Essays on Sexual Discrimination

Question One

The greatest challenge in the successful completion of this project was comparing my cultural practices with those of communities that have been exposed to the western cultures and experiences. It was relatively difficult to demonstrate the impact of the new cultures and the consequences that people have suffered from the new ideologies they were subjected to, based on pre-existing assumptions of the community’s past. Addressing this problem required immense mental immersion and imaginative involvement based on the descriptions of the characters and activities illustrated in the novel. Relating to the authors creativity and critically analysing the situations which ...

Literature Review

Before indulging in gender-related issues within the hospitality industry, it is important to understand the role women play in it. According to Baum and Cheung (2015), Within the industry, women make up nearly 70% of the workforce, however paradoxically there is a marked under-representation of women in senior positions, with women holding less than 40% of all managerial positions, less than 20% of general management roles and between 5-8% of board positions . An immense amount of literature exists on gender-related issues encountered in the hospitality industry, especially by females. From discriminatory recruitment policies to salary differentials to sexual harassment ...

Introduction

Upholding ethical character is essential to the success of any organization. In fact, lack thereof compromises a company’s performance as it leads to mediocre performance or complete failure. With this in mind, it is worth appreciating the fact that the people in a work environment are exposed to multiple forms of discrimination. The development of this issue is largely accredited to the fact that the corporate environment has a broad level of diversity. As such, some individuals might not appreciate the personalities of other workers, and they may end up making discriminatory criticisms. Sexually oriented discrimination is very ...

Discrimination at workplace

Abstract A number of citizens have fallen victims of discriminatory practices at their work places. The effects of discrimination in the workplace may be so severe, some causing serious traumas and emotional problems. Discrimination at work place occurs when an employer takes an adverse action against an employee or even a prospective employee due to protected attribute. Such discrimination leads to inequality and unfairness in the workplace where some employees are denied basic rights compared to others. This paper presents a proposal on how to end discrimination at work place. The paper argues that ending discrimination in the workplace ...

Issue: Did the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err by granted North American Stainless’ motion for summary judgement based on their argument that Thompson’s claim was not allowed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Rule: An employer is prohibited from discriminating against any of its employees as retaliation for filing a charge under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. An employee can file a charge under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against an employer if they believe that the employer’s unlawful agreement practice was ...

Personal experience with discrimination

Social and cultural diversity across the world affects how individuals are perceived and handled in different social settings. It is the quality of different cultures as opposed to monoculture across the global world. Even though the United States has made an outstanding effort to curb discrimination, traces of these acts still exist specially in the New York City (Belmont, 2011). This paper reflects my own personal experience both at my home town in New York City and abroad, regarding personal biasness and discrimination that I have experienced in different social settings upon factors such as race, gender, religion, socioeconomic ...

Ever since the beginning of the new millenium, more and more attention began to be paid to the concept of universal human rights and to the need for global morality, considered to have a positive impact on global politics and to improve the life of people across the globe. While these universal human rights have yet to be enforced, the very idea of their existence gains ground among people all around the world, no matter their cultural background or religious appurtenance. While some of the rights mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...

Part One Wall Mart Company is faced with a sex discrimination lawsuit which is based on statistical analysis which indicated that the company which is rated as the largest employer in the United States discriminates against women employees. This discrimination as argued by attorneys is explicitly reflected in the payment of salaries and giving of promotions to the employees. It is argued that female workers in the company are paid less and given fewer promotions compared to their male counterpart, despite the fact that they are both exposed to the same work load in the conduction of their ...

Sexual harassment is one of the most prominent social issues that not only affects the victim, but also the decorum of workplace as a whole. Two forms of conduct may constitute harassment, sexual and non-sexual. Physical assault, and sexually charged advances come under sexual form of harassment. Non-sexual conduct, consisting of gender-discrimination, is also a form of sexual harassment. Statistics reveals that around 15000 cases are filed with EEOC(Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) each year. Sexual harassment of women, in the form of gender discrimination, is common at American workplaces also. Most of the cases of sexual harassment center around females ...

“Is the current wage gap unfairly distributed in favor of men because of Sexual Discrimination?”

Throughout history, the equality of women’s earnings in the workplace has drawn much debate without any concrete solution to resolving the issue. This practice is a form of sexual discrimination in the workplace. This issue has persisted because of legal, religious and cultural practices over the years, Over the years men earn more pay than men even though in instances they hold the same positions and have the same level of education. Women who work full time only receive 77 cents out of every dollar that men earn. In America, this gap in wages results in a loss of over $ ...

Black feminism refers to theories or beliefs, which highlights the numerous disadvantages experienced by the black population at the hands of the white population with respect to gender class and race. There has been a lot of debate involving numerous multinational and humanitarian bodies on the relevance or truth of these feminist theories. Philosophers and theorists have formulated hypotheses to explain the predicament of the black population. Essentially, these theories were developed in the 1970s as a possible explanation of women’s oppression and how the situation could be solved. Sociological studies have taken big interest in determining the normal ways ...

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sexual discrimination is defined as unfair or unfavorable treatment of an individual on the basis of their sex. This includes occupational sexual discrimination in the form of lower wages, promotion obstacles, hiring, training, firing and benefits. It also involves sexual harassment which involves sexual harassment in verbal or physical form. (n.d) Despite numerous advances, sexual discrimination still exists in the form of sexual harassment, occupational discrimination and financial discrimination. The victims are mostly women regardless of numerous laws and acts that have been passed to protect them. In her article ...

