BY LAHLE WOLFE Updated November 28, 2018

Discrimination against women starts at birth. Gender lines are drawn early, and exclusions for women
continue throughout adulthood. These constant messages may lead to a false belief that women do not
belong in the corporate world. We Are All Born Into a World Filled With Stereotypes

From the moment we are conceived, both boys and girls are subjected to stereotypes. The baby aisle in
stores is filled with blue blankets and clothes for boys, while adjacent aisles are filled with pink for girls. A
few stores (for example, Target) are slowly starting to steer away from gender-focused marketing, but
stereotypes still persist.

Challenges in the form of discrimination for women begin in childhood as young girls may be brought up
to believe that they are only suited for certain professions or, in some cases, only to serve as wives and
mothers.

Gender lines are drawn early, and exclusions for women continue throughout adulthood.

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For women who return to work after 12 months full time, I haven’t met a woman who hasn’t said ‘I was
questioned why I was doing that,’ ” Jenkins said. “The underlying expectation is a woman should stay
home and also should be compromising their career, and that if they’re at work, even full time, they’re
not fully focused.“I’ve got ...many anecdotes but my personal experience was the same ... I was told,
basically, ‘Don’t worry about this, love. You’ll probably fall in love with your baby and want to stay home.’
And it’s like, well of course I’m going to fall in love with my baby, but I felt like my career was
dripping.”Jenkins made the comment in response to a senior female barrister who had asked, with the
kind of controlled anger that is probably terrifying in the courtroom, why people kept congratulating her
husband for knowing how to bake a cake.“I work seven days a week and my husband is doing his
doctorate,” she said. “People ask me who is looking after the children when I’m at court, people ask me
how many days a week I work, and people ask him, ‘How do you do it? You’re so amazing! You can cook
a cake and you can look after children!”The barrister was “just a little bit fed up” with the gendered
assumptions and the expectations and pressures placed on men and women to fit their given roles.“I
think this is a major problem,” Jenkins said. “It’s also a major problem for men: men want to engage as
parents, and children are better off when they’ve got parents who are engaged in their work but also
with them.”Jenkins had begun the talk with an anecdote about being approached by a male lawyer at
dinner one night who demanded to know why Australia had not achieved gender equality. Later, at the
same dinner, she had spoken to his wife, who had revealed that while her husband had made partner
she had dropped down to working two days a week – despite starting at the same law firm – to care for
their five-year-old twins.

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Societal norms, rules, and roles instruct and encourage men to value (or devalue) women even in the
United States even where there are anti-discrimination laws in place to discourage such attitudes.

In the workplace, women are frequently subjected to subtle discrimination by both sexes. Qualified
women may be passed over for promotions because they become pregnant (pregnancy discrimination).
Jobs may be offered to a less qualified male applicant just because he is male. Women are also more
likely to be judged by their looks and how they dress than their male counterparts. On a note of
contradiction, women are not only discriminated against for being pretty or provocative they are also
discriminated against for being not pretty enough, too old, or, in some positions (especially sales and
public relations) for not being sexy enough.

If men get more time off, better compensation packages, or more benefits than women based on unfair
gender bias, it's also gender discrimination and it is illegal.

Despite protective anti-discrimination laws making gender discrimination illegal, management practices
at small, mid-size, and even giant corporations often still favor the advancement of men.

Companies Sued for Discrimination Against Women

Microsoft. Women at Microsoft filed 238 complaints with the company's HR department between 2010
and 2016, including 108 complaints about sexual harassment and 119 about gender discrimination.
There were also eight complaints of retaliation and three about pregnancy discrimination.

Jimmy Fallon. Paul Tarascio, a former stage manager for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon filed a lawsuit
against NBC Universal, Fallon, and employees of Late Night, alleging that the show has a gender bias. In
papers filed in 2013, Paul Tarascio claimed he was demoted while working for Fallon after being told by
Late Night director David Diomdi, “Jimmy just prefers to take direction from a woman.” Tasarscio lost his
court case.

The gender equality means that both men and women, as human being, have equal rights and
opportunities irrespective of gender. It also refers that all people (men and women) must have equal
right to develop their personal abilities and free to make personal choices. State or society will not
discriminate between men and women on the basis of gender. Moreover, gender equality emphasis that
natural or biological difference between men and women will not lead to difference in status and rights
in all sphere of life between men and women (www. http://global.finland.fi).

According to World Bank (2012),

In the recent decades, some significant progress has been made towards the gender issue. For instance,
literacy rate among the women are increasing gradually, gender gap in ,primary and secondary level
enrollment rate reduced remarkably, and women participation in labor force higher than ever before
over the world. Despite of considerable progress in reducing gender gap, there still exists huge
discrimination against women in different sectors such as women have less access than men to resources
and economic opportunity. Furthermore, they have limited access to a wide range of services and the
movement of women is still restricted in many societies (World Bank, 2012).

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