Gender Discrimination In Russia

Gender discrimination or normally known as sexual discrimination is a practice of discriminating a person's sex unfairly which become a factor that affect the life of a person. When deciding who should receives a job, promotion and other employment benefit the gender discrimination will appear especially when it comes between a man and a woman that is interviewing for the post. Mostly the post will go to the man because to them, the man is more hardworking and more easy to do a job without trouble. Nowadays, around the world, there are also some countries that is still practicing the gender discrimination such as the countries in Asia,Africa,Europe and Latin America.

In Russia, the gender discrimination still existed at the workplace. The women often being discriminate from the men because the women constitute the most expensive part of the workplace. Further more, the employers also need to pay for the childcare and to let them to take off when their children are sick. For the employers, this will make them to make more expenses and is hard for the women workers to focusing on their job. Besides, in Russia there are no infrastructure for care of the elderly compare to other developing country. So, to them the woman should stay at home and taking care of the house chores and looking after the children which they say is the obligation of the women. At this point, it tell that the women cannot compete with the men in an equal basis.

In addition, during the Soviet times the women only get 75% from the total salary of the men. Nowadays, on average they get about 60% only. But the statistics cannot be reliable because of the way it is being calculated. Other than salary, the mobility of the women are also being compare. The women had horizontal mobility while the men had vertical mobility in the workplace. At that time, it is not the ability that you have that is being judge but is how long you have been working at the workplace. But by follow the tradition then the men is the one who should appoint the higher positions than women and it is still the same at this time.

In a nutshell, the women has been taught how to set up their own businesses so that they can make money by them own. Next, they are also being encouraged to work in the mass media so that they can use their power to change the stereotypes. The movies also can be use as the encourager for the women by showing the elegant, professional of a women in positions of power.