The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines Sex Discrimination; involves treating someone (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because of that person sex/ gender. (EEOC, 2015). Most people apply for a job they feel that they are suitable for or have experience in, Most of the time when sex discrimination play a part in the work place; it based on that fact that two individuals doing the same job, but one getting paid a lot more. Majority of time this take place when the employees are male and female, the male will get paid more.
The first federal legislation to deal directly with this issue of discrimination was the Equal Pay Act in 1963. (Jennings, 2010). However, equality was expanded beyond the issue of pay less than a year later …show more content…
In Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228, 235 (1989), the plaintiff was denied a promotion because her employer felt she needed to be more feminine. (Muñoz, & Kalteux, 2016). The case Waterhouse v. Hopkins stated that she needed to be more feminine in order to receive a promotion, is absurd. What does her femininity has to do with her rather she gets a promotion or not as long as she was doing her job and doing it well should not have had an effect and she should have won this …show more content…
The saying silent is acceptance is true. Your voice is meant to be heard, if you don’t speak up for yourself speak up for someone else or for better words take action against those who discriminate against you!
Sex discrimination is unfair, unjust and unethical and we know this to be fact. But if we don’t take a stand against sex discrimination it would only get worse, then we have to see that this type of discrimination hits women a lot harder in the huge companies, because a lot of time these company not looking for women to be as educated as the male co- workers.
Wake- up and do something about it now! More and more women are becoming educated in the field in-which they thought only males would work or dominate, and in some of these businesses today women have a lot more education then their male co-workers, in fact some of those same women you discriminate against are the same women who are becoming owners, managers, and supervisors. Be careful how you treat people it make hurt you
The first federal legislation to deal directly with this issue of discrimination was the Equal Pay Act in 1963. (Jennings, 2010). However, equality was expanded beyond the issue of pay less than a year later …show more content…
In Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228, 235 (1989), the plaintiff was denied a promotion because her employer felt she needed to be more feminine. (Muñoz, & Kalteux, 2016). The case Waterhouse v. Hopkins stated that she needed to be more feminine in order to receive a promotion, is absurd. What does her femininity has to do with her rather she gets a promotion or not as long as she was doing her job and doing it well should not have had an effect and she should have won this …show more content…
The saying silent is acceptance is true. Your voice is meant to be heard, if you don’t speak up for yourself speak up for someone else or for better words take action against those who discriminate against you!
Sex discrimination is unfair, unjust and unethical and we know this to be fact. But if we don’t take a stand against sex discrimination it would only get worse, then we have to see that this type of discrimination hits women a lot harder in the huge companies, because a lot of time these company not looking for women to be as educated as the male co- workers.
Wake- up and do something about it now! More and more women are becoming educated in the field in-which they thought only males would work or dominate, and in some of these businesses today women have a lot more education then their male co-workers, in fact some of those same women you discriminate against are the same women who are becoming owners, managers, and supervisors. Be careful how you treat people it make hurt you