Two in five Singaporeans believe that gender discrimination exists in the workplace today according to the survey conducted by NTUC’s U Women and Family (U WAF) Unit and The People’s Action Party (PAP) Women’s Wing.
According to the reports, the survey was conducted from Jan 20 to Feb 10 this year. of over 3,000 male and female Singaporeans found that 23 per cent of them believe that gender discrimination exists in the workplace today.
However, results showed that only two out of five women were willing to report their discrimination experience, as compared to three out of five men.
The main reasons cited for not reporting their discrimination experience:
- “Fear of losing their job” or “causing someone to lose theirs”.
- “The lack of a clear reporting framework was also cited as a reason”.
The Director Yeo Wan Ling revealed the survey findings on 3 March 2022 and said there are actually two needs.
- The first need is for our HR policies within companies to have a better, escalation pathway for people to be able to report this [workplace discrimination], and also to report this without fear of retaliation.
- The second thing is actually to better equip our employees to be able to recognise what workplace discrimination and what genuine grievances are; a way for them to articulate it in a way that HR policies would be able to action on.
Director Yeo Wan Ling also made clear that her intentions to raise awareness of avenues available to report workplace harassment and gender discrimination while protecting whistleblowers who report such incidents, according to the press release by NTUC.
NOT FACED BY ONLY WOMEN
Ms Yeo added that workplace discrimination is not an issue faced only by women, she said “I do believe that gender discrimination is an issue that isn’t just related to women only. Our survey did include both men and women to talk about this. So I hope that going forward that this will be something that is a whole-of-society effort, because it does take the whole society to recognise gender discrimination and harassment at the workplace“.
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