Gender Inequality At The Workplace

Running head: GENDER INEQUALITY AT THE WORKPLACE
Gender Inequality at the Workplace
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GENDER INEQUALITY AT THE WORKPLACE1
Occupational inequality is a term that refers to the discriminatory and unequal treatment
that is meted out to people on the basis of their sexuality, gender, religious orientation, accent,
weight, height, or race, in a place of work (Arifeen and Gatrell 2019). Occupational inequality is
undesirable and all business organizations must make a concerted attempt to avoid this from
arising, as allowing such inequality exist would be detrimental for the image of the organization.
(Cohen et al. 2019). This assignment discusses the issue of gender inequality at the workplace in
the context of the United Kingdom with reference to a theory that validates the practice of such
inequality, known as the inequality theory.
A well-known example of inequality that can occur at a workplace in the UK is gender
based inequality, whereby people who belong to the fairer sex, that is, women are treated with
disparity in comparison to their male counterparts (Cohen et al. 2019). More often than not
this inequality is rooted in ethnicity based discrimination as well with the women belonging
to ethnically minor or marginalized communities in the UK. While the type of discrimination
that can be carried out in this respect is quite varied, the most common instance of gender based
inequality is discrimination in the area of pay (Cohen et al. 2019). This occurs when men and
women at the same workplace do not get the same remuneration in spite of performing the same
job, a job that requires men and women to deploy the exact same skills and abilities and to put in
the same amount of effort. In such situations men are paid more than their female counterparts,
even though the job that is performed by both is one and the same. Gender based inequality
especially in the area of pay is a gross violation of worker rights, and to practice this form of
inequality in UK based business organizations is something that is strictly forbidden. The
practice of gender based inequality in an act that is rooted in the inequality theory. This is a
theory that seeks to explain the biological differences that exist between women and men, and