Sex Discrimination and Culture
Abstract
Most Western nations ascribe to the belief that equal opportunity of the sexes is a worthy objective even if it has rarely been realised in practice. The overriding cause of sex discrimination is the persistence of customs that harken back to an age when work roles were justified by physical differences. This same division of labour can be found in the most economically advanced nations even though technology has supplanted all but a few vestiges of this pre‐industrial argument. The intellectual justification for opening up opportunities for women are remarkably ineffective in the face of sheer habit.
Citation
Moore, R.W. and Jacobsohn, I.E. (1989), "Sex Discrimination and Culture", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 20-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010513
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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