Behavioral Research on the Relationship Between Female Employee’s Workplace Discrimination and Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract

Gender equality as an important social norm should be highly valued and strictly obeyed by the corporation. Nowadays, female employees are playing more and more important roles in the workplace environment. While more and more women are becoming the leaders of teams, members of committees, and CEOs, which show the infinite potential of female power, there are discrimination still exists based on gender. When female employees are seeking opportunities to get hired and promoted, the challenge they face is immeasurable. During the interview, female applicants are more frequently asked questions related to their marital and reproductive status. However, this is a type of gender bias due to women’s reproductive roles. Moreover, there is much gender discrimination in the workplace, and it is suppressing female employees. Thus, the corporation needs to set a good example in society as the pioneer in creating a gender-friendly environment. The corporation should implement corporate social responsibility by providing humanistic care and useful sessions to try its best to eliminate gender inequality. The structure of this paper is to point out the challenge of female employees first, conduct in-depth research into the problems of gender discrimination, analyze why the problems exist, and finally provide the solution according to each problem.