure and masculine skills. The accounting
sector too is largely male dominated and has been for centuries. Women in this sector have
lack of motivation and has been seen that women remain at a subordinate position to men in
the accounting sector. The paper finds that the reason for which women remain at subordinate
level are their unwillingness to work for higher managerial position and importance to family.
This is another reason why industry is discriminatory towards women. In this regard, Cavero-
Rubio, Collazo-Mazón & Amorós-Martínez, (2019) proposes that organization’s public
recognition of gender inequality and its likely impact on the financial performance. The focus
has been given on Spanish companies and the study finds positive relation with
organizational acceptance of gender inequality and performance of the organization. Hideg &
Ferris, (2016) are in the view that sexist attitude undermine the employment equity (EE),
while the aspects of benevolent sexism has far more complexity. The study finds that the
problem with benevolent sexism is that while the practitioners are likely to accept EE

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policies, it is mostly limited to following to those policies by hiring women candidates in
feminine positions rather than the masculine ones. The undermining pattern of benevolent
sexism is much more subtle and thus poses much threat in gender segregation in workplaces
and lack of women presence at the decision making level.
Further studies have dived deeper into the solutions to the gender equality issues at
workplaces. Vokic, Coric & Obadic, (2017) in their study suggest that women inequality and
the subsequent discrimination that has been so discussed, can be countered through
education. Their study sheds light on the fact that highly educated and skilled women face
little or no discrimination. The author Fisher, (2017) aims at finding solutions to unequal pay
for both part and full time jobs. The longitudinal and latitudinal division of women in
workplaces has led to segregation. The factors like child care, work family balance, flexible
working is all taken into consideration. The study finds that it might take many more years to
actualize gender equality in organizations. Chang & Milkman, (2019) gives solution to the
gender biased behavior of talent management in an organization. The study finds that
stereotyping is the major reason for this behavior and most organizations do not evaluate
existing practices. Gaze, (2014) presents the evaluation of impact of the Workplace Equality
Act 2012 on Australian organization and indicates the future prospect of gender equality. The
government too, is taking specific interest in promoting gender equality within organizations.
Analysis and Evaluation
The general findings from paper is that the organizations all over the world is far from
realizing gender inequality in workplaces. The main reason that gender inequality in
workplace prevails so strongly is due to the discrimination that women have faced
historically and socially (Din, Cheng & Nazneen, 2018). Most women are not given proper
education and the society defines them according to their stereotypes. They are punished