Gender discrimination factors affecting female employees in private organizations: a case study in Bijapur city

Discrimination in the workplace crop up when the potential of a person is discriminated due to gender biasness. In private sectors female employees are facing gender discrimination in job opportunities due to numerous discriminatory features that have unconstructive impact on their working potential. These dynamics comprised of patriarchal structure of the society, prejudice for working women, lack of social support, inadequate professional encouragement, social taboos, gender biased attitude of male employees. The researcher assembled the data from 50 female employees that were working in Hospitals of Bijapur city through convenient sampling technique.

From the data the researcher institutes that male dominancy at work place, traditional myths appended with the working women, wage discrimination, gender specified job positions, mangers biasness, lack of trainings (especially for female employees) and inferiority complexes of men are the salient discriminatory factors that are facing by females in private sector organizations. Even the skilled females cannot infiltrate this due to miscellaneous stereotypes attached with the female job orientation. Passable implication of rules and regulations in private hospitals to exterminate the gender discrimination, sturdy monitoring system in organizations, formation of anti discriminatory policies as well as gender related educational programmes and trainings are the foremost remedies that can diminish the disparaging impacts on gender discrimination for female employees.