Behavioral Motivations of Gender Discrimination on the Labor Market in Romania
Gender discrimination can be explained at the level of segregation on the labor market by the employers’ perceptions about male and female workforce, by the level of development of a country, employers and employees. In any society, people are categorized from the attributes (s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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General Association of Economists from Romania
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Theoretical and Applied Economics |
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http://store.ectap.ro/articole/539.pdf
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| Summary: | Gender discrimination can be explained at the level of
segregation on the labor market by the employers’ perceptions about male
and female workforce, by the level of development of a country, employers
and employees.
In any society, people are categorized from the attributes
(stereotypical or not) which are supposed to be shared with their own
group. Usually these attributes are anticipated based on stereotypes
conveyed on behalf of different groups (Goffman, 1974). Stereotypes are
those beliefs and opinions about the characteristics of men and women.
The features associated with the two groups generally show us not only
how men and women are perceived, and also how it should be.
Stereotyping can be the basis for the discriminatory treatment in most
cases (Linville, Salovey, Fisher, 1986).
In this article we presented the main theories that can explain the
wage discrimination and we analyzed the discriminatory attitudes of
gender on the Romanian labor market using the Economic and social
cohesion survey. |
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| ISSN: | 1841-8678 1844-0029 |