Gender Issues: The Effects of Differences in Interaction Styles between Genders and Roles on Workplace Communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Sharifah Nadhira Syed Iskandar ◽  
Aisyah Munirah A. Rahim ◽  
Aina Nor Syakila Mohd Yussoff ◽  
Fatin Hanini Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Workplace Communication ◽  
Interaction Styles ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Working World

Issues related to gender in the workplace are quite a common and debatable issue in Malaysia considering that male employees dominate the working world in general. Gender issues at the workplace has become a problem in the workforce which in return brings negative impacts on the organisations involved  as well as the victims themselves without regarding the gender. Given this situation, this study aims to explore the differences in the interaction styles between gender and gender roles in which we would look into how they affect the workplace communication. In addition, workplace has been a war field for female against gender issues.  The questionnaires were distributed to the respondents with a working experience regardless of their employment status. A total of 33 questionnaires were completed by the respondents. This quantitative study used descriptive analysis approach in analysing the frequency which was presented in percentage. According to the results obtained it was revealed that most of our respondents agreed with our statements which aligned with our previous researches. Future researches should be conducted in order for these aspects in the issues to be included and discussed holistically.

scholarly journals It’s A Private Matter. Space And Gender Issues In Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
Dana Percec
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Visual Illustration ◽  
English Society ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Private Matter

Abstract The paper investigates the preoccupations of the 16th and 17th-century English society for the emerging phenomenon and concept of privacy, reflected, among others, in the new ways in which space is employed in defining hierarchies and gender roles. The paper deals with elements of cultural history related to the use and meaning of privacy, private life and private space in a Shakespearean play which is significant for the visual illustration of the concept – Cymbeline, more specifically, the bed-trick scene.

scholarly journals The relationship between marital quality, attitudes towards gender roles and life satisfaction among the married individuals

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semanur Kodan Çetinkaya ◽  
Başaran Gençdoğan
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Family Intervention ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Married Individuals ◽  
And Gender

Abstract: Society imposes different roles on women and men in the family and the society, concerning their gender. “Gender Role Concept” is very important in terms of the fact that it is related all parts of life of individuals, behaviors, perceptions and attitudes of men and women (Çelik, 2008). In this perspective, gender roles, which affect individuals’ lives, cannot be isolated from the factors which affect marriage. In this context, the reflections of gender roles on marriage and also the effects of marriage, which is one of most important decisions of individuals, on quality of life were explored. For this purpose, the relationships between these three concepts were discussed. This research was a study of the relational model. The universe of this study included married individuals living in the province of Bayburt and Erzurum, and 639 individuals were participated to the research which was voluntary basis. The data were collected by using the “Marital Life Scale”, “Gender Roles Attitudes Scale” and “Life Satisfaction Scale”. These analyses were made on the data obtained from the study; t-test for independent groups, regression and correlation. According to study a positive and significant relationship was found between the marital quality, gender roles and the life satisfaction. There was found a significant differentiation; between the quality of the marriage and having children or family intervention; between the attitudes towards gender roles and gender, spouse’s employment status or having children; between the life satisfaction and gender or spouse’s employment status. La relación entre calidad marital, actitudes hacia los roles de género y satisfacción de vida entre personas casadas Resumen: La sociedad impone diferentes roles sociales a las mujeres y hombres en el seno familiar respecto a su género. El concepto de “roles de género” es muy importante dado que se relaciona con todas las partes de la vida, conductas, percepciones y actitudes de hombres y mujeres . En esta perspectiva, los roles de género, los cuales afectan a la vida de las personas, no pueden ser aislados de los factores que afectan el matrimonio. En este contexto, este artículo explora la reflexión sobre los roles de género en el matrimonio, como una de las decisiones más importantes de la persona, y también los efectos del matrimonio sobre la calidad de vida. Para este objetivo, las relaciones entre estos tres conceptos fueron discutidos. y se presenta un modelo relacional. En este estudio participaron voluntariamente 639 individuos casados que vivían en la provincial de Bayburt y Erzurum. Los datos fueron recogidos a través de la escala de vida marital, la escala de actitudes hacia los roles de género, y la escala de satisfacción con la vida. Para el análisis de los datos se realizaron pruebas t para grupos independientes, análisis de regresión y correlaciones. Los resultados indicaron una relación significativa y positiva entre la calidad marital, los roles de género y la satisfacción con la vida. Una diferencia significativa fue encontrada entre la calidad marital de acuerdo al criterio tener hijos y la intervención familiar, las actitudes hacia los roles de género basado en el género, el estatus del trabajo del cónyuge, tener hijos y la satisfacción con la vida basado en el género y el estatus laboral del cónyuge.

scholarly journals Social norms of sexual initiation among adolescents and gender relations

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Luiza Vilela Borges ◽  
Eunice Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Sexual Initiation ◽  
Sexual Relation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Moment

This study aimed to identify standards and expectations regarding sexual initiation of 14 to 18 year-old adolescents in Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, using data from four focal groups conducted in 2006. Results revealed that gender issues are clearly present in participants' reports and showed to be essential in their choices about the moment, partners and contraceptive practices in the first sexual relation. Adolescents are subordinated to gender roles, traditionally attributed to male and female genders, i.e. the notion that sex is an uncontrolled instinct for boys, and intrinsically and closely associated to love and desire for girls. Adolescents also play a preponderant role in the perpetuation of these values within the group they live in.

