Sex Disertmznataon Against the American Working Woman

The concept of discrimination is inextricably linked to a particular ideology or set of values. Ideologies delineate desirable social conditions; discrimination refers to departures from ideological prescriptions. More specifically, discrimination may be defined as the withholding of rewards or facilities on the basis of allocative criteria inconsistent with a particular ideology. Discrimination refers to providing individuals with fewer rewards or facilities than are legitimately deserved; favoritism, to providing more rewards or facilities than are legitimately deserved. Of specific concern here is occupational sex discrimination. The discrepancy between ideology and reality with