Gender Inequality in United Kingdom: A Discussion on Discrimination and Segregation

This paper discusses the issue of gender inequality in the United Kingdom, focusing on discrimination and segregation in the workplace and society. It explores the impact of cultural beliefs and traditions on women's professional growth and the gender pay gap. The paper also highlights the case of Iceland, which has achieved gender equality in various aspects.

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Gender Discrimination defines that the position of a woman and a man is not equal in
the society. Gender inequality refers the unequal treatment with the individual wholly or
partly due to their gender. In the society, women lag behind men in many fields such as
education, political representation, labour market opportunities and in job pay. Gender
discrimination is an issue in the world which is socially build by the people of the society
(Heilman, & Caleo, 2018). In this paper, the discussion will be made on the topic of “gender
inequality in United Kingdom”.
The role of women in the society is limited to maintenance of family. Male
dominance is a main factor from which inequality is spreading in the society. The society is
called men society in which the women have the responsibility to take care of the families
with the restricted areas that is different from the public area (Jayachandran, 2015). The men
are allowed to work in outside in the external environment such as politics, governance and
many other profession. In the men society, men are responsible to earn the money but the
women do not allow working outside to earn money. The women have the responsibility to
take care of the family members by cooking the food and maintain the house. It has been seen
that the more participation of men in the external environment increase their power in the
society.
The gender organizational concept states that the men getting the advantage and
women face the disadvantage in the everyday works of workplace. The image of men and
women is different in the organization of UK. The statement of masculinity power is used to
define men and it is able to do the physical hard word. The image of women defines with its
care services in the organization of UK. The women contribute in the maintenance of
separation in the organization. The organization of UK implements the act of male notion
helps the male in increasing their power. It has been seen that the point of view of men is
more heard by the organisation as compare to women from that men getting an advantage in

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the workplace. The decision taken by the women is not more valuable than the decision taken
by the men in the organisation of UK. The decision are taken as per the majority of male due
to which the opportunity of rise in the profession is very low for women as compare to the
men (Rao, Sandler, Kelleher, & Miller, 2015). The men get the opportunity to rise in their
profession due to their high power in the organisation. The language is essential in attaining
the position of a leader in the organisation that directed towards the male in the organisation
of UK (McMaster, 2016). Women face the difficulties in the path of their career; power of
male is an obstacle in the path of professional growth of women in the organisation. It has
been seen that the people of UK believes that the men can easily maintain the organisation in
a better manner in the position of senior management. Believe and tradition follow by an
organisation increase the difficulties for a woman in their profession. The women getting the
opportunity in the care sector services such as nursing, assistants and many others but they
have less opportunity to getting the promotion in the software development sector (Nicolson,
2015).
From the earlier life, people follow the tradition of segregation which directly affects
the profession growth of women. The difference between men and women is unequal due to
the separation of women from their families. It is the main reason that the women get the low
pay and have less chances of promotion. The women separated from their family after the
marriage due to which there lifestyle is changed. It has been seen that the change in lifestyle
have a negative impact on the progression opportunities of women in their professional life
(Flynn, Earlie, & Cross, 2015). The women take the family leaves which result the gender
pay gap for the women. The women have fewer chances to get back to their job after
marriage because they are not allowed to do the work outside the restricted area. The
efficiency of women diminishes in the workplace due to changing the lifestyle. Change in
lifestyle means change in habits and interest of women. As per the concept, the change in

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lifestyle is a reason of gender pay gap. The diminishing efficiency is the workplace is the
barrier for the women in their professional position. It has been founded that the men are
forward for the professional position such as senior management position due to high
efficiency in the work. Physical strength is also considered in some industries from which the
men get the chance of high position in the organisation. Physical strength is also a barrier
which results in the gender pay gap. It is evaluated that women get the 80% of wages of men
in the organisation of UK. As per the analysis, it has been founded that there are large
number of women who have more experience as compare to the men experience but the
experience of men is more valuable in the term of wages (Flinkman, & Salanterä, 2015).
People of UK follows the concept of men society, in which men of the family act as the head
of the house and he have the rights to take the decision and the women plays her by
performing the following the order given by the men. According to gender report, it has been
seen that the participation in the society of women is less as compare to men with the rate of
58% (Equalityhumanrights, 2018). From the analysis it has been stated that the participation
of women is less due to playing the role of housewives which result in the gender pay gap.
Horizontal segregation defines the difference number of people in each gender across
occupational. Vertical segregation defines that the men have high job as compare to women.
In horizontal segregation, women are entering into the job through the service sector. But in
vertical segregation, women are not allowed to do the work outside and the men getting the
opportunity to grow in their profession. The society is walking with the vertical segregation
in which a man getting higher position and a woman efficiency is getting low due to changing
life style.
There are many stereotypes believe in the organisation such as segregation that helps
the male workers to grow in their profession but it is a difficulty for the women workers. As
per believes of society, men is evaluated more effective leader in an organisation. The women

