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8. Gender preferences in the workplace are necessary to protect workers from discriminatory practices. Gender preferences in the work place makes total sense and having to choose between men and women is sometimes necessary for a better quality work. The choice between men and women can be important for time purposes and quality. For example would you rather have a big strong man working in a storage room moving 100 pound plus objects or a small women? or even would you rather have that big strong man painting women's nails or a women? (Smith). That makes sense, but what doesn't make sense is that people think that just because a work place denies a job to a different gender than preferred that it is discrimination. Discrimination by definition is, to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of a group, in the work place they aren't making distinctions on groups but on skills (Gender Discrimination). Overall women and men are being evaluated on skills and quality work, but it is necessary to choose a gender over another in a lot of cases
 * QUESTION 8: PRO-A Domenic Treboni

Work Cited:

"GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE." //Online Psychology Self Help Book//. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. < [|http://www.psychologyhelp.com/work145.htm] >.

Smith, Ryan A. "Race, Gender and Authority in the Work Place." //JSTOR//. Web. 18 Oct. 2011. . || QUESTION 8: PRO-B Matt Young

There should be gender preferences in the workplace to help with discipline, safety, and time. If a handyman company is looking for people to help move heavy objects, you would probably hire a stronger male to do it so that it takes less time. "Gender stereotypes are cultural constructs, shared at the societal level, that describe what men and women are "known" to be like" (Gorman). Also in the military men and women are not in the same group in training and on the battlefield so that if two people get shot in battle and one is a man and one is a woman who is rescued first is not based on sex but more on ranking. In the New York Times there was an article posted that stated "Separation by gender would reduce potential discipline problems" especially in the military for rescue purposes. Gender separation in the workplace is necessary to do a job effectively and well and in a disciplined, timely, and safe manner.

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Gorman, Elizabeth H. "Gender Stereotypes, Same-Gender Preferences, and Organizational Variation in the Hiring of Women: Evidence from Law Firms." University of Virginia, Web. 19 Oct. 2011. .

"The New Military Segregation." //The New York Times//(1997): 1. Print. || Michael Mitiska
 * QUESTION 8: CON-A

I believe that gender preferences are not needed in the workplace to help protect workers from discriminating practices. Over the years women have always feel that they aren’t getting paid the same or getting the same treatment than a man doing the same job would but in the past decade some of this has changed. An article posted by psychologyhelp.com titled Gender Discrimination in the workplace stated “equal pay for equal work has arrived in the workplace for women, Hispanics and African-Americans (it has been there for some time for Asian-Americans and gays).” This shows that women and others have gotten some of their rights back in the workplace. According to a writer for the daily mail, “ The prevailing stereotype that women in business are too sensitive or not as competent can stop them from advancing through the so-called 'glass ceiling'. However, once a woman has shattered that barrier, these qualities actually work in her favor”. They later went on to say that women are, in some cases, better than men at running a business. These articles state how women were sometimes discriminated in the workplace but now they are obtaining the same pay as men and are sometimes better suited for many jobs.

Works Cited

“GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE.” //psychologyhelp//. N.p., 1999. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. .

“Women in top jobs are viewed as ‘better leaders’ than men.” //dailymail// 14 May 2010: n. pag. //Mail online//. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. . || QUESTION 8: CON-B Becca Jaskot

There should not be gender preferences in the workplace. Preferences would be use to protect workers from discrimination (mostly women) but, in a way it causes discrimination by separating the genders in a way that can create the thought of sexism. Women are discriminated against because of their ideas, opinions, and physical differences but our country has worked hard to get rid of inequality and discrimination against people who are seen as “different”; And as Givi Garcia pointed out in his project __Title IX Women’s Right Act in 1972__, that isn’t everybody in the society different and have disagreements with others? Sexism is unrealistic because women have proved throughout the years that they can be just as good and sometimes better at doing something than a man. Amendment 19 gives women the right to vote which that shows equality between the sexes and it shows that women intelligent enough to comprehend what is going on in the world. Also, gender preferences are debated about being either constitutional or moral, but in a way it’s both: Amendment 14, Amendment 19, and knowing what’s right. Amendment 14 states that “[no] State [should] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws (Constitution)”, meaning that any American citizen should be treated equally (under the laws) and gender preferences within the workplace provides inequality between two groups of people. Gender preferences in the workplace are unconstitutional, unmoral, and should not be necessary.

"Nineteenth Amendment (ratified 1920)." //American Government//. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 20 Oct. 2011.

"Fourteenth Amendment (ratified 1868)." //American Government//. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 20 Oct. 2011.

“Title IX Women’s Right Act in 1972.” Givi Garcia, 2011. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. ||