B. Devaluation of women's work Devaluation of women's work is embedded in major world religions. Living in a society which devalues women's work makes the practice seem natural. Employers and employees bring sex into the workplace by acting on sex stereotype assumptions and by making sex salient when it is irrelevant. Employers gender when they create new jobs, set pay, organize how work is done and create working conditions. Machinery designed for large men.
Chairs are large and desks are high.
When workplaces are sex segregated, race plays a more important role than gender in determining pay and experiences.