Gender Discrimination

Gender discrimination is when a woman or man is treated unfairly based on their gender. It is when a person is falsely judged for gender reasons during any situation in life. Discrimination based on gender is a common civil rights violation. Some examples of gender discrimination is unequal pay for the same employment and denying access due to gender.

 

Women are discriminated all around the world as many societies still value patriarchy. This includes sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination and forced domestic roles. Women every so often get attacked through sexual harassment, physical and verbal harassment simply because of their gender. These offensive acts are a clear violation of women’s rights. Despite gender discrimination occurring through harassment, cultures also have a great part in this issue. In many countries, people often treat women and girls as the inferior, as the gender who is expected to not succeed in the economic society, however will take on household chores and hold a dominant role in raising their children. This expectation of women is what is called gender discrimination.

 

                                                                                                                                                         Women In Workforce                                                                                    In   some   cases   women   do   not   get   the   opportunities                                                                                       in    the     work     force    because    of     gender.   This    is                                                                                         discriminataion     towards    gender.    Other   forms   of                                                                                             gender    discrimination   includes    pregnancy,     family

                                                                                    responsibilities  and   maternity   care.   Such  opportunities

                                                                                    that   women  may   be   deprived    are    raises,   promotions                                                                                     and    sick    leave. Women also   continue    to     experience                                                                                      the   gender  pay    gap  due   t0   assumption   of    capability                                                                                     in the  work  force.

 

Women In Parliament

In  Australia  women  are  underepresented  in  parliment 

with  only  one-third of   women  being  parliamentarians and  

one-fifth  ministers. This means  men are dominating roles

in     parliament.   This   may  be   the  cause  of   society's

attitude towards women as incompetent to be involved as our  

leadership.

 

For example, in 2012 Juilia Gillard made a speech about her experiences of sexism in parliment. This  was directed at our current priminister Tony Abott.