psychology, business and sociology Assignment

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1.0 Introduction
In every environment of work, it is only fair for people to be judged by what they
can do and achieve. No one should be discriminated based on race, region, gender
or any other distinguishing characteristic (McKinsey, 2010). The act of
discrimination nowadays plays out so much when it comes to employment of males
and females in many organizations. Researches focused on finding the truth about
disparities in treatment of females at work places have been carried out in various
disciplines such as psychology, business and sociology.
With regards to gender biasness at work places, it has been found that the female
gender has been the greatest victims. The print media and social media have been
full of reports of females being paid less than their male counterparts in
assignments that are similar or in same job rank. One of the researches conducted
on this subject by (Roxana, 2013) found that is always an element of male
chauvinism that usually plays out when it comes to recruitment of employees. It
found that, all factors kept constant, employers prefer male employees for
particular jobs. For example the hiring managers according to (Roxana, 2013) feel
that males are usually good in technical subjects therefore they perceive that the
same is true when it comes to jobs. These employers because of paranoia assign
technical tasks to male employees rather than their female counterparts (Major &
McFarlin, 2012) . According to Major and McFarlin, these male employees had the
chance to advance in their careers more than their female counterparts courtesy of
discrimination. It is against this background that this research has been conducted
to unravel the many questions that have been asked about gender discrimination in
terms of salary and employment. More so, to find out whether there is biasness in
treatment of female or male employees in Australia.
The data to answer the research question was taken from Australian taxation office
(ATO). The sample consisted of 1000 workers who were drawn from various
professions in Australia. There were both categorical and numerical variables. Some
of the numerical variables were salaries and deductions. Categorical variables were
gender and profession.
The other type of data was collected by the research itself to help answer the
research topic. This data was collected through the use of questionnaires. The main
undoing of this method of data collection is that there are always chances of
respondents misinterpreting the questions thereby giving wrong responses.

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2.0 Summary statistics
a) Table of occupation according to gender
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
Graph of occupation according to gender