Discrimination in the Workplace
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights consists of thirty articles that provide citizens with what their rights are, or at least should be. It is evident that few of these articles hold true for modern day, as well as past, society. A majority of them are solely geared towards white people; more specifically white males of higher classes. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration is just one example of how certain individuals’ rights are being disregarded on a daily basis. This article declares that, “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work, and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for …show more content…
Though ridding the world of something that has existed for centuries seldom has a facile fix, we should not simply just surrender our attempts in ridding the world of unnecessary evils. One possible solution to this dilemma, at least in regards to being able to obtain an interview, is to create a law that states that no one is allowed to list their name on their résumé when sending it in to an employer with the hopes of getting a call back for an interview. Setting this in motion would grant everyone a fair chance so certain employers would not read the names Amarjeet or Leshaniqua and immediately disregard them without even examining their credentials, and instead opting to choose a Brett or an Emily to fill the empty …show more content…
As discussed earlier, there is a significant wage gap between genders. This wage gap varies from profession to profession, but there is ultimately still a wage gap. A survey of thousands of students who graduated with MBAs revealed that men had slightly higher salaries right out of school. Nine years into these graduates’ careers, women’s salaries only rose to about $250,000, while men's salaries tended to become an average of $400,000. According to these results, men were earning approximately 60 percent more than women. Why? One explanation, other than blatant sexism, that the highest-paying jobs “disproportionately reward those who can work the longest, least flexible hours” (Kliff), thus women, typically being the primary parent, cannot work as rigid hours as men. Not only have women been thrust into the role of the main caregiver, but they are additionally being punished financially wise for it. However, the gender wage gap does not just apply to mothers, for “if you sift through the data, the reality is still clear: the gender gap persists — and it persists for young, ambitious, childless women, too” (Bennett). Since it does not appear that this shameless inequality of pay will cease to exist in the near future, it is necessary to figure out the exact roots of this problem in order to attempt to rectify
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights consists of thirty articles that provide citizens with what their rights are, or at least should be. It is evident that few of these articles hold true for modern day, as well as past, society. A majority of them are solely geared towards white people; more specifically white males of higher classes. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration is just one example of how certain individuals’ rights are being disregarded on a daily basis. This article declares that, “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work, and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for …show more content…
Though ridding the world of something that has existed for centuries seldom has a facile fix, we should not simply just surrender our attempts in ridding the world of unnecessary evils. One possible solution to this dilemma, at least in regards to being able to obtain an interview, is to create a law that states that no one is allowed to list their name on their résumé when sending it in to an employer with the hopes of getting a call back for an interview. Setting this in motion would grant everyone a fair chance so certain employers would not read the names Amarjeet or Leshaniqua and immediately disregard them without even examining their credentials, and instead opting to choose a Brett or an Emily to fill the empty …show more content…
As discussed earlier, there is a significant wage gap between genders. This wage gap varies from profession to profession, but there is ultimately still a wage gap. A survey of thousands of students who graduated with MBAs revealed that men had slightly higher salaries right out of school. Nine years into these graduates’ careers, women’s salaries only rose to about $250,000, while men's salaries tended to become an average of $400,000. According to these results, men were earning approximately 60 percent more than women. Why? One explanation, other than blatant sexism, that the highest-paying jobs “disproportionately reward those who can work the longest, least flexible hours” (Kliff), thus women, typically being the primary parent, cannot work as rigid hours as men. Not only have women been thrust into the role of the main caregiver, but they are additionally being punished financially wise for it. However, the gender wage gap does not just apply to mothers, for “if you sift through the data, the reality is still clear: the gender gap persists — and it persists for young, ambitious, childless women, too” (Bennett). Since it does not appear that this shameless inequality of pay will cease to exist in the near future, it is necessary to figure out the exact roots of this problem in order to attempt to rectify