Title and background TITLE: Gender stereotypes and Job Performance BACKGROUND: 40 years ago, women had management related jobs that were insignificant in numbers (Catalyst, 2007; Svanstro¨m, 2003). This began to change 10 years back when female proportion in management began to increase. However, the inflow of women in jobs ofEurope stands during the 21st century (Franco, 2007) and men prevail the top corporate positions in the field (Catalyst, 2007; Fristedt et al., 2010). In order to acquire upper
Gender is not merely about biological labeling of man and female in society. Gender is more about distinction of roles, functions and responsibilities between men and women, it is totally different with sex. Based on (Scarpitti and Andersen, 1992:275) Sex refers to one’s biological identity of male or female, while gender socially learned behaviours and expectations associated with member of each sex. Normally, human are born to be male or female but learn to become masculine or feminine. Social
STEREOTYPES A stereotype is a thinking pattern which can be formed about certain types of individual or specific ways of doing things. These thoughts and beliefs may be or may not be accurately reflecting reality. Stereotypes are the biases that may create social inequality. Stereotypes are cognitive processing about how members of a group are equal to or similar to each other and different from members of other groups. Stereotypes are the beliefs about the social groups in terms of the traits
Gender as a social construction Gender is never as good descriptor of an person, but a person is always part of a gender group. By acting out gender we reinforce the idea that there are only two mutually exclusive categories of gender. The idea that men and women are different is what makes men and women act differently. 4. Gender characteristics Sex is considered to be a born status, while gender is an achieved status. Gender characteristics refers to societies expectations
A stereotype is a trait, characteristics, motion, even belief that one has or believes about a person of a given demographic group which is then widespread to the whole group. According to Thomas CW (2014). Individuals stereotype one another for any number of reasons including ignorance, bias, prejudice, etc. However, many people stereotype because the world in which we live is so large and complex that it is difficult to comprehend. Therefore, stereotyping provides a means to group and attempt to
From birth we are assigned a gender and we are socialized to conform to certain gender roles based on the assigned sex. These gender roles are based on standards or norms, created by society. In certain countries like the U.S. masculine roles are usually thought to be closely associated with strength, dominance and aggression while feminine genders are usually associated with nurturing, passiveness and subordination. However it is a lot more complicated than that. Some scientists claim that certain
Gender Inequality Gender inequality is a characteristic of social structure according to which different social groups (in this case men and women) have certain differences resulting in unequal opportunities. Gender inequality is associated with social construction of masculinity and femininity as oppositional categories with unequal social value (Ferree, 1999). One of the main problems in gender theory is the problem of dominance. Together with race and class gender is a hierarchical structure
Franzoi (2008) stereotype is a general belief that classify people into one particular category and does not allow for variation in individual. The most common stereotype in general society is based on genders. Distinction between women and men has been around for a long time in general society. This distinction indicates construction or shaping (nurturing) processes given to a person rather than his/her inborn features. Women and men have been attached with particular characteristics, physical, personality
itself around the popular public opinion, prejudices, stereotypes etc. The worst part about this is that the people tend to believe in these without knowing enough about it, or without even giving it a second thought. I initially thought that stereotypes and prejudices were something similar. However, after class and after reading about it I realized that they are pretty different. A stereotype is about a group or a community or an action. A stereotype follows an ‘all or none’ policy. However, a prejudice
Men and women differ in physical aspects as well as psychological aspects. An example of a physical aspect is the difference of the genitalia. Men have a penis as the main sexual characteristic while women have a vagina. As part of psychological differences men and women have for example different ways to be aggressive and to hurt someone else caused by aggression. Males are more physical aggressive. They are more likely to engage in a fight, punch someone, or to be violent in general. In contrast