Question

A firm promotes men to higher positions than women despite women performing better at the workplace. This is because the company believes that women need to balance tasks at home and work, which makes it difficult for them to take up positions of increased responsibility. This is an example of ________.
a. reverse discrimination
b. affirmative action
c. the self-fulfilling prophecy
d. sex discrimination

Answer 1

Answer:

d. sex discrimination

Explanation:

Sex discrimination is the type of discrimination when someone treats unfavorably or badly because they are from the different sex; whether if it is men to women or women to men. In this case we find that the firm only promotes men to higher positions and not women, because even though they may excel better in the workplace, the firm believes that women should focus more in the tasks from their home and find the balance between work and home. This type of thinking is very sexist because they are basically stating that the tasks from home should be handle by women and not men.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is letter "D": sex discrimination.

Explanation:

Sex discrimination occurs in the face of any distinction between men and women who assume that one of the two is better than the other. There is a range of features conceived by stereotyping that could lead a person to provide benefits to a male, such as "women are weak" or to females, such as men are not sensitive enough to work nursing babies.  

Sex discrimination is prohibited in any form whatsoever. In the U.S., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is in charge of reviewing and enforcing laws produced for any type of discrimination at work because of judging people based on their race, color, religion, age, disability, nationality, sexual preference or sex.