Abstract
The business problem that we are going to discuss concerns the differences in treatment regarding gender. Actually, in the work environment, women and men are considered, paid and hired differently. This has always been the case and even if we can see improvements, there are still big gaps in salaries, employments and positions. But the main and more important gap existing is to be found in the mentality of people. People, and moreover men still can't understand that a woman can be as effective and efficient as a man. These mentalities come from the fact that women have always been considered as the ‘second sex' and not able enough to work. They were supposed to grow up their children, be good housewives and serve their husbands who were the only ones to work for the household. But during the Second World War, women were obliged to work to build weapons, as men had gone to war. This is the age when women entered the work market, because at the end of the war, they kept their place there, and kept working, even if at this period, it was not frequent. Step by step, they finally took an important place in the work environment which brings men to get worried and to discriminate them. 50 years later, mentalities have evaluated but even there have been important evolutions, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the actual gap that there is between men and women at work, considering the changes and the evolution of the last 50 years. There is now a notion of parity that that has been created to set up some rules and quotas for women to be respected by companies, governments, and so on. But, even with these regulations, the situation for women is not all that better. We will try to understand why there is still such important gender discrimination, how it is observable and how women feel about being considered as a minority.
