Gender And Women In The Workplace
...Review 2
Gender diversity in a workplace 2
Women in the workplace 3
Conclusion 8
References 9
Gender diversity: Gender diversity and women in the workplace
Introduction
Gender diversity was not taken into consideration and most companies have very little knowledge on how to take advantage of it.
Despite the effort to increase diversity of workforce over recent decades, the number of female and minority executives has remained disproportionately low. (Celia & Antonio, 2007)
It may not be true for every country. In the USA women now represent approximately half of the working population, while in the UK women constitute just over 50 per cent of the total workforce and considerable evidence has been gathered that these women are mostly in the executive level positions (Cross & Linehan, 2006)
According to leading US research organisation Catalyst, there is a difference between companies that managed to take advantage of gender diversity and those companies that did not. (Robinson, 2008)
It is therefore important that an organisation should take a closer look at the issue of gender diversity internally within their workforce which could help see how it impacts their operation. (Farrer, 2004)
Literature Review
Gender diversity in a workplace
Heilman and Welle (1998) conducted a study whereby the effects of diversity initiatives on the perceptions of competence were examined. . This study was further revealed by Hartel (1998) that ‘telling people that gender diversity was a consideration in group member selection increases stereotyping’. Gender-role stereotype is a reflection of people’s perception of differences in personality traits and behaviors related to a person’s gender (Lueptow et al., 2001; Moskowitz et al., 1994).
While social change over the past 50 years has been widespread, research has shown that it has not been followed...
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