Challenges Faced by Women Employees in Australian Financial Sector

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Annotated Bibliography- Reviewing Literature
Article 1
Full reference of the article: Von Hippel, C., Sekaquaptewa, D., & McFarlane, M.
(2015). Stereotype threat among women in finance: Negative effects on identity, workplace
well-being, and recruiting. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 39(3), 405-414.
Objective and research question
The main objective of the research paper is to analyze the different challenges faced
by the finance organizations in retaining the women employees in Australian economy. Due
to the stereotyping threat among the women in management or accounting has led to negative
job attitudes along with intentions to quit jobs.
From the article, the research questions which has been generated is analysis of the
attitude of the management of the financial institutions in Australia towards the women
employees who distinguishes between the work done by women and men and due to this, the
retention becomes a huge challenge.
Method
With the help of the correlation and regression analysis, the different viewpoints of
the women and men employees have been considered to understand their viewpoints
regarding the challenges faced by the banks and other financial institutions in Australia for
retention of women employees. Through the interview technique, the viewpoints have been
generated and it helped in calculating the correlation.
Findings and discussion
From the respective article, it can be identified that there are different reasons due to
which the different employees in the financial institutions in the Australian economy leave

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the jobs. As commented by Von Hippel, Sekaquaptewa and McFarlane (2015), there are
different stereotyping threat against the different employees which affected the morale of
employees who are women and due to the similar reason, they quit the jobs in the financial
sectors. Moreover, as stated by Von Hippel, Sekaquaptewa and McFarlane (2015), the
different women employees are in the minority zone like in the financing and banking and
because of the respective reason, they are being negatively stereotyped in the workplace.
From the different research surveys and interviews which were being conducted, it can be
seen that there are 512 women who are working in finance completed the survey related to
the work environment in which they perform the different tasks.
From the analysis of the results, it has been seen that the women employees are being
threatened and their work are not provided with any such support which affects their
motivation for performing the different tasks in the organization. Moreover, as opined by the
authors, the well-being of the women employees is the main cause which affects their growth
prospects and due to the same, there is salary related dissatisfaction. Every employee working
in the different companies have high expectations for the salary which is received by them
and due to the same, the women employees quit their jobs in the financial sectors and it
affects their prospects related to growth and affects their morale in performing the tasks in a
suitable manner.
Conclusion
From the analysis of the article, it can be concluded that due to the discrimination
related factors, there are different issues related to job satisfaction and well-being of the
female employees in the Australian financial sector. Due to the same, it affects their morale
and the job satisfaction is negative.
How this article will contribute to my Essay 3

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The respective article discusses the different negative impacts of the gender
discrimination on the well-being and retention of the female employees in the finance sector.
There are various issues and loopholes such as salary dissatisfaction which negatively
impacts the company’s growth and overall job prospects of the women employees as well.
Article 2
Full reference of the article- Nagabhaskar, M. (2014). Motivational factors of
employee retention and engagement in organizations. International Journal of Development
Research, 4(2), 221-224.
Objective and research question
The main objective of the article is to identify the different aspects which gives rise to
the challenges related to retention and the analysis of the strategies which will be suitable for
retaining the different employees.
The research question in the respective article is to identify the motivational factors
which will be suitable for the growth of the company and attract more employees in
Australian finance sector.
Method
The methodology which have been used in the respective article is relating to the
interviewing of the different employees working within the respective sector to analyze the
views and analyzing the mean, median, mode along with standard deviation which will be
suitable for managing rate of retention of the employees.
Findings and discussion
In the finance and other banking institutions, it has been noticed that there are
different kinds of issues related to retention of the employees negatively. In Australian