Gender Inequality at Workplace

Running Head: Gender Pay Gap: A Severe Issue
Gender Inequality at Workplace

Gender Pay Gap: A Severe Issue 1
Gender Inequality at Workplace
Main issue:
In the recent era, the issue of workplace gender inequality has become quite topical.
Workplace gender inequality is not only reflected by the discriminated employee treatment
but also the pay gaps between the male and female employees at any organisations (Gregory,
2003). The variation between the earnings of male and female employees working under the
same organisation at the same designations is termed as the pay gap and is expressed as the
percentage of men’s earnings at the same workplaces. It is generally reported by various
media reports on the basis of their real-world surveys that women employees in the current
times are being paid almost half of the male employees at certain workplaces even after
working for 50 minutes more on an average than the men. Also, it is encountered that female
employees face narrow scopes for the senior roles at their organisations (Treanor, 2016).
Why media covered it?
It is not merely women who are under-paid at various organisations but also the male
employees in certain organisations are deprived of the special privileges such as shifts
working, maternity packages or allowances that are being offered to the women employees at
such offices. These factors have actually contributed to gender inequality at the workplaces
and caused huge dissatisfaction among the employees. In order to highlight the concern of
disparity in pay opportunities and other concerns relating to gender inequality to the media
employees of such organisations have used different ways of protestation such as prolonged
strikes (Holder, et al., 2018). The corporations that are involved in such practices are
condemned under such acts. Hence the issue of gender pay gap has grabbed significant media
attention.