The Role of Anger and Gender in the Workplace Dinesha Deonarine Hunter College, The City University of New York Abstract In western cultures, it has been conveyed that women tend to be more emotional than men. Due to the stereotype, it has caused a strain on women in the work environment where women as seen to be too emotional if anger or any other emotion is displayed in the work environment. Our aim was to examine reactions of anger and gender shown in professional environments based on status and competence ratings. Our hypothesis was that professional women who express anger in the workplace are significantly accorded lower status and are seen as less competent than professional men who express anger. We showed participants 4 videos, sequentially in balanced order and gave a questionnaire for them to complete.
Some are complex and subtle, having to do with how women are brought up to view themselves and to behave. Others reflect the dynamics of a male-dominated workplace. Following are some of the most common reasons sexual harassment is not reported. Many fire chiefs find it difficult to learn of harassment going on in their department. Harassment, after all, rarely goes on in front of those who would take steps to stop it.
Women have always been thought of as the weaker sex and Sociologists such as Heidensohn argue that men see the need to protect women. Police are more likely to caution a woman for shop lifting than they are a man. Flood-Page et al found that one in eleven female offenders had been cautioned and prosecuted in comparison to one in seven males. Women are also less likely to be prosecuted for an offence and found guilty of offences by juries. This is because women (especially when they have children) are seen first and foremost in the expressive role (mothering and caring).
Believing sexism will go away without putting major changes in place, is not a reality. Sexism blatantly exists in the work place. Obvious (and most common) examples of this would be: women are often paid less than their male counterparts for the same position, men often receive rapid job promotions in comparison to women and women are usually the targets of gender based harassment. Women frequently struggle with the lack of pay they receive, in comparison to their male counterparts. A woman working in the same job as a man will usually earn less, despite the fact that she may have the same or better training, education, and skills required for the job ("Study Shows Female Managers in Britain Earn Less than Men, and Equality Could Be 57 Years Away."
Lastly at work they are controlled by their bosses, and if their bosses are men this could lead to sexual/ verbal harassment and decrease their chance of promotion opportunities. These explanation may explain the low crime rate from women to some extent however through recent years the rate of women’s crime has increased which may show the social control over women is breaking down. Denscombes research shows that young women are taking on the role of delinquency due to becoming more confident which outlines that there may be a change throughout society if this continues to rise. Lombroso and Ferrero alleged that the diverse crimes committed by men and women are a result of their physical difference. This methodology has been used by different writers
Discrimination is highly discouraged in the workplace and perpetrators of such inhuman acts are subject to criminal offences. In several occasions, unfairness involving age and sex have led to people quitting their jobs as well as engaging in unlawful acts. Furthermore, diverse cases of discrimination have been observed in several places of work. First and foremost is the prevalence of sex discrimination against women. Since men are the most principal stature in the current society, they are therefore entitled to additional jobs, contrary to their female counterparts.
Military organizations in general are often viewed as a “man’s job” by many because of the stereotypic male characteristics of combat positions such as aggression, courage, and strength. When women began being integrated into roles that were male-dominate many women experienced being treated differently because they were female. Women reported being treated differently in terms of being put in positions where they felt that they were at a disadvantage within the training and employment environment. The women also reported that their male counterparts would have in appropriate conversations with sexual content while in the presence of women co-workers. Although women reported these things in this study, it was also found that
It also shows that in the United States that the jealousy rates are higher overall. Buunk explains that men would be more affect from a sexual relationship because it damages their chances of producing offspring. Men have the instinct in providing his genes to the future generation, and if the woman has a sexual relation with another man, the issue of who the father is becomes apparent. A woman does not have to worry about the baby being hers, because she is the reproducer, but the man has to
Employers who engaged in unfair hiring practices attempted to justify making discriminatory hiring decisions for several reasons. Some employers believed women lacked the skills and qualifications necessary to perform nontraditional and higher-paid positions simply because of gender. Other employers who hired or promoted women into supervisory or management positions prevented those women from attaining higher-level roles, which is referred to as the "glass ceiling." The glass ceiling is a metaphor used to describe a barrier where the targeted group--in this case, women--can see the higher rungs on a career ladder but are prevented from attaining more responsible and influential positions due to discrimination based on sex and business decisions that convey the message that men are more suited to leadership roles. This is evidenced by a study in 2003 conducted by University of California-Hayward professor Dr. Richard Drogin who discovered "women make up 72 percent of Wal-Mart's total workforce, but only 33 percent of its managers."
However, women are taking on more and more leadership roles; society is being forced to reexamine the assumption of men being the only effective leaders. Research on gender differences in leadership has been conflicting. Some states that women have different leadership style of leadership than men. Some states there are no major differences in the leadership behavior. (Boundless) A reoccurring theme has been the difference among men and women in leadership is communication and the relationship with followers.