Week 6 #3 Powerless Stereotypes

In today’s society, generally speaking people base their actions and natures due to their gender roles. Males tend to feel they are dominate of the species, however women feel they are dominate and each gender play different action roles. Following this forward, men tend to act different in situation than women due. For example, males tend to ignore conflict that isn’t of physical nature. On the other hand, women will tend to react and speak off of the nonverbal communication. “Numerous studies have shown that women throughout the world are more accurate, sensitive receivers of nonverbal communication than men (Anderson, 1999, p. 122).Sex-role stereotyping continues in many groups and organizations, fostering expectations that men will act like leaders and women will act like subordinates (Remland,2000). What we mean by this is typically in a leadership position people tend to feel a man should be a leader because they are bigger and stronger, however, that’s not always the case because women now today are more intelligent and just as smart and strong as a typical man. Studies incdicate that women are more effective than men as managers and leaders in the areas of motivating others, fostering communication, producing high-quality work, and listening to others (Sharpe, 2000) Nevertheless, we can conclude that women can have the same opportunity as men and are capable of holding a leadership positions. These stereotypes have played a role in society for years, by what jobs women and men feel they can apply for. Whether in a group people tend to work with people that have the similar views to us. Homophily, which is our tendency to want to be in groups with people who are similar to us, however, can deny us important viewpoints from multicultural world (p. 121). Instead we need to create group situation conducive to being inclusive in order to enhance the group process and limited the powerless of stereotypes.