Discrimination_Of_Women_In_The_Workforce

Discrimination Of Women In The Workforce Unfortunately, today, women are still paid less than men are, even when they do similar work and have similar education, skills and experience. Functional theory helps to explain why there is discrimination of women in the workplace and why it has lasted as long as it has. According to functional theory, society is based on stability and the cooperation of its parts to maintain that stability. Because of the longstanding tradition of women staying home while their husbands go to work, women fell into the roll in society of the domesticated housekeeper. Functional Theory states that society tends to maintain its equilibrium and that any change disrupts this equilibrium. Therefore, women joining the workforce have met a lot of resistance, and society has to make changes elsewhere - for instance recognizing the equality of women in the workforce - to compensate for these changes in order to reach equilibrium again. Another viewpoint is conflict theory, which stresses the competition between groups over limited resources. Conflict theorists believe that groups in power use their power to maintain their favorable position and to keep those without power from gaining so they will not jeopardize their position. From this point of view, the group women, theory, groups, because, work, power, discrimination, conflict, workforce, society, prejudice, peers, ethnic, workplace, unequal, therefore, position, pay, opinions, men, media, issue, equal, american, against, very, resources, problem, people, passed, make, maintain, important, help, group, functional