The concept of gender in relation to the division of labor in the workplace, and in relation to issues of power and control is an unfortunate, groundless stereotype. Suzanne Tallichet notes that the gendered division of workplace labor is rooted in erroneous ideology of innate sex differences in traits and abilities, and operates through various control mechanisms. (Tallichet 1995: 698) These control mechanisms are primarily exercised by men over women and serve to exaggerate differences between the sexes, especially surrounding women's presumed incapability for doing male identified work.

Tallichet notes that most forms of workplace control take the form of harassment, sexual bribery, and gender based jokes and comments, and profanity, which passively but succinctly make gender differences a salient aspect of work relations. (Tallichet 1995: 698-699) Jan Grant and Paige Porter

Grant, Jan; Porter, Paige. 1994. "Women Managers: The Construction of Gender in the

Gender and Society. Vol. 12, 1: 40-60.

Kathleen Rospenda (1998: 41) notes that various models exist to explain sexual harassment such as the organizational model, the socio-cultural model, and the model of contra power sexual harassment. The organizational model suggests that the structural aspects of organizations promote power inequalities between individuals and set the stage for sexual harassment; while sociocultural models reflect a feminist perspective, conceptualizing sexual harassment as an outcome of patriarchal systems that enable men

In addition to gendered issues in the workplace surrounding the division of labor, power differentials, and sexual harassment, there also exists an ingrained structure of gendered inequalities. Perhaps the most common and widely accepted form of inequality in the workplace is the hiring and treatment of part-time workers. Boyd argues that part-time work is more than a strategy used by women; it also becomes a mechanism for continued gender inequality in that it leaves intact the organization of domestic labor, existing power structures and relations of male control and dominance. From a feminist

Pringle, Rosemary. 1993. "Rethinking Gender and Work." Gender and History. Vol. 5,

Roos, Patricia A. 1992. "Women in Engineering: Gender, Power and Workplace

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