Inequalities In The Work Environment

This essay looks at different contemporary issues associated with age, gender, ethnicity in the working environment; which will particularly incorporate a discussion of gender relations, stereotyping and sources of inequality. The purpose of this essay is to fundamentally consider how organisational culture, norms of work, stereotypes and so on may impact on the opportunities people have. I am going to focus on the inequalities and who does what sort of work in the general workforce and more particularly, on women's roles. The given tv programmes are Dr Ken and Age discrimination from channel 4 (Diane Parsley) and Shortland Street, I will critically be observing and state my reflection on these videos based on inequality in a workplace and
The Dr Ken tv programme is based at a Medical centre with members with different work positions, including a doctor, boss, nurse, receptionist and so on. I chose this programme because it shows an inside example of diversity and inequality in a work environment. After watching the Dr Ken programme, I found that the highest position within the workplace are mostly men. In the work environment, the men are more likely to get highly placed executive and managerial positions than women. As in the Dr Ken show, most the woman's position were nurses, a receptionist and some other positions but not a doctor or boss. The women have lowered role beneath men in terms of everything, including jobs even though they have the same experience, education and training. They are least likely to be managerial positions of power. The presence of the women in the workforce has been growing consistently and now like never before, women can be felt in almost aspect of the workplace. Women be that as it may, generally get less pay, are not promoted as fast as men and are discriminated against in the workplace. Also Clark, who played a role of a nurse at the clinic, but because he’s a homosexual guy, he’s given a lower position as he’s not fit to have a leadership role because of his sexuality. He’s position shows how he idolised Dr Ken because he thinks everything he does is right due the differences in the positions. This is obviously an example of gender
After watching the Shortland Street show, I found that hardly any male works as a receptionist in the workplace and men have always had the highest power. This is a gender bias as it is mainly happening in the workplace as women are the most burden. Similar to the Dr Ken show, Bella a female receptionist and who is a single parent. As shows in the programme she wasn’t too comfortable dating Boyd a doctor due to the differences in their positions. She thinks she is not up to his standard or smart enough to be with a doctor. Another female who also gets to play, to work as a receptionist, I found that they can either be elderly women, women with coloured or young and bubbly, for example, Leanne, Clementine and Bella. Furthermore, most all of the doctors and other members with the highest power are males. The female’s positions are mostly nurses, receptionist and some of them who are doctors, however the male doctors are higher. Also opposite to female having a lower position, Rachel McKenna who works as the CEO, controls everything within the hospital including decision making, resources and so on. Because she is a female the work environment actually works well smoothly. As indicated by Samson (2012), that is, some individuals think women may actually be better managers, mostly as a result of a more collaborative, less hierarchical, relationship oriented approach that is fit with nowadays worldwide and multicultural environment