Workplace Discrimination against Working Women in Jordan

Excimirey A. Al-Manasrah

International Journal of Business and Management, 2021, vol. 15, issue 6, 163

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the sources related to work place discrimination against working women in Jordan. The studied discrimination sources are- age discrimination, racial discrimination, religious discrimination, gender discrimination, women social status discrimination and sexual harassment. Data were collected via questionnaires from 154 working women in academic and managerial positions at Al-Balqa Applied University in Jordan. Crosstabs were used to describe sample characteristics related to discrimination and Chi square test was used to test the hypotheses. Crosstabs tabulations results found that educated and married women who are moving to a higher age category feel more discriminated at workplace. Chi Square findings indicated that Jordanian working women exposed to different sources of discrimination except religious discrimination at workplace.

Date: 2021
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