PSYC 300 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I. Gender AwarenesII. Barriers that Hinder Women’s AchievementIII. Study: Discrimination in HiringIV. Treatment DiscriminationV. Female Employment in Traditionally Male ProfessionsVI. Discrimination in a Male-Dominated ProfessionVII. Women in AcademeVIII. Women as LeadersIX. Gender Differences in SalariesX. Salary DiscriminationXI. Gender Differences in SalariesXII. Interesting StudyXIII. Women’s Job SatisfactionXIV. The Older Woman WorkerXV. Changing the WorkplaceOutline of Current Lecture I. Gender AwarenessII. Affirmative ActionIII. Changing the WorkplaceIV. RetirementV. Times are changing?VI. When women do not work…VII. Women as HomemakersVIII. Attitudes Toward Women’s Family and Employment RolesCurrent Lecture- Gender Awarenesso Diet coke “gardener ad”o Cycling race 2nd place winner grabbed the podium girl from behindo Is there a place for podium girls in the 21st century?o Mavis discount tire sued by EEOC for sex discrimination in hiringo All girls tire shop thriving in Texas - Affirmative Actiono What Is Affirmative Action? Programs and policies designed to eliminate employment discrimination against minorities and to redress the effects of past discrimination Have 3 major requirements Forms of Affirmative Action Programs (AAPs)- Nonpreferential treatment: training, recruiting, removal of practices- Preferential treatment: giving “extra points” due to group membership; not common and not popularo Controversy over AAPs Seems to violate the equity or equality –based definition of distributive justice Often misunderstood (i.e., “quotas”) Court decisions have forbidden strong preferential treatment and strict quotas for most conditions - Changing the Workplaceo Strategies for women Get access to information Join with others who experience similar inequitieso Strategies for organizations: Performance evaluations: timely, accurately, develop specific criteria Appoint leaders committed to equity - Price Waterhouse - Retirement- Times are changing?o Traditional Roles (today 1 in 5 children have stay-at home mother) Males: financial Females: house and childreno Modern Males: paid work is priority, some house/child work Females: may have paid work but house/child come first- The majority of married women with school-age children worko Egalitarian: equal relationships Chores/responsibilities based on preference/interest not traditional gender roles- When women do not work…o Effects of divorce 40-50% of marriages end in divorce in the US Divorced women more than 2x more likely to live in poverty than divorced meno Employment can help- Women as Homemakerso Homemakers Homemaker (20% of American women are full-time homemakers)- Recent survey of college students:o Only 16% of women and 27% and men felt that women should be full-time homemakerso Variety of Tasks Extensive Repetitious Frustrating Low in Prestige- Attitudes Toward Women’s Family and Employment Roleso Role of ethnicity Role of motherhood Age of children: a large % of Americans believe that women with small children should stay at home- Most recent research, most Americans now believe it is okay for women with small children to work (if there is a question about whether or not women with small children should work, the answer today is most people say that women should worko Personal aspirations Attitudes about combining motherhood and employment Attitudes toward women who combine motherhood and employment- Role of women’s own mother’s employment history-if a woman had a motherwho worked, they have more positive attitudes towards working with