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Gender inequality in the Dutch and Spanish students' part-time workplace : a still unresolved socio-cultural matter

how do Dutch and Spanish students experience gender inequality in their part-time jobs?

Rechten: Alle rechten voorbehouden

Gender inequality in the Dutch and Spanish students' part-time workplace : a still unresolved socio-cultural matter

how do Dutch and Spanish students experience gender inequality in their part-time jobs?

Rechten: Alle rechten voorbehouden

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While the socio-cultural concept of gender inequality in the workplace has been an issue since time immemorial, it has received more and more attention in recent years. Gender inequality is considered to be an essentially contested concept in which biological and cultural differences form the underlying principle that represents its deep-entrenched roots. Because of the fact that biological and physical differences between men and women cannot be changed, the solution finds its way in non-inherited matters. With respect to analyse, compare and improve this socio-cultural difficulty in the Dutch and Spanish part-time student’s workplace, a clear view of the gender equality level in the general workplace was presented. According to the World Economic Forum and the European Institute for Gender Inequality, the most common gender inequalities females face in the workplace were in relation to remuneration differences and both vertical and horizontal segregation. Although the extent to which Dutch female and Spanish female employees experience gender inequality in the workplace does not show considerably high differences, research has proven that Spanish female workers experience more gender inequality than Dutch workers of the same sex, in virtually all fields of the workplace. As the concept of culture is closely connected to the gender inequality differences, in The Netherlands and Spain, both national cultures were analysed utilising cultural theories, in order to investigate the reason behind these types of gender inequalities. By means of comparing the Dutch and the Spanish culture, with the aid of the two cultural theories of Hofstede and Hampden-Turner, it became apparent that the Spanish culture was more likely to maintain gender inequality than the Dutch culture. The theories’ cultural dimensions that were related to the Spanish culture reflects a virtually conservative character, which means that traditions in the Spanish culture are preserved, problems are unsolved because stress to resolve them and innovation to improve them is avoided, rather than challenged; people cling to that what they already have, know and are. Through analysis of student opinions and experiences about the existence of gender inequality in their student part-time workplaces, it appears that students of the same nationality and gender experience similar gender inequalities in the workplace. As both Dutch and Spanish students felt related to the theories’ dimensions that pertain to their countries’ cultures, the theories proved to be a reliable tool to measure gender inequality in different cultures with. Finally, as a result of the establishment of both national and European legislations, the upward tendency concerning the inequalities women face in the workplace has been limited in order to respect the fundamental values of the European Union, although there is still a lot of room for improvement in order to receive what the Dutch and Spanish employees rightfully deserve; an equal workplace for all.

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OrganisatieDe Haagse Hogeschool
OpleidingMO Europese Studies / European Studies
AfdelingFaculteit Management & Organisatie
Jaar2015
TypeBachelor
TaalEngels

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