Theories Of Work Case Study

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3. FEMINIST THEORIES OF WORK ( add some theories from the book, such as sexual theory)
Workplaces are key sites for the reproduction of gender, race sexual orientation and social class inequalities and employers and coworkers whether consciously or not how play roles in keeping some groups insubordinate statuses and in superordinate ones. Choose one subordinated group print the CIE, women, racial ethnic minorities, Sexual minorities, or lower/working-class people") and describe the mechanisms in workplaces and the actions of employers and coworkers that perpetuate the groups subordinate status. What policies could be enacted to change the situation, and which are most likely to be effective? Workplaces are key sites for the reproduction of …show more content…

I personally work in a place where in the office was all ladies, and the warehouse was all males that were working. There was a rough amount of employees in the warehouse and I would assume that there would have been some females. However, there were no women working in the warehouse at all. Another strategy to help change the situation would be to contact the CEO and discuss the matter to help that there should not be gender segregation for this type of job position because it is unfair for those women that are interested and that are skilled of this job. Moreover, the women may interested and have pervious job experience where there is heavy lifting of supplies. But employers would routinely toss out the application if the candidate is a women without even taking a glance at their job experience. Another method would be to select the top 5 women from the pile of applicants and do a cross training for two weeks without pay to see who is most capable because this would definitely to be

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