Psycho-social approaches of the gender discrimination and sex segregation in the workplace

Abstract

Discrimination is a real phenomenon in Romania, which takes different forms and which affects different social groups. This paper is a synthesis of the theories explaining discrimination and it includes presentations of the theory of real conflicts, theory of the social identity, theory of equity, theory of the relative privation and theory of the behavioural interaction. The article also discusses sex or age segregation at the workplace and the factors that may influence these phenomena. The phenomenon of segregation is analysed via gender equality, revealing the reasons underlying the discriminatory acts/attitudes of employers towards women.