Renzetti and Curran, in their book titled "Women, Men and Society" (1998), describe the various ways in which women are discriminated against in the workplace. We shall provide a summary of these.

Forms of gender inequalities in the labour market are:

• Occupational Sex Segregation: Men and women tend to be concentrated in different types of jobs in the labour market, with men in occupations considered as ‘masculine' and women in those considered as ‘feminine'. This leads to limited employment opportunities for both sexes, but women tend to be more negatively affected as the jobs associated with women usually carry less prestige and rewards and women are kept locked into these jobs.
• Glass Ceiling: Renzetti and Curran define glass ceiling as "the invisible barriers that limit workers' - typically women workers' and racial and ethnic minority workers' - upward occupational mobility" (1998, p.204).
• The Male/Female Earnings Gap: Research has shown that even though there has been an increase in the wage of women, there is still a gap between the earnings of men and women. Part of the explanation for this gap is that women, due to occupational sex segregation and glass ceiling, are more likely to be in jobs where they earn less.