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Essay / Discrimination Against Women in the Workplace - 1196
Although some of the worst employment discrimination was eliminated by the Civil Rights Act in 1964, many women continue to face unfair discrimination and illegal in the workplace. Even though women have come a long way, they still face discrimination in certain professional fields. High-end jobs, most often in large corporations and medical fields, continue to discriminate against women, even if they have the same professional qualifications as men. There are many different ways in which women are discriminated against in the workplace. The exclusion of women solely because of their gender is a now rare example of discrimination against women. Although women generally have access to the labor market, gender discrimination still persists in other forms. There are many examples of potentially illegal gender discrimination that women face. Hiring and firing are the top two issues women often face in the workplace. An example of this is women who apply for a job in which they have experience and excellent qualifications, but are not hired because some of the company's clients are more comfortable with men . Women are often told they are being laid off or laid off due to company cutbacks and reorganization, even though a man in the same position with less seniority than the woman keeps his job. Another problem women face in the workplace is getting promotions. Women who have worked for their company for many years, receive excellent reviews and employee of the year awards, are often staffed by less qualified men (Armour, 2008). The next problem women face is unfair salaries. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics found that women working 41 to 44 hours per week earn 84.6 percent of what men working a similar wage...... middle of paper .... ...ld. Women are most often stereotyped as only nurses or other lower level healthcare professionals. There is a huge difference between the percentage of men and the percentage of women when it comes to more advanced medical fields. A study by Reed and Fischer found that women are not promoted at the same rate as men in medical fields. They believe that women are underrepresented in top medical positions. The CEJA found that there is a large difference in salary between men and women. Studies show that the average female physician earns 34 percent less than her male counterpart. Female physicians are more likely to earn relatively low income and less likely to earn relatively higher income. For example, while 19 percent of female physicians earned less than $60,000, only 7 percent of male physicians earned less than that same amount (CEJA, 1994).