Organizational Listening for Strategic Communication

13Organizational Listening and Empowered Women in the WorkplaceA Cross-Cultural Comparison between the United States and South Korea

Jo-Yun Queenie Li, Yeunjae Lee, and Enzhu Dong

DOI: 10.4324/9781003273851-17

Introduction

Despite the ongoing advocacy to increase diversity and foster inclusive work environments and corporate cultures around the world, discrimination in the workplace remains pervasive, such as gender-related mistreatment. In the United States, four out of ten working women have encountered discrimination at work due to their gender, ranging from making less money than male colleagues for doing the same work to being passed over for a promotion (Parker & Funk, 2017). In addition to establishing appropriate systems and policies, ...