The Discrimination of Women in the Employment Process and at the Work Place
90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
87.7%
5.2%
Full-time employee
4.8%
Part-time employee
1.2%
Manager %
Owner
1.2% Manager and owner
9.1.5 Reason for unemployment 50% of unemployed women who are looking for a job with no success think that the reason they did not obtain the job is that relatives and/or friends of the employer got the job. Twenty-five percent of unemployed women believe that they are not qualified enough and 12.5% think that their age is the reason. In 8.3% cases employer looked exclusively for a man and in 4.2% of cases respondents are not employed because of some other reasons but they have a job in a future. 9.1.6 Reasons formerly employed women are no longer employed 58.1% of those respondents who worked before were fired, while 41.9% of them quit. 9.1.7 Reasons for dismissal Approximately 61.0% of respondents who were fired stated that this action resulted from a firm going bankrupt. On the other hand, 14.8% of the sample believe the reason is that the employer found a more adequate person for the job. Complaining about her small salary was the reason for 5.6% of the women, and the same percentage claim personal reasons. Interestingly, 3.7% of women were fired because they complained about men’s attitude. Another interesting thing is that 5.6% of respondents do not know why they were dismissed. Others were fired because of their age, or because they became pregnant (3.8%). 9.1.8 Reasons for quitting 30.8% women quit because of family reasons, 23.1% because they became pregnant, and 17.9% because of the small salary. Almost 13% of the sample did not feel comfortable as woman in the workplace. Five percent found a better job, the same percentage think that their employer was not satisfied with their work, and the same percentage retired. So, over half of the respondents stopped working in order to take care of their children or other family members. 9.1.9 Job replacement 34.4% of unemployed women who worked before were replaced by another woman. In 31.2% cases nobody replaced them, in same number of cases they do not know who replaced them (if anyone), and in 3.2% cases their replacement was a man. Graph 6: Replacement at previous job 34.4%
40
31.2%
31.2%
30 20 10
3.2%
0 Man
Woman
Nobody
I do not know
Cross tables: 21