MGT 467 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Sex Segregation
Document Summary
Discrimination exists everywhere and denies opportunities for individuals and robs societies of what those people can and could contribute. Sex and gender: status of women around the world. Disparities in access to education and women"s disproportionate share of home and child care contribute to discrimination against women. Women around the world are participating in the workforce at higher rates than ever before. In some countries, women now participate at about 80% of the rate than men do. Sex segregation of jobs is common and women are considerably less likely to be in high-status or managerial positions than their proportions in the population and workforce participation would suggest. Women most likely to be targeted for sexual harassment are young, financially dependent, divorced or never married, and migrant. In industrialized nations, women occupy at most 10% of the highest positions. More than 600 million people worldwide have disabilities and 386 million of them are of working age.
