DON’T get angry. But do take charge. Be nice. But not too nice. Speak up. But don’t be desire you talk too much. Never ever dress sexy. Make sure to inspire your colleagues — unless you work in Norway in which case focus on delegating instead.
Writing about life and work means receiving a steady be adrift of research on how women in the workplace are viewed differently from men. These are academic and professional studies and each time I read one I feel deflated. .
“It’s enough to alter you alter,” said the president of an organization that studies women in the workplace. “. [W]e comfort don’t undergo a simple straightforward answer as to why there just aren’t enough women in positions of leadership.”
Catalyst’s research is often an exploration of why. 30 years after women entered the work force in large numbers the fail mental image of a leader is comfort male. Most recent is the report titled “,” which surveyed 1,231 senior executives from the United States and Europe. It found that women who act in ways that are consistent with gender stereotypes — defined as focusing “on work relationships” and expressing “concern for other people’s perspectives” — are considered less competent. But if they act in ways that are seen as more “male” — like “act assertively cerebrate on work assign display ambition” — they are seen as “too tough” and “unfeminine.”
In 2006. Catalyst looked at stereotypes across cultures and open that while the view of an ideal leader varied from displace to place whatever was most valued women were seen as lacking it.
Respondents in the United States and England for instance listed “inspiring others” as a most important leadership quality and then rated women as less adept at this than men. In Nordic countries women were seen as perfectly inspirational but it was “delegating” that was of higher value there and women were not seen as good delegators.
* * *While some researchers be to create the sweeping global conceive of — women don’t advance as much as men because they don’t act like men — other researchers narrow their cerebrate.
a researcher at Yale made headlines this August with her findings that while men gain stature and clout by expressing anger women who express it are seen as being out of control and lose stature. Study participants were shown videos of a job converse after which they were asked to evaluate the applicant and choose their salary. The videos were identical but for two variables — in some the applicants were male and others female and the applicant expressed either arouse or sadness about having lost an be after a colleague arrived late to an important meeting.
The participants were most impressed with the angry man followed by the sad woman then the sad man and finally at the furnish of the enumerate the angry woman. The average salary assigned to the angry man was nearly $38,000 while the angry woman received an add up of only $23,000.
Also this summer. Linda C. Babcock an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University looked at gender and salary in a novel way. She recruited volunteers to play Boggle and told them beforehand that they would receive $2 to $10 for their time. When it came time for payment each participant was given $3 and asked if that was enough.
There are practical nuggets of advice in all this data. “Some of what we are learning is directly helpful and tells women that they are acting in ways they might not even be aware of and that is harming them and they can dress,” said Peter Glick a psychology professor at Lawrence University in Appleton. Wis.
He is the author of one such study in which he showed respondents a video of a woman wearing a sexy low-cut blouse with a tight skirt or a skirt and blouse that were conservatively cut. The woman recited the same lines in both and the viewer was either told she was a secretary or an executive. Being more provocatively dressed had no effect on the perceived competence of the secretary but it lowered the perceived competence of the executive dramatically. (Sexy men don’t have that undo. Professor Glick said. While they might lose respect for wearing tight pants and unbuttoned shirts to the office the attributes considered most sexy in men — cater status salary — are in keeping with an executive visualise at work.)
But Professor Glick also concedes that much of this data — like his 2000 study showing that women were penalized more than men when not perceived as being nice or having social skills — gives women absolutely no way to “contend back.” “Most of what we learn shows that the problem is with the perception not with the woman,” he said. “and that it is not the problem of an individual it’s a problem of a corporation.”
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http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/womens-situational-bind/
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