This is why I found it interesting that in the academy award winning film From Here to Eternity, the males and females exhibited behavior that was completely contrary to Tannen’s findings. It seems as if for each of Tannen’s main points there is a counterexample in the film. Let’ take a closer look and compare the 2 stories on cross gender communication. For the first of Tannen’s point we look to how Tannen claims that talk is more important to women than it is to men in one on one situations. Tannen says in the actual essay, “In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities...Instead they focused on communication: ‘He doesn’t listen to me”.
As a result, women seek health care in much greater proportion than men. Men, on the other hand, traditionally shy away from the health-care system, and we are only now starting to understand why that is. Men tend to view partners and friends as primary health sources. When they do reach a physician, men tend to focus more on physical problems, and are less likely to discuss deeper emotional issues -- particularly if the physician is female. Perhaps most influential are perceptions around male masculinity.
Males are considered masculine because they are “rough and tough” and females are considered feminine because of history and women having to act like a “proper lady”. Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity? Yes I think our concepts of gender and sex contribute very much to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity. I think it has a lot to do with why we think some jobs are for women and some jobs are for men. For example the saying “women should be in the kitchen bare foot and pregnant”.
Just depends where in the world you live. In ancient India woman played a very important role of being superior to men. One must recognize the Hindu scripture guidelines to a woman’s role in the Hindu society in order to understand their role in Hinduism cultures. This vague generalization of a woman’s role in the religious spectrum leaves open interpretation for woman. For the way they interpret the guidelines conflict arises when men criticize women.
Unions have had to change and evolve to combat the decline in membership and the effectiveness of the union itself. Although the membership of women has increased, their activity within the union has been low. Perhaps this is because women are defined by their sex and how they are socialized as they grow from child to adult; women are seen as passive lacking leadership qualities and confidence. This may be especially true in male dominated trade unions. Although change has come about for women in their struggles in the union movement, it is clear that there is still much to be done.
In my second article titled, “Employment Patterns of Female Coaches in Men's Athletics: Tokenism and Marginalization as Reflections of Occupational Sex-Segregation,” Mary Jo Kane and Jane Marie Stangl examine how women have found it increasingly difficult to obtain jobs in coaching. Not only has it become a task for women to coach in women sports, but it has also become extremely difficult for women to coach in male dominated sports. Similar to the Rooney Rule, Title IX was implemented in order to give women more opportunity in the world of sport; however, the numbers of women in coaching has not risen much since. The authors provide typical logic which parallels Kanters view on tokens. Occupational sex segregation is an explanation one could use to clarify the low numbers of women in coaching positions.
Unfortunately the recent report tells us that only by 2095 we can achieve the full gender equality on the workplace. However, of course, we could try and shorten that time. It is obviously important to have not only males in the business world, because this way we miss out on many opportunities that women could bring to the world, due to the different perception of values. When for example men are driven by mostly material success, women tend to build up relationships and friendly environment on the workplace. However, sometimes emotions and nurturing can affect the business in a negative manner.
They have found that there is increasing family diversity and that women are not equally exploited in all types of family e.g. matrifocal or lesbian families. Nicholson (1997) believes women are often better off outside the traditional idea of family and Calhoun (1997) explains women cannot be exploited by men in lesbian families. This perspective is not easy to criticize because it recognizes differences in family life however it can be criticized for losing sight of continuing inequalities between men and women within the family. Radical feminists believe that the family plays a major role in maintaining the oppression of women in a male-dominated society.
Even though Marston died almost 70 years ago, much of what he saw happening with women is still going on today. American society looks at femininity as a weakness, and because of this many women try to deny their feminine tendencies. Some feminists are pushing for parents to treat girls exactly the same as they do boys, with the goal of eradicating femininity. Not only is this impossible, it would be detrimental to our society. Femininity, which is both a product of biology and a social construct, should be valued more by American society.
This goes on throughout his paper. Shortly after this first example, in an inartistic appeal he refers to an article written by a feminist that discusses similarities of genetics between men and women. It is important that he finds a feminist stating this to be the most credible source. In his mind, statements he can use to support his argument made by feminists are more credible than ones made by geneticists when discussing genetics because he sees feminists as his opponents. More than looking for the cause of rape, he feels insulted by feminists.