Gender Inequality In A Grocery Store

Working in a grocery store you see many gender inequality situations. For instance, I’ve noticed that the majority of the cashier’s are women, while the men are the ones stocking freight. Many of the co-workers assure that they do not discriminate in any job position whether you’re a female or male, yet the women seem to be doing the easy positions. Although, the majority of managers in departments seem to all be woman and at times seem to be better than the men. As in night crew, all of the employees are men and a single woman is in charge of facing the whole store, yet there is no gender inequality in that scenario. Gender inequality still exist in today’s workplace even if you don’t notice all you have to do is play close attention and you

will realize it. Another example, I’ve noticed as well is I work in the bakery and everyone there is female, but in the produce department all are men, why is that? Is it because bakery is a female position and produce is a manly job? I believe in the job description it never stated that produce was only for men and that bakery was only for women. Personally, I worked in the dairy department that for the longest time was only consisted on men till I asked to be placed there. I will admit that at first stacking heavy milk crates and eggs was overwhelming, but I never gave up. Many were impressed that a woman was doing a manly job and I loved it. It was heavy work, but I wanted to prove them that a woman was capable of working back there. At the time, the store manager was a woman and her assistant was a male. Tammy was her name and while she was the store manager she tried making the departments more diverse between the male and female. As a woman, I felt she knew about the gender inequality in the workplace and that is what makes her take actions. The workplace needs to be more equal and everyone should be able to apply or receive any position that they want or have worked towards. If you are female or male should not stop you from what you most desire because you are capable of being or doing whatever you want.