Gender Inequality in the Workplace

.workplace discrimination continues to be epidemic (Jones , 1996 These words of Gilbert F . Casellas , chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are the basis of the unsung fact of intolerance The EEOC was created in 1964 during the women 's right marches and during a time when the nation was keen on listening to such vibrant speakers as Betty Freidan , Simone de Beauvoir , and others , and in the process of listening the government responded by setting up the commission so that workplace environments could be closer to attaining the goal of equality

br through being blind to color , race , ethnicity , sex , or religion Through this , the government hoped to begin the process of leveling the hatred and prejudice involved in the workplace and ensures that every American had an opportunity to attain and keep a job . It is the job of the EEOC to enforce such a hope . The issue of how EEO policies fail or enlighten the work environment for women will be discussed in this br

In the inequality involved in women in the workforce there is a sociological view of how this inequality is categorized : Kinglsey Davis and Wilbert Moore gave sociology the theory of functionalism . This theory states that every society separates its products , its money , and its services on the grounds of job difficulty and relevance to a society , or on the function that a specific job provides more for a society . Due to a job and what gender performs that job function being more important to society or more functional , then society is willing to play the stratification game . Since these functional jobs and the difference between the assumed capabilities of men or women performing them there is also stratification in monetary reward . Society has a top echelon of jobs which they consider able to be filled only by a man or only by a women : The lower rung of this system includes mostly the feminine persuasion . Functionalism fully believes in the rat race of society and exemplifies it through the power elite system and through gender inequality . Functionalism states that there are critical jobs ones so important to society (like saving a life ) that the measurement of that person 's importance has to be reflected monetarily Functionalist expresses inequality through the bases of the nature of the occupational system . As Davis and Moore state , Social inequality is thus an unconsciously evolved device by which societies insure that the most important positions are conscientiously filled by the more qualified persons (Baldridge , 158

For these power elite , their reliance on women maintaining lower level jobs is clear the contingency exists that without one the other cannot perform . Job importance is not the value system that functionalism advocates it is merely the way in which society reacts to the class system it is within the paradigm of society that roles are created which pander to the elitism of the top echelon where men are sought to hold high office . For a capitalist society this is especially...