Stereotyping: Gender Diversity

Organization’s need participation of diversity in the workplace, which is very necessary, still because there is still gender stereotypes and gender discrimination in the workplace. Stereotype refers to individual or specific types of people who have stationary characteristic when people think. As Michael P. (2001) said, basically, stereotyping can turn into discrimination if people misunderstand it can be brought in a negative manner. This paper will concern the gender issue involving stereotyping in workplace when people are supposed set common characters and behaviors of particular gender. In addition, having gender discrimination tendency when stereotype turn into a negative manner in workplace and gender discrimination becoming a big problem in workplace, this paper will considered managers and employees how to face this problem and how to solve it. In the following lines gender stereotypes and discrimination in workplace will be involved with the help of literature. The gender issue involving stereotyping in the workplace is when a person applies an assumed set of common traits and behaviors of a particular gender; whether it is male or female, to a specific person based on the knowledge of that person’s membership in the gender. Stereotypes may be a negative or positive thing. Main Body
* Gender stereotypes
1. Definition for Gender Stereotypes
The gender issue involving stereotyping in the workplace is when a person applies an assumed set of common traits and behaviors of a particular gender; be it male or female, to a specific person based merely on the knowledge of that person’s membership in the gender. Stereotypes may be positive or negative, but it’s the application of those stereotypes that cause threats to the organization’s infrastructure.
2. Influences in workplace
Main focused on the negative aspects:
1) Gender stereotyping leads to wage discrimination
2) Gender stereotyping leads to resulting discrimination in employer hiring, firing and promotional practices.
3) Gender stereotyping also leads to sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination.
4) Gender stereotyping resulting discrimination is still a significant roadblock to women’s success in the workplace.
3. Example for Gender Stereotype:
Women’s discrimination in work environments still exist even thought there is legislature and courts that are supposed to protect against such negative environments, other important measures must be taken to eliminate the stereotypes. ASDA was managing gender diversity and having a flexible working arrangements of work.
* Gender discrimination
1. The concept of Gender discrimination:
Gender discrimination is unequal treatment based on the gender of a person and refers to any situation where a person is denied an opportunity or misjudged solely on the basis of their sex. (Mullins, 2007)
2. Research: Women’s employment in the UK
Women now comprise approximately 47% of the workforce.
In 1970s, only 10% of professionals were women, compared with 42% today (EOC, 2006). The main reason is there have been changes in types of jobs that women do.
There is an ‘occupational gender segregation’ are used to describe the tendency for men and women to be employed in different occupations and sectors of the economy.
From the EOC, 2006’s data that can be known there are three occupational groups that women majority employed. There are ‘administrative and secretarial (81%)’, ‘personal services (84%)’ and ‘sales and customer service (69%)’. There also have over half of all employed women work in these three occupational groups alone. Women also work in low-paid job, including receptionists (95%), cleaners and domestics (76%) and waiting staff (74%). Whereas, men predominate in manual jobs in the skilled trades (92%) and in ‘process, plant and machine operatives’ (87%)
3. Explain the trends in women’s employment from two perspectives: employers and women themselves.
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