Sexism And Gender Discrimination

Gender oppression is a form of gender discrimination that is still thriving in our community. Incontrovertibly, it, however, transcends beyond masculinity or femininity. Since it does not act in disconnect, Gender oppression interconnects with discriminations which are based citizenship status, faith race, sexual orientation inter alia. Although tremendous strides have been realized towards the eradication of the vice in our community, it is nevertheless neatly interwoven into the very fabric of our society. This article will nonetheless delve into the very nature of the iniquitous deeds in our community exploring the extent the processes of securing and obtaining paid engagement as an employee, the expectations and status of jobs, assignments,

Hence sexism means and denotes any prejudice against an individual or a community based on their personage's or else the cluster's sex (Gruman, Schneider & Coutts, 2005, p.340). In this paper, therefore, the term sexism and gender discrimination will be used interchangeably and principally, being associated with stereotypical beliefs and discriminations against the female gender. Stereotypes are thus beliefs about the attributes, characteristics, and behaviours of members of certain sets of persons or individuals and are typically thus socio-culturally constructed (Schneider, Gruman & Coutts, 2005). Although Stereotypic ideas as well as beliefs as regards to women, they have overtime by some means changed in addition to having been improved, they still remain rampant and evident in many countries as well as in the otherwise referred to as the modernized

Women in most of these regions every so often have less access to education, productive resources, and factors of production besides lacking in the necessary skills development as well as the labour market opportunities than men in a number of these societies. Fundamentally, this is due to the persistent social norms which ascribe the gender roles, and are often very rigid and slow to change. Moreover, women continuously tend to undertake jobs that are customarily unpaid caring tasks and duties, which continuously make it difficult and increasingly challenging as far as their efforts to secure and engage in productive and remunerated labour. Furthermore, in the fields of market economy and likewise in subsistence agriculture especially in nations negatively affected by environmental challenges and HIV and AIDS these challenges are more profound and exponentially