SH4050QA: Effective Health & Social Care: Gender Discrimination

This presentation addresses the critical issue of gender discrimination within health and social care practice, focusing on its manifestation in the workplace. It highlights how unequal treatment between male and female employees, whether through pay disparities, sexual harassment, or unequal benefits, impacts individuals, communities, and the nation. The presentation identifies key stakeholders, including employees, the community, and the government, and discusses principles of effective communication, value-based practice, and teamwork to combat discrimination. It reflects on the broader implications of gender discrimination, including its effects on the economy, global representation, and ecological balance, emphasizing the importance of promoting gender equality for a healthier and more equitable society. This presentation underscores the necessity of addressing gender discrimination to improve working conditions, national representation, and overall societal well-being. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments for students.

Introduction to Effective
Health and Social Care
Practice

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care practice is treating conditions that
are related to ill health and medical that are present in the society,
community and health centres. Social care is also the support and
care that is provided to the weak or vulnerable people of the society.
In this presentation, the health and social care practice selected is
gender discrimination at work. This is also one of the great issues
faced at the workplace.

Present health and social care practice
based problem
Gender discrimination at work is
when people that is male and female employees
are treated unequally at the workplace because
of any reason. This can be done in any form that
is in payment scale or in sexual harassments or
giving any kind of benefits to them and many
other ways. Getting paid less for the same job
and work is the biggest issue that is being faced
by many employees in an organisation.

Key stakeholders in health and social care
practice
The main important stakeholders that face this issue at the workplace are as follows:
 Employees: The employees are the main stakeholders that face this issue. Especially female
employees are the one who face this issue in the pay scale or sexual harassment by their
seniors or colleagues.
 Community: Community is the society that sees and sometimes do overlook these issues.
There should be equal rights, duties and responsibilities and all for everyone.
 Government: Government has its role to play in the gender discrimination that is there in
working place. Government tries to reduce this issue with the help of various programs and
benefits that are provided to people.

Problem at national scale
Gender discrimination is gender inequality that is there in
the society and has a great impact on nation. At national scale it
results in unequal opportunities for the female employees in the
organisation. It impacts both the gender that is male and female but
it is the females that are mostly affected. National income is also
affected by this gender discrimination along with various other
disadvantages.

Principles of effective communication,
value based practice and teamwork
There are various principles that can be adopted and they are as follows:
 Ensuring that female employees are safe, secure and completely
respected.
 Challenging and changing all stereotypes that are there in the workplace.
 Creation of balance between gender is important.
 Promotion should be done in gender equality by titles and labels and
other forms.

Reflection how it is related to health and social
care practice
Reduction of gender discrimination is important for the society and the country as there is
lot of impact on the economy due to this. Gender discrimination leads to imbalance in
working conditions and representation of the country is also affected at the global level.
this also leads to ecological imbalance in the country. gender discrimination leads to
various problems and issues that are related to the inequality in the economy and the
country.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that there is gender discrimination that is
present at the workplace. In this report gender discrimination is considered the problem. In
this report different key stakeholders in health and social care practice and that too on national
level are discussed along with the principles of effective communication that can help in
solving these. In this above stated report reflection is made in the way that how it is related to
health and social care practice.

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