For adult women, the workplace is an area where gender discrimination is concentrated. Research shows that there are gender stereotypes in job advertisements, and women have less chance of getting jobs in the jo
(Tsui and O'Reilly, 1989). Others argue that boss–worker homophily is important in another way, as shared experiences with gender discrimination and work-family conflict increases the likelihood that female superiors will bond with and mentor female subordinates (Fagenson, 1993). Finally, ...
GLASS ceiling (Employment discrimination)WOMEN employeesJOB vacanciesWOMEN leadersPurpose: Previous research has highlighted that employee wellbeing in the workplace is closely linked to equity, achievement, and interactions. However, gender inequality in employment opportunities, work-life imbalance,...
Apple senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjovik was placed on indefinite administrative leave this week after she posted a number of tweets chronicling alleged sexism and discrimination in the workplace. Gjovik,inspiredby other public accounts of sexism in Big Tech,...
As a consequence of this, workplace sexual harassment often strips female journalists of their self-confidence and professional value, and in severe cases, may even cause them to suffer from depression and other mental illnesses (Louise North 2016a). Likewise, institutional discrimination against ...
The procedure has been described by experts such as Ms Ras-Work, “It is torture. It is inhuman. It is degrading treatment of women. It is against the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Woman, the Convention on theRights of the Child, and so many other ...
Women’s empowerment and child protection (PPPA) minister Bintang Puspayoga, said, “All policies, programmes, and activities in a workplace should reflect equality between women and men. The PPPA Ministry strictly rejects all forms of discrimination against women, starting from recruitment, work ...
Social Work Policy Introduction Female Sex Workers (FSWs) are the members of society who are victims of their circumstances, and also of the policymakers’ ongoing discrimination. FSWs have not merely been left out from the government social schemes equivalently, they are not even covered under ...
Discrimination against female scientists has cropped up elsewhere. One study conducted in Sweden, of all places--showed that female medical-research scientists had to be twice as good as men to win research grants. These pieces of work, though, were relatively small-scale. Now, a much larger ...
Notably, discrimination against women in employment and its underlying mechanism are crucial social issues. This study investigated how the expansion of the scope of the two-child policy affected the employment of female employees and how this mechanism impacts corporate performance. Existing studies ...