Bunyan and Gender

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

John Bunyan’s writings have traditionally invited critical readings focusing on gender issues. With the scholarly recovery of the writings of radical sectarian women during the 1650s and 1660s and renewed study of libertine sexuality in the Restoration, our understanding of Bunyan’s representation of gender hierarchy and gender roles in his writings has become more complex. On the one hand, as a minister, he insisted on conformity to a biblically based gender hierarchy, and in works like The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680) he condemned the fashionable display of sexuality. On the other hand, Bunyan conceptualized the nature of the human relationship with God as requiring men to perform feminine roles and women to take on masculine traits.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Correlation between Gender Traits and the Perception of Effective Leadership

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Phillip Neely Jr ◽  
Ray Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Women Managers ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Train Of Thought ◽  
Gender Traits ◽  
Schein Descriptive Index ◽  
Gender Specific

As the percentage of women managers has risen in the workforce, so have questions of whether women could effectively manage corporations. This curiosity has yielded studies designed to analyze the correlation between gender and management. Additionally, the research has led to contrary views from one research project to another. In their article, Leadership, Education and Gender Roles: Think manager, Think '?'., Coder and Spiller (2013) reviewed three varying trains of thought from the 1970s through the 1990s to examine how various shortcomings in methodology might impact comprehension and remediation of gender issues and management. The article reviews research that appears to substantiate that when people think manager, they think male. This is followed by data, which suggests that when people think research, we think female and finally research endorsing the train of thought that when people think manager, there is no gender specific thought. Two Indexes developed in the 1970s greatly impacted gender and its correlation to management traits. These were the Schein Descriptive Index (SDI) and the BEM Sex Role Index (BSRI). According Coder and Spiller (20113) results of the Schein Descriptive Index, a test developed by Virginia Schein, indicated the characteristics of women managers more closely resembled males than females.

scholarly journals A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Women and Gender Roles in John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga and Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Abdulfattah Omar ◽  
Musa Ahmed Musa Alhassan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Contextual Elements ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Narrative Techniques

This study is concerned with investigating the treatment of women and gender roles in Glasworthy’s Forsyte Saga and Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy from a sociopragmatic perspective. The texts studied for this paper have not been evaluated to socio-pragmatic analysis that reflects the little application of this approach to literary works. As thus, the goal of this paper is to advance sociopragmatic analysis to these novels—there is salience from the style, narrative techniques, and language utilized by both writers in their books, which indeed points to pragmatic undercurrents that must be explored. The results indicate that social and political aspects are key elements for understanding women and gender issues in the selected texts. The integration of these contextual elements revealed how the two authors manipulated literary discourse to reflect on the power relations and struggles between men and women of their age. It can be claimed that sociopragmatic approaches provide opportunities for understanding the hidden layers within the selected texts in terms of social practices and interactions among characters. It is finally suggested that sociopragmatic approaches should be integrated into literary studies for a better and deeper understanding of literary discourse in general and crosscultural issues in particular.

scholarly journals Media Discourse And Gender: Issues Of Reconstruction Of Gender Ideologies In Pakistani Television Advertisements

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Sarwet Rasool
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Television Advertisements ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Beauty Products

Traditionally Pakistani society exhibits stereotypical patriarchal gender ideologies in all spheres of life. Pakistani media also operates under the same patriarchal framework of received definitions of gender. When it comes to Pakistani television advertisements, to ensure social acceptability, typically they represent men and women in their perceived gender roles. However, recently a wave of change can be noticed in these advertisements as many advertisements challenge and/ or reconstruct gender ideologies implicitly or explicitly. In the current research advertisements selected from diverse domains including edibles, cell phones and services, beauty products and toiletries denote a change across gender stereo-typicality. The paper investigates whether, how far and in what ways gender roles and ideologies are challenged and reconstructed; and what thematic, linguistic and extra linguistic strategies are used in Pakistani television advertisements. It is expected that the paper will provide insights into the processes of reconstruction of gender ideologies in Pakistan.

scholarly journals Analisa Tingkat Androgenitas pada Mahasiswa

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-137
Author(s):  
Natalia Regina Devi Setyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
University Students ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Average Group ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Descriptive Method

This research aimed to measure the level of androgyny of Sanata Dharma University students. The subjects were 100 students of Sanata Dharma University consisted of men and women of age 18 to 22 years old participating the research. There search uses quantitative approach parallel with descriptive method. The only variable is androgyny, which composed of masculinity and femininity equally in one individual. The instrument to measure is Bem Sex Role Inventory which adopted to Indonesian language. The test was taken to measure the androgyny by descriptive analysis and gender roles division based on group median scores of masculine and feminine scale. The analysis has resulted in greater masculine mean empirical value than mean theoretical value {87,28 >73,5} which exposing higher average of the group than its average theoretical value, therefore means the subjects has the tendency of high masculinity. In addition, the analysis has resulted in larger feminine mean empirical value than its average theoretical value, consequently means the research subject has the tendency of high femininity {88,43 >70} which featuring higher average group value than its average theoretical, which means widely the research subject has the tendency of high femininity. All things considered, the gender roles division from 100 students have explained that 70% of them have androgyny gender roles, while other 30% have masculinity, femininity and or undifferentiated. Finally, the students of Sanata Dharma University aged of 18 to 22 years old mostly have gender roles of androgyny

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