The Intelligent Organization; Gifford Pinchot; 1994 Berrett-Koehler

Discrimination is a hot topic these days. Organizations and companies are all talking the language of diversity in the workforce. Nowadays many businesses realise that a diverse workforce is a better workforce. By extending equal opportunity and providing fair treatment to employess, Companies enhance business results while positively impacting the community. In an environment that is growing more and more globally oriented, upper management would do well to harness the diverse perspectives of the working population. Today more than ever, innovation is key to thriving, if not surviving. Innovation can only originate in environments where multiple perspectives are valued and considered. Understanding the differences in cultures, and the beliefs associated with these, will be integral to harnessing the creative potential found by having access to multiple perspectives. It serves to move us out of our "box" and see things in ways

not based on the silent assumptions we all carry.

However, the statistics show that follows through up the executive ladder is lacking. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 40 years after the civil rights movement, African Americans still only hold 8.2 percent of executive slots and Hispanics hold just 5 percent of top positions. Women comprise just 12.5 percent of corporate officers and represent just 4.1 percent of all top earners. And for minority women, the situation is worse: the percentage of women of color in senior jobs was only 1.3 percent as reported by Catalyst Research. Women still face the challenge of the "wage gap", earning 76 cents for every dollar a white man earns. African American women earned 65 cents and Latinas, 55 cents. These are sad figures and the worst is that these figures more or less reflect the situation in the most of the countries all over the world.

I do believe in differences and inequality between women and men, which occur first of all due to physiological nature of the two. Definitely, there are some jobs that simply physically cannot be performed by a woman like heavy weights and vice versa there are jobs that are better done by women rather than by men. At the same time I also strongly disagree with discrimination on the workforce as all employees besides their age, race, sex, etc should absolutely have equal job opportunities. Different doesn’t necessarily mean better or worse… people are just different.

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