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Discrimination in Workplace Assignment

   

Added on  2020-04-07

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RUNNING HEAD: DISCRIMINATION IN WORLPLACE 1DISCRIMINATION IN WORLPLACE Student NameInstitute Name

DISCRIMINATION IN WORLPLACE2ContentsIntroduction to the issue.............................................................................................................3Description of IT industry..........................................................................................................3Potential impact of the issue on the IT industry and on the conduct of practice.......................4Description of the ways to deal with the issue...........................................................................5Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6Reference....................................................................................................................................7

DISCRIMINATION IN WORLPLACE3Introduction to the issueThe essay will discuss in detail about the issue of sexism in the technology sector. Any kind of discrimination especially sexism in this sector is considered as an occupational sexism. It has been argued a lot of time in media that there is a high ratio of women and men, rates of graduation for number of engineering based degrees as well as culture of the industry itself are the main reason of sexism in the technology sector (Nadal et al, 2014). While looking at the industry, one will understand that the first programmer in the world happened to be a woman. In the year 1843, a woman called Ada Lovelace developed the veryfirst theoretical algorithm in software. The vision presented by her was based on analytical engine that can weave any kind of pattern like Jacquard loom can weave leaves and flowers. The vision of her should have become an embody or the lifeblood of technology industry along with invention and pushed boundaries of various possibility. However, her efforts and legacy want into haywire with today’s age modern programming where the existence of women in this industry has become dangerously gendered (Collins, 2011).Description of IT industryThe word information technology often called as IT are widely come in used in organization as well as filed of computing. People using the terms in this field are generally referring towards many kinds of computer based work with sometime people confuses with the meaning. For more than ten years there are many corporation that have created a distinct kindof IT department to manage the computer based technologies associated for the business (Webster, 2014). Whatever such departments worked on becoming the main definition of IT, one that has evolved over a period. In the present time, IT department have accountability in following areas: -1.Technology support from computer

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