Gender Inequality In Malaysia Workplace
This study aims to identify the workplace gender equality or inequality in term of pay promotion decision making and training and development based on employees perceptions in private sector kedah.
Gender inequality in malaysia workplace. With 70 of decision making roles in the corporate sector in malaysia held by men it will be difficult to accelerate gender parity when many of those in positions of influence do not see any. For people who have never experienced gender inequality in the workplace it might be challenging to understand why having equal rights in the workplace is important. Perhaps what s most frustrating is that malaysia ranked 104 out of 144 countries indicating that gender inequality is still a very real issue in our country. The findings of the world economic forum s most recent gender gap report for example tell us that gender equality can only be achieved in 200 years.
Gender discrimination exists when women for example are treated less favourably or suffer detrimental treatment at the workplace as a result of unreasonable differential treatment between men and women. Having gender equality isn t just an important issue for women. According to christine wright managing director of hays in asia progress towards workplace gender equality is hindered by the lack of people more often than not men who fail to see any problem. You need to implement company wide policies that promote equity you need to train executives and employees across all levels on biases and you need to engage the privileged group men in discussions on why gender balance is important.
Specifically this paper identifies the relationships between gender equality inequality. Such inequality is hardly unique to the united states however. Workplace gender equality is also directly related to the overall economic performance of corporations and in general the whole country. The recently concluded 2018 gender equality report jointly conducted by jobstreet and jobsdb revealed that there is a need to bridge the gender gap.