From your personal experiences, have you seen this go on in your company that you work for?
2006-07-18 15:05:33 · 7 answers · asked by Jeff R 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes they do. Laws make it very difficult on them but there are still ways to get around the laws. A woman in corporate America will have to fight to make the same wage as the man.
2006-07-18 15:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by tobinmbsc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I have seen bias when I worked.
When as a female I worked for a male boss who thought he was being kind and considerate he did the following: first he
asked me to go home to ask my husband if it was OK for me to take a larger than normal raise because it would mean more responsibility and then he asked me if I had discussed it with my husband when I resigned!
Another male boss told me that he had never given so much money (as a bonus) to a female before.
My first job as a personnel assistant I got because they figured with my college degree and moderate typing speed, that i could learn to use a dictaphone.
Another company reprimanded a female for wearing a pants suit (this was many years ago!) while not mentioned that she also went bra-less.
Women had to quit work when they were in their 5th month of pregnancy.
It's not so bad today, but the bias still remains. T
here is a natural human tendency to want to work with people like yourself. Those who recruit are human so there is a natural bias to hire those that you feel most comfortable with, either because they are of the same age, the same sex, the same ethnicity.
2006-07-18 22:16:43 · answer #2 · answered by m15 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yes but not an unfounded bias. Male workers don't get pregnant and take 3 or 4 months off at a time. Male workers don't decide to drop their job in order to be a stay at home mom after the company has invested thousands of dollars in training them. And male workers don't get bitchy once a month.
2006-07-18 22:10:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course there's a bias. Men and women are different. So are ethnicities. Can you really blame an employer for noticing these differences?
2006-07-18 22:09:36 · answer #4 · answered by chemicalimbalance000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've seen it quite a bit. When I was a single parent, my boss knew he could push me and treat me poorly and I had to take it because I needed the job (which paid pretty decent) to support my kids.
2006-07-18 22:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by lilbitadevil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it catters to men. Big time.
2006-07-18 22:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-07-18 22:06:50 · answer #7 · answered by Ananke402 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