Gender Discrimination in the work place

          The gender gap at work is still alive and well according to new research that examined gender roles in the workplace.
          The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cites women working 41 to 44 hours per week earn 84.6% of what men working similar hours earn. It gets worse as women work longer hours — women working more than 60 hours per week earn only 78.3% of what men in the same time category earn.
          Dr.Elisabeth Kelan, Ph.D., from King’s College London found that workers acknowledge gender discrimination is possible in modern organizations, but at the same time maintain their workplaces to be gender neutral. The author notes “gender fatigue” as the cause for workers not acknowledging that bias against women can occur.
          People think that gender discrimination happened sometime ago and will nto happen again in the near future. They expect women to get over the discrimination and move on with their jobs saying that such discrimination will not happen again. however, this discrimination has been going on for a long time and no one is doing anything to stop it. Individuals tire of acting upon gender discrimination in spite of the fact that incidents of gender bias either occurred at one time within their organization or could occur again. This "laziness" on the part of individuals makes gender discrimination a hard topic to address. "Gender Fatigue" should be overcome to ensure equal job opportunities and equal pay for all.