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Discrimination at Workplace: A Global Issue for Women

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Discrimination is a common term which we heard a lot in our daily routine when we talk about the women at workplace. There are various forms of discrimination but here we will discuss the most common two of them which is faced women in organizations. Discrimination is a major issue for women which sometimes lead them to attempt a suicide. Organizations should need to develop some antidiscrimination rules & laws for its employee and should be instructed to every employee that the person who breaks that antidiscrimination law; should be fired or terminated.

Discrimination at Workplace: A Global Issue for Women

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Discrimination is a common term which we heard a lot in our daily routine when we talk aboutthe women at workplace. “Discrimination” occurs when someone treated differently with othersjust because of gender, religion, language, race, sexual preference or national origin. Accordingto the Professor Wouter Vandenhole, there is no universally accepted definition of discriminationbut as per the International Covenant Civil & Political Rights said that, “the law prohibits thediscrimination with any employee at workplace on the basis of sex, color, race, religion, social ornational origin, birth, property or other status” (Article 26) For example, “In 2002 a group ofyoung boys who belonged to ROMA was restricted to enter into a bar by a guard and he said thatROMA people are not allowed in this bar” [ CITATION Sch07 \l 1033 ] This policy of bar shows thenegative impact towards the people of ROMA as bar management targeted the people of ROMAwhich is not right.”There are various forms of discrimination but here we will discuss the most common two ofthem which is faced women in organizations. First one is direct discrimination & the second oneis indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination is when someone is treated differently andworse than others in terms of age, marriage, maternity, race, religion sex or sexual orientation. Itis also called gender harassment & sexual harassment. [ CITATION Dir17 \l 1033 ] It is alsodiscrimination when some pregnant women give priority rather than others just because of herpregnancy. Even though it is good to treat well with pregnant women but as per law it isdiscrimination. There are a lot of examples where women discriminated just because her race,religion etc. For example, Microsoft a well renowned name was sued by a female employee justbecause of discrimination in terms gender basis. Katie Moussouris who worked for seven yearsin Microsoft claimed that female employees offer fewer salaries or promotions rather than themen who have same qualification & expertise even some female employees are much active &qualified but their salaries are low then the low performer men employees. [ CITATION Lee15 \l1033 ] In 2012, Computer Science Corporation was prosecuted by a high position femaleexecutive who was terminated as she identified the organizational discrimination & harassmentwith female employees. Same like that Quest Diagnostics and AmeriPath was accused becauseof systematic discriminations against women which later they had distributed 152$ Million to allits current & previous females employees after the court order [ CITATION Lah17 \l 1033 ] Directdiscrimination is not always an intentional discrimination sometimes employer set such criteriawhich will be beneficial for its own organization but could be tough for women. So, it is not right
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that direct discrimination is always an intentional discrimination. [ CITATION Nil09 \l 1033 ]Indirect discrimination occurs when any policy or rule which is applicable to all employees butit has worse effect on some specific people than others like dress code & appearance policy ofany organization. Religious festival is also an example of indirect discrimination. Most oftenorganization has some dress policies which is applicable to all employees but because of religionsuch policies become worse for such religious people like not to wear any scarf which will be aworse policy for any Muslim female. [ CITATION Ind17 \l 1033 ] It is different from directdiscrimination as in this discrimination you can discriminate with any specific person because inthis some specific group could be affected. For example, from last few years Muslim womenwere treated badly at workplace in European countries just because of hijabs or scarf. [ CITATIONACL16 \l 1033 ]In McDonnell Douglas Corporation, a female applied for a job, after test orinterview she qualified but she was denied just because an administration wanted to offer that jobto someone else who even didn’t qualify for that job but administration wanted to give him thatjob on the basis of favoritism. [ CITATION Deb15 \l 1033 ] Same like that a UK living Spanish girlapplied for an accounts job & qualified but she was denied because employer mentioned “nativeEnglish speaker” as a requirement. It is an example of indirect racism discrimination in whichemployer sets some rules for its organization which indirectly affects the others.Unethical acts of organizations are captured or publicized in no time & grabbed the attraction ofpublic, politician, media, internet etc. Like Volkswagen’s emission scandal was highlighted in notime in all over the world and even they were accused & charged a heavy amount. Such incidentaffected their brand image & reputation in all over the world. Discrimination is also an unethicalact of organizations but mostly been overlooked & no action been taken. Discrimination is notonly specific to any country, region or state. It is a global issue at workplace & mostly womenhave to face it. According to the survey which was conducted by UKCES in 2015, 8 out of 10women believed that gender discrimination is still exist while 45% women claimed that theypersonally experienced gender discrimination at their workplaces. [ CITATION Meg16 \l 1033 ]In 2016, an Australian biased “workplace gender equally agency” conducted a research ondiscrimination with the help of OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation &Development), World Bank & ABS and collected the data of 28 countries. The basic purpose of
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this research is to find the ratio of discrimination proportion of each country & for this purposethey categorized men & women into different discrimination practices. Above are the results of pay gap difference between men & women and in every country menhas high salary than women. Only five countries Denmark, Norway, Belgium, New Zealand &Hungary have below 10% which shows a positive message of gender equality as compared to
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other countries while three countries Korea, Japan & Finland are above 20% which gives anegative message of gender equality pay gap between men & women. [ CITATION Wor15 \l 1033 ]According to the OECD, average participation rate of female in 28 countries is 67.2% while formen is 79.7% while shows that men have also an upper edge in this category. The highestparticipation rate of women is in Iceland 84.2% which is followed by Sweden 79.3% &
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