Assessment Type: Individual Essay 1,500 words Purpose: The assessment allows students to plan, research and analyse a specific case relating to an ethical issue that has occurred in the current...

GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN WORKPLACES
Table of Contents
Introduction    2
Gender Discrimination in Workplaces    2
Forms of Gender Discrimination in Workplaces    2
Strategies to Eliminate Gender Discrimination in Workplaces    4
Conclusion    5
References    6
Introduction
Ethical issues often appear as moral conflicts in business platforms, whether through business agreements or establishing fresh business ideas. Outside of everyday issues regarding sales and productions, ethical issues in a business cannot be neglected and arise a difficult challenge for any business owner. In other words, it is an occasion where a moral standard is questioned. Ethical issues can be imprinted as violating of moral values and social norms. As the company environment is becoming complex in the 21st century, companies of every size face a multitude of ethical issues like honesty, integrity, professional behavior and environmental issues. However, issues that are more complex include gender discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It was found from a 2009 National Business Ethics survey, that numerous of employees observed and faced ethical misconduct incorporated abusive behavior, discrimination, improper hiring practices and company resource abuse. In accordance to the Global Business Ethics survey of 2018, it was found that most of the employees believe that their company has a toxic working culture, which endorses ethical misconducts and very less initiatives are taken to reduce the ethical misconducts.
Gender Discrimination in Workplaces
Gender discrimination in a human resource context refers natural and obvious distinction between the male and female species of humanity. A man and a woman complement each other in the formation of a family; so do men and women work together to make a nation capable of standing on its leg. However, physically, and often mentally, there is a dissimilitude between the two genders, and it has led to women being regarded as subordinate to men, physically and cere
ally. As opined by Triana et al. (2019), gender inequality in a workplace occurs when an employee is treated differently, unfairly because of their gender. It has been over a century, but negative gender stereotypes are still an issue that plagues the careers of many women. Conversely there are many cases, which point towards reverse discrimination, with men complaining that the women in their firm receive greater favors and are treated more leniently-a phenomenon perhaps in line with their stereotypical role as the "fairer sex".
Forms of Gender Discrimination in Workplaces
In a TNS Research survey, 68% of women responded that gender discrimination is quite customary in the workplace. As opined by Dunham (2017), the prominent form of gender inequality is paying less to women employees and giving them less scope of promotions. Even if a woman's qualification, skill and experience are adequate, a man gets a lucrative and important designation in the administration. Under federal law, if a woman performs as efficiently as men perform and achieves the same organizational targets and spends the exact allotted hours, she is entitled to be given as much salary and incentives as a man will be given within the company. It is clearly depicted in The Civil Rights Act of 1964 that it is against federal law to be gender biased in terms of recruitment (Parker & Funk, 2017). The same law, too, specifies that termination from...