Sexism In The Workplace Research Paper

I used to work at a physical therapy office. There were about 15 employees, and the majority of them were female. I did not think too much about diversity there because I had not learned about it yet. I wish I had learned about it before I started working there or in the first few months, because it might have saved me from working in misery for three and a half years.
One of my co-workers, Joe, made a comment to me one day that would be defined as sexism, a belief that women are less capable or less valuable than men. It was the end of the shift and we were cleaning up the office. I was filing charts away, so I asked Joe to do the dishes to help out. He laughed at me and told me to clean the dishes because I am a girl. I believe he might have …show more content…
People might think of guys as fire fighters, police officers, or even garbage men. Women might be thought of as nurses, teachers, and stay at home moms, who clean the house, including the dishes. However, these assumed gender roles should not define people. It does not matter who cleans the dishes or who takes out the trash. What matters is that workers work as a team to get the job done.
In addition to making a sexist comment, Joe also showed prejudice and discrimination to females. He thought that dishes should only be done by women and he said that thought out loud with a laugh to me. At the time, Joe probably thought he was just making a joke to his co-workers, but I was clearly offended by the way I told him to take out the trash. My comment about the trash should not have happened; it did not make me any better than Joe in the …show more content…
The IAT tests mostly confirmed that the beliefs I thought I had, were right, although there were a few surprises. Mostly everyone has some sort of belief that favors one group over another and might have gotten these from growing up in a certain culture or learning it from someone, but we need to be aware of these thoughts that way we do not offend anyone. Joe should have kept the comment about girls doing dishes to himself and I should have not spat back with telling him to take out the trash because he is a guy, but not being aware of how thoughts like these can offend people made us both open our mouths.
In this organizational behavior class, I learned a lot about myself and my current and past job. There were many key terms that will help me as a business student, but the one that stood out to me the most was onboarding, which is when employees are brought in for paperwork and training of a new job. When I started my new job at a swim school in November, they told me to come in for onboarding, and I half expected to walk onto a ship. Now, I will not be so lost to business words in future