Discrimination

          Sexism is a hot topic today that’s why I am writing about it. The examples of oppressions of women by sterner sex are more popular than examples of racism and extremism. The fact that woman called the weaker sex is discrimination.Sexism refers to beliefs and attitudes in relation to an individual's gender. Such beliefs and attitudes are of a social nature and in most cases do not have any legal consequences. However, sex discrimination may have harsh legal consequences depending on each country.  Sex discrimination is mainly defined as adverse action that is performed against another human being.

           Gender discrimination is rooted in a deep past. Throughout history, the issue of equalization of women's rights arose rarely but radically. But these women riots have always been suppressed, and the unfortunate weaker sex was forced to resign.

          ‘Gender discrimination’ is often based on gender stereotypes of a particular society, i.e. considering men physically strong and women as emotionally sensitive. It is because of the fact that the term ‘gender’ is often conflicted with the term ‘sex’. Both the terms are used as synonyms of each other in normal context.

          Newspaper discusses and analyzes the gender discrimination in the workplace and offers concrete ways of resolving this problem. To begin with, the economic cost of being female is that women, on average, earn less than men do. To be precise, that part of the gender pay gap that cannot be explained by relevant factors is the economy. Since the economic results of male/female work is difficult to measure and is rarely measured, this paper uses the whole gap as a proxy for the unfair part of the gap. A large part of the difference is due to discrimination against women in the labor market and in the workplace. Labor market discrimination occurs when an individual’s employment or pay is based on arbitrary factors irrelevant to job performance.

           In the 1970s, working women went from being a minority to a majority of women. In 1970, 42 percent of women worked for pay; in 1980, 51 percent of women were in the labor force. (Hartman, 2003) As of 1978, 35 million women were in the labor force, or over 50 percent of women in the population. As of 1991, 57 million American women were in the labor force, or 57 percent of all women of working age. This rate of participation is growing into the 21-st century. (evidence from Internet)

           In the past, it was not uncommon for single women to work for pay, especially if they were poor, black, or immigrants. Many would stop working when they got married. This custom of single women working was even stronger among the foreign born. In 1890, over 70 percent of single foreign-born women worked; by 1930, the figure was 74 percent. In the 1940s, 46 percent of all single women worked for pay (Women’s Bureau, 1994) (evidence from Internet)

        

          In sum, women now account for nearly half the labor force, but they still are not paid fairly, and they are kept out of the high-paying, high status occupations and jobs. The majority of women work in lower-level jobs. The bad news is that a woman might loose her job as inspector of construction sites in the city and could be reassigned to manage female clerical workers in the office. The good news is that many women are making inroads into formerly “male” occupations. There are women who squeeze through the steel door normally closed to women and become letter carriers, police officers and, airline pilots. We celebrate these women as pioneers in lowering the cost of being female. I really hope that the world will give equally rights to the women that have equally same power to do anything and get anything they are suppose to have, and we ourselves must against gender discrimination so that the world will be free from all forms of discrimination.