Kobiety na rynku pracy. W kierunku równego traktowania
Women in the Labour Market. Towards Equal Treatment

Summary/Abstract: Although women,s professional activity has been a fact for many years, we still observe many acts of discrimination. A common form of inequality is paying men and women different wages for the same work. Such practices seem to spring from the belief that - generally speaking - women are inferior workers. To what extent this conviction is unjustified we observe when viewing specific data on the effectivity of individual workers. I support my theoretical argument by an analysis of a sales effectivity report, conducted in an automotive industry firm with the gender criterion in mind. The obtained results juxtaposed with generally accessible reports on salary levels, demonstrate that women workers are just as good as men, and that gender does not determine work quality. My analysis might even lead to the conclusion that women as a sex are more effective, but the sample size does not allow such a thesis (notice, however, that my research concerns the automotive branch, considered a typically male industry). The image of the woman worker is changing before our very eyes, but the process is not easy and certainly prolonged. On the one hand, women are increasingly known as dynamic, ambitious, highly qualified - a status which (see the report results) can no longer be denied. On the other, a way of thinking in terms of "inferior woman worker" is unusually deeply rooted in many firms. A comparison of these two extremes, reinforced by solid analysis and different case descriptions, might provide a viable method of accelerating the advent of real equality of the sexes.

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