GENDER DIFFERENCES

MASCULINE-FEMININE CONTINUUM

• Often listed as another dimension of culture along
• Individualism/collectivism
• High or low context
• Power distance

4 MAJIOR DIFFERENCES

• Expressive vs. instrumental
• Task vs. relationship
• Forcefulness
• Individual vs. group

EXPRESSIVE VS. INTRUMENTAL

• Expressive: focuses on feeling and relationships
• Ex. Before a meeting the person would how your life is going or make friendly conversation
• Instrumental: straight to the point
• Ex. When somebody arrives to work they to straight to their task at hand...task oriented
• Usually women are expressive while men seem to be more instrumental

Task vs. relationship
Women tend to be the ones in a group to care and want to help anyway possible

FORCEFULNESS

• How much somebody talks
• Interrupt others
• Claims personal space
• Calls attention to themselves in a conversation
• Men tend to be more forceful than women

INDIVIDUAL VS. GROUP

• Individual: seek spotlight
• Highlight their own individual accomplishments
• Most commonly men
• Group: women like to shine light in everybody

IN CONCLUSION

• Making generalizations about genders are misleading
• Study has shown that an average,
• men interrupt each other the same amount of times as women do

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