gender discrimination in work place

职场上的女性歧视以及如何处理

Last Monday I interviewed my English teacher of high school about her experience and understanding of gender discrimination in work place. The content was put in

order and divided into three parts: Direct Discrimination, Indirect Discrimination, and what you can do.

The First Part: Direct Discrimination

First: An employer who is guilty of direct gender discrimination may pass over a qualified female job applicant in favor of an unqualified male applicant because he or his business associates prefer to work with males.

Second: The employer may also ask a female applicant questions that aren't posed to male job applicants -- such as whether she has, or plans to have, children.

Third: Wage gap, on this point my teacher show me a piece of information: In the U.S., the female-to-male earnings ratio was 0.77 in 2009.

About the cause of wage gap, we discussed for about three minutes and got a conclusion. The "wage gap" is not the result of discrimination but of differences in lifestyle choices. Women are less likely than men to sacrifice personal happiness for increases in income or to choose full-time work.

Through collecting the information we know that: among adults working between thirty-five hours a week and part-time workers who have never been married, women earn more than men. Among people ages 27 to 33 who have never had a child, women's earnings approach 98 percent of men's

The Second Part: Indirect Discrimination

According to my teacher’s words: Indirect gender discrimination is more subtle than direct discrimination. Some recruitment practices may not even be a deliberate attempt to discriminate, but nevertheless have the effect of disqualifying female job candidates. Examples might include minimum height or weight requirements that don't affect job performance, but that set the bar too high for most women.

The Third Part: What You Can Do

At last I put forward a question: can you give me any suggestion for how to avoid or handle gender discrimination. From my teacher, I got two ways to handle it.

First: before you find a job, you should make a right choice; think about what kind of life you want to live.

Second: if you're already employed and suspect you've been the target of gender discrimination, try to file a complaint with your direct supervisor, write down the dates, times and places where the incidents took place, collecting emails, notes and letters that substantiate your complaint.

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