The business problem that we are going to discuss concerns the differences in treatment regarding gender. Actually, in the work environment, women and men are considered, paid and hired differently. This has always been the case and even if we can see improvements, there are still big gaps in salaries, employments and positions. But the main and more important gap existing is to be found in the mentality of people. People, and moreover men still can't understand that a woman can be as effective and efficient as a man. These mentalities come from the fact that women have always been considered as the ‘second sex' and not able enough to work. They were supposed to grow up their children, be good housewives and serve their husbands who were the only ones to work for the household. But during the Second World War, women were obliged to work to build weapons, as men had gone to war. This is the age when women entered the work market, because at the end of the war, they kept their place there, and kept working, even if at this period, it was not frequent. Step by step, they finally took an important place in the work environment which brings men to get worried and to discriminate them. 50 years later, mentalities have evaluated but even there have been important evolutions, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the actual gap that there is between men and women at work, considering the changes and the evolution of the last 50 years. There is now a notion of parity that that has been created to set up some rules and quotas for women to be respected by companies, governments, and so on. But, even with these regulations, the situation for women is not all that better. We will try to understand why there is still such important gender discrimination, how it is observable and how women feel about being considered as a minority.
[...] He is trying to improve the situation of women concerning the gap between their salaries and men. It explains that for one dollar earned by a man, a woman earns only 59 cents, in spite of similar positions. According to him, this difference in salaries comes more from the career choices of women than from discrimination, even if he recognizes that discrimination does exist. He says that women prefer their quality of life than their quality of salary. According to me, this sounds right, but some women who don't have any time for them because they are working hard and a lot are not paid as men, whereas they have the same quality of life as them. [...]
[...] SUM-UP and RECOMMENDATIONS Thanks to all those articles, we can see clearly how the difference between men and women is created. It is shocking. The facts are right there. Women are under employed. This is because first of all, the mentality of people is still difficult to change. Moreover, women have babies, so they need some maternity holidays, and this is a loss for companies. These 2 facts are still the main reasons why women are underemployed and sometimes underestimated. [...]
[...] He thinks that setting up quotas is not a way to solve the problem of parity in companies because quotas can't be the same in the cosmetic industry than in the construction one. This concept of ‘Bonus and Malus' has already been started on the 1st of January 2010, but only regarding senior employment. This is the same type of discrimination: seniors are considered weaker and then are less employed even if they have competences. The fact is that companies often prefer to pay malus than hire more women. [...]
[...] This shows that the engagements taken up by companies concerning equality between men and women are not respected but nonetheless, this represents arguments for companies to be conscious and worried about this case. These articles were concerning the situation in France. It is also interesting to see how women are considered in other countries. - http://www.ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=38820 In Latin America, the situation of women is worse than in France, because women are really relegated at the second place, in the work environment and also in the family life. [...]
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