Women's Experiences And Perspectives

Running head: GENDER DISCRIMINATION
Gender Discrimination
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Executive Summary
The report discusses about the gender discrimination issue present in the company named
Amazon. The issue of gender discrimination has become one of the major concerns for
many companies of this world. Amazon also faced such issues and women employees of the
company reported about this situation as well. A female employee was fired due to taking
medical leaves approved by the company and she also reported about the less presence of
females in the higher positions of the company.

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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................... 3
Summary of the Scenario.............................................................................................. 3
Description of Theory.................................................................................................. 4
Analysis of Theory...................................................................................................... 5
Alternative Solution..................................................................................................... 7
Recommendation........................................................................................................ 8
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 8

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Introduction
The issue of gender discrimination is one of the most common problem in the
workplaces around the world. In many reputed organization in the world, the gender
discrimination cases were reported by their employees. Therefore, it is the high time to
rethink about this issue in the context of the women empowerment around the world
(Okechukwu et al., 2014).
This report enlightens the facts of gender discrimination in the Amazon Company in a
brief manner and simultaneously assess the scenario in terms of the stakeholder engagement
theory. In the later part of the report, three possible solution of this problem are also
discussed in a brief manner.
Summary of the Scenario
The issue of gender discrimination is quite severe in Amazon. As per the report, it is
stated that, the female employees in the Amazon are clearly discriminated and they are not at
all equally treated along with the male employees of the company. The report stated several
civil employment lawsuits raised by women worked in Amazon. Those women stated that,
they were fired by the company in an unlawful ways after taking leaves and the right of
taking leaves was protected by the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) (Armenia, Gerstel
& Wing, 2014). Not only this, but the women also reported that, the most of the senior
administrative posts of the company was occupied by the male employees of the company as
well. The report stated that, almost 78 per cent of the senior leadership posts of the company
is occupied by the male employees. Therefore, it was reported that, the 10 people who
reported to the CEO of the company Jeff Bezos, only one woman was present from the
human resource (HR) department of the company (Patch, 2018). Therefore, it can be said
that, there is a case of clear discrimination in hiring the female employees of the company.