Introduction

Discrimination in the society is an issue as old as the existence of mankind. It has always been subjected to the minority groups in the society and created a social class gap in the society that has enabled the stronger in to exploit and rule upon those considered weak. Complete diversity has never been a practical issue since time immemorial. The issues regarding discrimination in the societies we live today or even in the traditional societies have always been based on the rule of normalcy within the society. This refers to cultures that have subjected certain group of people in the ...

Location

Gender discrimination is the maltreatment of an individual based on their sex. This form of discrimination most commonly affects women. It also may affect homosexual and transgendered men. Whereas women represent approximately fifty percent of the global population, they are woefully underrepresented in a variety of fields including leadership roles. Gender discrimination takes the form of unequal pay for equal work, unwanted sexual advances, demands for sexual favors in exchange for workplace advancement, discrimination during pregnancy, and general unfavorable views towards women based on their roles as mothers. Gender discrimination exists in even the most advanced, enlightened, and egalitarian ...

Affirmative action is the rule and policy that is considered to assist a small group of people in terms of their education, job, business and employment and any social issues faced by the group. Affirmative action has seen a radical change in the way it has been handled in the past few decades. Affirmative action, like crime, is often portrayed as a threat to the working class that comes not from the top, but from the bottom and from “the other” (Fobanjong, 2001, p28). There have been numerous cases on Affirmative action and the minority community believes that policies created in Affirmative ...

United States Army Academy

Various scholars and academic experts have defined ethics differently at different times. It is a discipline that cannot be assigned a single definition because its embraces many principles and philosophies and its application is in almost all fields and professions. The concepts of ethics can for instance be applied in the practice of law, medicine, and the military. As a general definition, ethics can be said to be a set of pre-determined guidelines that govern the conduct of the parties concerned in the context of the institution or profession where such principles are designed (Barlett, 2011). The role of ethics is fundamentally to ...

Introduction

The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 is arguably the most significant aspect of legal issues governing labor relations to this day. Title seven of the same act illegalizes discriminatory practices in the employment process and the entire human resource management function of any organization (Silver, 2001). It made illegal all prejudices along the sexual, color, creed, and racial lines. It is vital that all stakeholders in an organization, especially the staff members and stewards of the organization to possess mastery of the legal concept of Equal Opportunity Employment. This will see to it that the welfare of both parties ...

This essay deals with topics associated with employment and policy law for supervisors and managers, with focus on four specific aspects of the application of such legislation. The first is a hypothetical scenario in which a police chief has to develop a policy to help his officers deal with the issues associated with a number of recent incidents of the “suicide by cop” situation. The second topic describes how criminal justice employees are protected by employment laws and why that protection is important. The third item is a description of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a case of sexual harassment, outline of the arguments on ...

Workplace Bullying

Yamada D.C. (2010). Workplace bullying and American employment law: A ten-year progress report and assessment. Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 32 (1) Retrieved 30 May 2012 via: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507950

A. Workplace Bullying Enters America’s Consciousness

The problem of psychological abusive behavior at work and its negative effects on individuals and organizations only began to be investigated in the U.S in the mid-1990’s. Drs Gary and Ruth Namie were the first to use the term workplace bullying in terms of American employment and to expose this phenomenon to the American public. They also initiated the Campaign Against Workplace Bullying, created a “Bullybusters” website, and ...

1. Informal Networks Atkinson & Moffat (2005) describes informal networks as a relationship between colleagues that develops after the realization of the gains derivable from such a network. Informal networks keep employees connected in a context that is only well understood among them (members of the same network). As opposed to formal networks which are regulative, informative-instructive, or integrative or innovative, informal networks are inherently are known to change with time (Anderson, Ones, Sinangil, & Viswesvaran, 2001). Research has shown that these networks are less innovative and are by all means not regulative.

Conventionally, the presence of informal networks has always been justified ...

Preliminary Project Outline: Sexual Discrimination at Tyson’s Food

Introduction The paper begins with an introducing the challenges that different leaders of organizations face. The introduction captures these challenges to arise because of the organizations making efforts to reach out to their goals. It outlines the role of leaders to motivate the workforce, and thus if the leadership challenges are not addressed, then the employees would lose morale, and this would affect the performance of the organization. It also brings in the core subject matter of the paper, where Tyson Food challenge of ‘sexual discrimination’ is looked. Tyson Food has had a leadership challenge where sexual discrimination has ...

Gender Discrimination at Tyson Foods

Introduction Leadership of organizations requires profound understanding of rights as well as the responsibilities of the workers. This is because organizations can realize their objectives in the context where there is a balance of the rights of the workers, as well as their responsibilities. Leaders have the core role to motivate the workers under them to perform their duties in order to ensure the organization can meet its objectives. In order to have a motivated workforce, then the managers are required to create a working atmosphere that is convenient for the workers to be able to perform their work to the ...

Employment Practices at Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Company has been known to offer better prices to its customers than other retail stores. It has been a friend to the working class as well as to the families on budget for a long time (Fishman, 2006). This company has realized extra special growth beginning way back from the time it started its operations in the year 1962 and it now has over six thousand retail units all over the world (Fishman, 2006). The success of this company can be attributed to its values it embraces of hard work, satisfying the customer and appreciating its associations. This was a direction ...