The Cultural Dissonance between Men and Women Cultural dissonance is defined as an uncomfortable sense of discord, disharmony, confusion, or conflict experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment (Wikipedia, 2014). Cultural dissonance is relevant to the discrimination of women in the workforce, because men are not use to change. Men are uncomfortable with working with women in the same work field. Some men think that women should just sit at home and be house wives and raise children. Equality between the sexes has been a long and bumpy road. There have been a lot changes over the past years to draw the line between the two sexes. These changes have had women thinking that discrimination against them was in the …show more content…
In July 1934, the National Recovery Administration ordered that, in those companies that were still not codified, female perform the same work as men should receive the same pay rate (ElisBurg, 1978, p. 196). Women were working just has hard as men, and employers were trying to pay women less. In the year 1940, around one-fourth of the workforce had become females. Women had started filling production jobs like steel, machine tools, munitions, aircraft production and shipbuilding (ElisBurg, 1978, p. …show more content…
49). This process also had a vetoed states bill and continued advocacy (Yamada, 2015, p. 49). The legislature acted a limited workplace bullying provision as an amendment to the state’s discrimination law (Yamada, 2015, p. 52). In California an employer that have 50 or more employees must have at least two hours of classroom or any other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment (Yamada, 2015, p. 52). California amendment does not create an independent legal claim for abusive conduct, but raises the possibility of bullying related to wrongful discharge claims (Yamada, 2015, p.