Women’s Gender Discrimination Difference in Workplace

Abstract

Although many studies have pointed to the fact that women directly experience gender discrimination, relatively little has been explored about which individual and organizational variables of women in the workplace are more sensitive to gender discrimination. This article has been conducted in an attempt to investigate the individual and organizational characteristics of female workers who are sensitive to gender discrimination. A total of 415 participants were included in this study. The results indicate that while participants' age, salary, and position are significantly and negatively related to gender discrimination; tenure years is significantly and positively related to gender discrimination. Besides, participants' education is not significantly relative to gender discrimination. Furthermore, while participants who have no spouses perceive greater gender discrimination than those who have spouses; participants whose careers are ever intermittent perceive greater gender discrimination than those whose careers are never intermittent. In addition, according to the organizational variables, firm size is significantly and negatively related to gender discrimination. While participants who work in production or administrative department perceive greater gender discrimination than those who work in sales department; participants who work in manufacture industry perceive greater gender discrimination than those who work in service industry. The results can serve as a basis for understanding women's cognition of gender discrimination in the workplace.