Important Aspect of Human Dignity - PDF

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1.0 Introduction
Equality among human being is a very important aspect of human dignity. As such
each every person should be treated with equal in every environment regardless of
their color, gender or any other characteristic (McKinsey, 2010). Gender bias is a
practice that should not still exist in this century. However, because of corrupt
personal values, backward perceptions and patriarchal behavior, men and women
still suffer. In the topic of equality, gender bias has always been at the center stage
with much weight leaning on women discrimination. Studies have shown that
women have been the main victims of discrimination at work places. The same
studies have indicated that gender biasness in work places have come with dire
consequences. It has come with social and financial consequences. Organizations
with this kind of practice or lack gender diversity in their top management have
been seen to suffer because of being less innovative, successful and profitable
(McKinsey, 2010). On the contrary, organizations with females in their top
management such as in board have been seen to perform better than organizations
whose top management is purely made of males alone.
According to a research done by Stanford University Institute for gender research
revealed that female workers suffered criticism from their male counterparts when
it came to decision making (Major & McFarlin, 2012). The same research found that
when women succeed at work places, other members usually do not believe that it
is their individual effort. They therefore normally want to attribute the success to
such factors as luck. Employers or hiring managers have been seen to show
favoritism to males when it comes to employment. They believe that certain tasks
can only be handled by men. Example of these tasks is technical jobs (Roxana,
2013).
Due to so many unanswered questions and gaps in gender discrimination topic, this
research seeks to use data sample of 1000 employees sourced from Australian
taxation Office (ATO) to find answers to the question. The data contains employees
by gender, their earnings and profession. Another primary data was collected to
support the research so as to answer the research question adequately. This data
was collected by use of questionnaires which had its limitations. The major
limitation of this method is that there were cases of non-responses.

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2.0 Summary statistics
a) Occupation and gender table
Occupation Gender
Male Fem
ale
Grand
Total
Clerical & Administrative
worker
16 80 96
Community & Personal
service workers
27 54 81
Consultants & Apprentices 36 45 81
Laborers 51 24 75
Machinery operators &
Drivers
50 2 52
Managers 55 33 88
Not specified 94 83 177
Professionals 74 116 190
Sales workers 16 45 61
Technicians & Trade workers 85 14 99
Grand Total 504 496 1000
Table 1
Occupation and gender graph