Workplace Inequality

Running head: WORKPLACE INEQUALITY
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-Workplace Inequality
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1WORKPLACE INEQUALITY
Introduction:
Workplace inequality is an umbrella term that is used to refer to a number of factors
that can lead to discrimination and marginalization of people causing them disadvantage at
the cost of others (Cunningham 2015).
One example of workplace inequality I faced
Inequalities can exist in many forms in the workplace. One of the biggest inequalities
I have faced in the healthcare industry is a form of gender inequality that exists in the form
of wage gap between male and female physicians and healthcare providers as well as unequal
sharing of workload and responsibilities among them. The female healthcare professionals in
the organization not only had a lower average pay, but also were not represented adequately
in the management as the male employees always got the first preference for promotions to
managerial or administrative roles.
Why that inequality exists
According to social psychology theory, gender inequality is the unequal treatment of
people of the opposite sex which has been learnt through social conditioning and can occur
under several circumstances. The theory explains how through social conditioning and
reinforcements, individuals learn group behavior from others. One such group behavior can
be exclusion of the opposite sex from special privileges and discriminating against them. In
the organization, this can be especially relevant, when the practice of one individual at an
authoritative position can soon convert into a norm with other under them blindly following
the same process (Coy 2016).
The problem of gender inequality can also be related to the stream of gender studies
in which the gender identities and gender representations of people are studied to understand
the differences in perspectives. According to the theory, gender can be broken down as a