How are women allowed to practice workplace or job discrimination?
Dan G asked:
If you look into all of the medical hospitals/clinics, job placement centers/human resource departments, or administrative offices, and schools, you will see that it’s staffed by nearly 99 % women employees. Now if that isn’t job or workplace descrimination, then I don’t know what is.
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If you look into all of the medical hospitals/clinics, job placement centers/human resource departments, or administrative offices, and schools, you will see that it’s staffed by nearly 99 % women employees. Now if that isn’t job or workplace descrimination, then I don’t know what is.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Women are smart!
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:56 am
That’s b/c they are lower paid. When the salaries go up the boys all of a sudden get interested. It’s called the “pink ghetto.” Been living in a cave?
February 4th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
No, but they do it all the time anyway.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Not if they want the job.
February 7th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
The discrimination is when the 1% of men who do those jobs get paid more even if they do an inferior job.
But I don’t think your statistics are correct, at all. I think you just pulled those numbers out of your bum.
February 10th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
If you consider that far more women work in offices, it shouldn’t be a surprise that more staff workers are women. It isn’t workplace discrimination, it’s simply a question of numbers. I’m sure if more men had the desire to be an administrative assistant, they too could. In the 12 years I was an admin, I only met 1 male secretary. In fact, I went to one of the more prestigious secretarial training schools in the US and was told by one of my teachers there that while there had been men graduate from there, no man had ever been certified (passing specific skill levels over and above what was required to graduate.)
February 12th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Maybe more men should apply. Most clerical type, teaching, and medical (other than doctors) job applicants are women. You want to see more men in these jobs, more men should apply.
February 14th, 2009 at 8:06 am
I don’t believe this is discrimination. It is just that these types of jobs attract more female candidates. Many of these employers would like to hire more males but are unable to find qualified candidates who are interested in these jobs, It would only be discrimination if an employer located a qualified candidate and refused to hire him on the grounds that he is a man. Actually there is still a bit of reverse discrimination in that when men do take these types of jobs they often have an advantage as they are seen as more promotable.
February 17th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Yep, so it is.