Gendered Experience in the Workplace

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This paper recounts the personal experience of a male employee of one of the El Pollo Loco fast food chain stores The author explains that he was chosen to be promoted to assistant manager at the store he worked at over his friend and female co-worker who was equally qualified for the position. The author also discusses the insight he gained from the experience concerning the ways women are discriminated against in the workplace.

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"Sexual discrimination is a reality in the workforce. Despite many recent and well- publicized advances of individual women in business, and some prominent examples of female leadership of once male-dominated corporate entities, in the everyday experience of most workers, common workplace relations remain 'gendered' in terms of leadership. Gender constructs that favor promoting males to positions of leadership still affect the perceptions of managers, and their employees. I know this from my own personal experience, even though I am male."

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