Have you ever been discriminated against in the labor market and did it make economic sense? explain?

Question

Have you ever been discriminated against in the labor market and did it make economic sense? explain?

Answer 1

Yes.
I was not consider for a job because there was not "adequate" facilities to accommodate women on a ship.
I was told I could not work in the evenings unless I arranged to be escorted by a male coworker because I would not be safe. This was inside a secured government facility where you could not enter without a security clearance. There were no restrictions on men working alone.
When I interviewed for jobs they always inquired about my plans to have children until I was over 30.

These things happened before the civil rights acts of the 1960's became law and would be illegal today. They made no economic sense, but was in line with the cultural view of women's place in society at the time.

Answer 2

There are few situations in my existence once I even have permit racist comments, or people get to me. the main memorable ones have been in intense college. i assume they challenge me the main because of the fact it replace into throughout a time while i replace into changing, and that i replace into uncertain of myself. In my college, i replace into the minority. I noticeably keep in mind an English type I had with approximately 30 scholars, and purely myself and another pupil shared the comparable race. My instructor replace into additionally from a distinctive race. I keep in mind racial feedback my instructor use to make out loud in front of the entire type, any time i replace into assume to verify, or participate. It made me indignant. as a count number of reality, I enormously much have been given right into some fights in that type....understanding i could have been beat down. because of the fact no person replace into there to take my section. on a daily basis, as I walked to that type, i might post this indignant wall, as though i replace into on the factor of preserve myself. It replace into terrible....yet this is the element. people have stories like mine, and that they carry about that anger with them something of their existence. you are able to no longer try this. to furnish you a timeframe...I graduated in 1994, and this replace right into a pair years before.

Answer 3

Yes, I believe I have experienced gender discrimination in the workforce and no, it did not make economic sense.

I was a litigation paralegal in several different large law firms in Manhattan for approx. 13 years. I had wanted to work in media contract law. It's easier to be considered for such a paralegal position if one has done general transactional practice (referred to as "corporate" law) as a paralegal.

I took the job in Lit in order to gain legal work experience with the hopes of obtaining a job in Corporate so that I could eventually qualify for the job I wanted. At the time I began working as a paralegal, 95% of persons in the profession were female (nationally speaking). But in most firms I worked in (100+-660+ lawyers), the Corporate departments were staffed with approx. 80% - 100% males in the paralegal positions.

After my first year of experience, I sought a position in Corporate, even offering to start at an entry level salary again. (Corporate eventually pays higher salaries per year). I was told I could not have the job because I had no experience in transactions. Yet, every year these same firms would hire paralegals right out of college with no experience in law at all. I took overtime assignments in other departments so that I could display an ability to learn other areas. Still no dice. I heard the same tale of "no experience" yet watched the same hiring patterns over the course of 13 years at five different firms. I continued to take OT assignments, asking to help in corporate. I was repeatedly told I could not help in that department but that I COULD help in _____ - fill in the blank with some random practice area. (Bankruptcy, Labor, Patent, Trade dispute, Trusts and Estates, etc). But here's the thing. I didn't have experience in any of those areas at the time this work was offered either. I took the OT, but heard the same excuse over and over from managers and employment agents when it came to Corporate

I continued to ask for lower salaries than my experience would warrant. No dice.

After 13 years of trying every year, I finally got a position in a firm that did one of the most complex transactions to be found, structured finance for municipal bond issues. We were bond counsel.

That would mean that Affirmative Action reporting compliance applied to that section of that firm's business. (AA does NOT mean a [blank] MUST be hired.)

Once I got the position, I realized what I had begun to suspect. This sort of work was much easier to understand and could be learned much more quickly than litigation can.

"Economic" sense? I don't see how. If there is a physical component to the job at all, it's far more in Litigation than Corporate. Training investment? The training would be FAR less involved than remembering civil procedure in several different court systems across states. The UCC results in most transactions being performed the same way, despite whatever is being transacted for whatever purpose. (Meaning straight lending or project finance)

And as soon as I had the experience, what did I hear from employers and agents alike?

"But you don't have REAL corporate experience because you haven't done Blue Sky."

Blue Sky is very specialized to dealing with registered securities. At least then, it paid a good amount more than standard corporate jobs. It's most commonly used in Mergers and Acquisitions, when a public corp is involved. It's hardly something you walk right into out of college in firms like these. Most of the corporate paralegals I worked with in those firms never had cause to deal with EDGAR (SEC database) or registration of much at all, because most of them were not in M&A.

I got to media contract finally. But gender discrimination wasted 10 years of my life.