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who have been able to give their best towards their organisation also get the lower rank due
to notion exist in the organisation. It has been seen that the evaluation of rewards is also
unequal due to inefficiency in the performance of women. Women have more efficiency to
handle the multiple situations at a time more than the men. But the men get the advantage in
their profession due to high power of men in the organisation which also increases the reward
gap. Although, the women of UK are the good achievers in the academics fields but that is
not reflected in the area of workplace achievement.
In the organisation of UK, the women have been poor paid in the terms of rewards
and salary. They are restricted with the traditional occupations of the society such as assistant
work, nurses, and many others. Human resources manager is the common job for the women
because it is related to the care and administrative of organisation. The women perform the
responsibility in the field of maintaining and caring which is undervalued as per believe of
people of UK. The women have bunched of various jobs in the organisation in which the
major part of women getting the opportunity in the undervalued services such as care sectors.
Although, these sectors are not undervalued but the religions constructed by human beings
measured these sectors as undervalued which is not appropriate for women (Vleuten, 2016).
According to the World Economic Forum, it has been stated that there will be large
gender-gap in the organisation of UK. The women lost the millions of jobs due to gender
inequality in the society. As per the gender report, it is founded that the women lost the 2.45
million jobs by the end of the year of 2020 (Weforum, 2018). The women suffer the loss of
job as well as low wages in the organisation of UK. The services industries offer the more
jobs to women to take care of the services of the organisation or members of the organisation.
It is observed that the women has more responsibility towards their family due to which they
have very less time to learn the new things and give time for themselves. These personal
reasons become the obstacles for men. It can be said that the women loose the best job

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opportunity in the age of advance technologies if the current trend is continue follow by the
society. In the technology sector, gender gap is large and it would be widened in the coming
years due to less participation of women in the workplace (Otiniano Verissimo, Gee, Ford, &
Iguchi, 2014).
Gender equality refers the state of equal access the opportunities and resources
regardless of gender. It includes the participation of women in economic and decision making
process in the organisation (Aagaard, 2016). Gender equality concept states that the both men
and women are free to select their choices as per their personal abilities. The different
behaviour, needs and aspiration of men and women is equally treated and favoured. It is
against the concept of discrimination in the gender; it does not mean that women and men
become same. According to this concept, the rights and responsibilities and opportunities are
not relying on the born of an individual (Peters, & Wolper, 2018). It also means to fairly
treatment of the need of men and women. As per the World Economic Forum report of 2017,
Iceland achieves the top position in the context to gender equality (Weforum. 2018). It has
been appreciated that the small Island has been able to get the first rank among the 144
countries (Rothman, 2015). It is the only country which has close gender income gap with the
rate of 44%. The women of the country are able to occupy 30 seats out of 62 parliamentary
seats of parliament which states that women occupied the strong position in the country
(Hacker, 2017). It can be said that the Iceland is advance as compare to the Finland, Norway
and the Sweden in the term of gender equality (Durbin, Page, & Walby, 2017). Gender gap is
reduces in the Iceland due to which the women are encourage to participate in the economic
activities. The legislation in Iceland is advanced and neutral country in the world in the terms
of gender (McGlynn, 2018).
It has been evaluated that the culture and believes of people strongly affects the power
of women and men in the society. It can be said that the women is able to perform their

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responsibilities very well but there are certain barriers which push them back. In the
organisation, point of view of women is less valuable than the men point of view which
negatively affects women profession. Culture and believes are the reasons of reducing the
opportunity of growth of women. The men notion exist in the organisation provides the
opportunities to men to go ahead in the professional career but it becomes an obstacle in the
profession of women. There are some industries which considered the physical strength as a
reason of diminishing efficiency of women. Diminishing efficiency becomes the part of life
of women and the reason is discontinuity in the performance (Fraile, & Gomez, 2017).
Change in lifestyle is the major issue of discontinuity of performance of women. The men in
the organisation of UK are rewarded better as compare to women reward. The wage rate of
women is measurable in the terms of experience or performance but due to diminishing
efficiency the women get lower wages as compare to men. In the organisation of UK, wages
are distributed as per the male notion exist in the organisation. It has been evaluated that the
vertical segregation is followed in the society which gives the opportunity to men for the
highest position. It has been founded that as the time passes women’s are getting stronger by
their experiences. Although, rewards distributed in the right concept as per the performance
and responsibilities but the cause of inequality is the main issue which increases the gap in
the pay rate.
From the above discussion, it has been concluded that the gender discrimination is a
concept that states the inequality in men and women of the society. In the organisation, men
are getting the proper guidance from the mentors and trainers for the high position. But the
implicit power in the organisation fails the women in getting the high position in the market.
Organisational culture plays a crucial role in the hierarchy of the organisation. The male
notion exist in the organisation is appropriate for the men not for the women in the society. It
is observed that there is large pay gap due to gender inequality in the organisation.

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Segregation tradition is the reason of change in the life style of women that increases the pay
gap of men and women. Change lifestyle means the change in interest and passion of women
which reduces the efficiency of women in performing their existing responsibilities. Rewards
are distributed as per the performance of an individual. It is observed that the performance of
women is inappropriate thus; the wage and rewards rate of women is less as compare to men.
Diminishing efficiency is also one of the reasons of gender pay gap in the organisation.
Iceland is the only country in the world that treats equally men and women in the
organisation as well as in the society. From the analysis, it has been evaluated that the gap
between the gender pay will be reduces in the near year because women are getting string day
by day from their experience and struggles.

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