1. What is the article about?
This article is talking about a lot of things such as how because of their gender a person can be treated differently in the workplace or be denied future opportunities and fewer benefits. this article also talked about how getting exposed to sexual harassment can affect a woman’s mental state increasing their chance of suicide. they also wrote about how a person subjected to pregnancy discrimination can have a negative affect on the baby and the mother’s physical or mental health.
2. Who does it involve?
The article involves people in the general workspace working and aspiring for new opportunities. Such as people like this young female doctor they wrote about in this article who felt like she isn’t being seen or is invisible because her male coworkers didn’t acknowledge her presence in a room even when she acknowledged them. Then she went to the department chair they also didn’t seem to care that she felt invisible and told her she was being too sensitive.
3. Why did you choose this article?
I choose this article because I wanted to find out about how gender equality is affecting the workplace so that when I get a job I can accurately identify it at that point in time. I also chose it because I liked how it went more indef into how you can stop gender discrimination with steps to take, unlike another site I looked at.
4. How does this news article relate to the story we are reading- The Friday Everything Changed?
This news article is also talking about how women are being perceived as not equal to men in the workplace and should get future opportunities in just like in the story where the boy doesn’t think that the girls are as strong as them and shouldn’t be allowed to bring the bucket to the pump. Another way this news article can relate to the story is how the woman in both story goes to ask for help from there superior and gets different results because one is a woman and the other is a man