Gender Differences

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Gender discrimination

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Over the last few decades , the demand for equal treatment of the people in the society has increased globally . This has been due to revelation of negative effect that gender discrimination exerts to the society Indeed it has been a major icon in limiting the overall potential in the society by both genders . This has led to the rising demand for intervention by the local and international communities in addressing the negative vice in the society

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) Wal-Mart Faces Lawsuit Over Sex , By Steven Green House , New York Times , February 16 , 2003

In the year 2003 , Wal-Mart one of the largest national employer was faced with a lawsuit on its gender discriminating . Greenhouse reported that the organization was offering jobs in favor of men as opposed to women without enough premises for doing so . The article indicates that women constituted 65 of the organization 's hourly employees but only 33 were in the management positions . The report also claimed that discrimination was exhibited in the organization 's pay where men got higher salaries than women . To add to that , the San Francisco Federal Court was told that other disparities that favored men as opposed to women included promotions and area of operation in the giant organization

b ) House passes two measures on job bias , By Robert Pear , New York Times , January 9 , 2009

This article reports on the response by the congress to address the gender related biases in US . According...