#26

Looking at several case studies, one may observe all the reasons keeping gender equality out of our society.   One specific study explains the results of surveys taken rating the quality of company leader and superiors. The study showed that "individuals were found to make different judgments about identical leadership behaviors depending on whether those behaviors were attributed to men or women. Women exhibiting the same behaviors as men were judged less favorable than men" (Carter, 29). As well as the descriptive stereotyping of the qualities women are capable of, the studies show that our culture also carries a prescriptive stereotype for women, stating the beliefs about the parts women and men should play in society. In the case study the participants were asked to make promotion recommendations. Results showed that little evidence was needed for the men's leadership abilities as compared to women. Also there was evidence that when women went beyond their prescriptive female stereotypes, by mastering leadership roles, they endured unfair punishments. Also as females would perform leadership jobs with competitive attitudes, such as men in similar positions do, they were accused of hostile behavior. Identical tasks of the different sex's were even rewarded differently, favoring the male of course. All in all, the conclusion of the study provided that the participants recommendations favored compensating the male leaders as in relation to female promoting. As expected by other studies concerning gender biasing, studies propose that females are in certain risk of discrimination and stereotyping in the workplace.

#26

Despite the enormous amounts of gender stereotyping that how society faces, women are on the move to do big things. The massive increase of women in the labor force, during the recent half of this century is occurring because of the help of this progressively materialistic, competitive, and technologically abled society. The direction toward gender equality relates to the past gender roles of million of years ago when both the males and females shared the act of gathering and proving for their families. Similar to then in our ancestor's days, today women provide family-income just as they contributed back then. The idea of the two-income family is barely rare these days. The talents of women to create networks, and come to consensus, will lead to new ideas in the art of negotiation. The women's brain will be required in the progression of business, education, medicine, law, and the media. "The natural talents of women as communicators, integrators of information, negotiators, educators, and healers are recognized and exploited in the global marketplace, they will reshape many professions and corporations" (McDonald, 1). With the increase in women power and the acceptance of women in society, the confidence of the female will rise, correlating with the decrease in male confidence and power. This effect, concerning confidence and power,  is due to a female's aptitude to control conception, the major increase in single motherhood, the rise of women's wages in relation with men's, the habit of the U.S. government to decline welfare to male-headed families, and a rise in social recognition of male bashing in our culture.

#24

Why have we yet to have a woman president in this country? This is somewhat a rhetorical question because our society could tell you the answer is because she's a women. In our society gender stereotyping is one of the most biased things out there. People in our world dismiss the pervasive vacancy of females in leadership positions and roles because of the diversity in the traits of men and women. Yet, studies have shown that this biased perspective is so easy to have but yet very hard to prove with evidence. Studies prove that females and males share many more traits and qualities than ones that they don't. Both men and women are found to share the stand out qualities of cognitive thinking and personality traits. So surprising was this fact that the authors "concluded that a person's sex was not a realiable indicator of how that person would lead (Carter, 26). Women in the bussiness world well-qualified for postions in leadership declare that the gender stereotyping in society about females being able to lead continue and end in bias and discimination. The common beliefs of society say that female leaders are ultimately less task-oriented than male leaders. The stereotype of men depict that they geniunely carry qualities of a leader just because of thier gender and that women sterotyping depicts ill-suited leadership skills. We will never question why a man has authority in certain postions but it's our nature to examine a woman in power. Many women are rising up in big postions but get stopped before reaching their full capablitly because society is so quick to judge a woman's abilitys before they even know them just because of the fact she is a female.

#22

The scholarly article I read today was called "Independent School Leadership -A Gendered Experience," by Susan Feibelman and Martha Haakmat. Ultimately this article discusses why more women aren't at the top positions and in leadership roles in independent schools. The reason the article gives for women not rising up to the ranks of leadership in the independent school communities is of course gender based. They say it's the same reason why our country hasn't of yet elected a female as the president of the United States, gender biases and issues of the broader culture. In fact our country is currently tied for 69th place among counties with the greatest percentages of females in national legislatures. Like I've discovered in most of the  articles I've been reading for this paper, cultural beliefs are not beneficial to women in leadership roles. This article explains why in four main points. First, female leaders are expected to combine compassion with their leadership and when they don't they are disliked. Secondly, people less adequately and take commands from women than men. Next, when women advertise themselves and their capacity they acquire disapproval. And finally, as opposed to men, to be good leaders, women need more apparent acceptance and awards to feel secure in her position. It is told that the hardships actually facing women to maintain leadership roles, has nothing to do with their actual skill it's just the societal stereotype. The article goes on to say that the schools need to acknowledge that this gender biased problem is hurting their school and they need to do something about it. This is yet another article that proves my stereotyping topic, women have the traits to do the important things but are not accepted to do them because of their gender.

#21

The article I read today is called "Women 'Take Care,' Men 'Take Charge': Managers' Sterotypic Perceptions of Women and Men Leaders" by Jeanine L Prime and Nancy M Carter. This article is ultimately all about gender stereotyping. The article says that because of the beliefs of the great gender difference is so noticeable, society frequently likes to blame the gender inequalities for the reason why we hear of the differences in the skills and traits of women and men. The article discusses conducted studies showing that all the records of gender inequality are oh so easy to assume but not as easy to support with actual evidence. Studies they've shown prove that women are a lot more like men than they are different, in both personality traits and cognitive functioning. This article is proof the harsh women stereotyping in the business and leadership world. Global views implicate the beliefs that women carry less leadership qualities as opposed to typical men and also that female leaders are less task -oriented than leaders in general. Women notice the different biased behavior they are treated with based on their gender, and conclude these reasons are what is stopping their career advancements. The main point of this article is how gender stereotyping describe men to be genuinely fit with the qualities for leadership and describe women being unfit for a leadership position. It goes on to describe their studies, research, gender behaviors and beliefs. I think this article is an excellent source for my paper dealing with gender stereotyping.

#20

The article I read today is called "Citing the Rising Influence and Power of Women" by Kim A. McDonald . This article is about two colleagues's at Rutgers University comparing their predictions of future gender roles and what will happen to the world when women continuing to gain power. One anthropologist from Rutgers believes that the turn approaching gender equality is a recurrence to the past ancestral relationships between the sexes millions of years ago. More and more women are entering the workforce and creating two-income families and there is always a growing number of females in higher education. Society is just becoming generally feminized. The accustomed traits of females such as, negotiators, communicators, educators, integrators of information, and healers are recognized and exercised in the global marketplace. These talents will "reshape" corporations and professions, according to Helen E. Fisher. The female capabilities of contextually analyzing, developing interpersonal skills, and their efficiency for language will prosper the the assembling and altering of information and their traits of compassion and need to nurture will make the the female presence in medical schools rise resulting in the change of the face of medicine. In this society it is being discovered that a lot of areas of specialization are going to require a women's mind. The article goes on to tell what this transfer of gender power will do to men and families as a whole. This article relates a lot to my topic of women becoming equals. I think this will be a very helpful source.

#19

One of potential sources for my research paper is an article called "Iron ladies, men of steel: The effects of gender stereotyping on the perception of male and female candidates are moderated by prototypically,"written by Joris Lammers, Ernestine H. Gordijn, and Sabine Otten. This article is about women being underrepresented in parliamentary positions and the stereotype that they often face. The article explains how equal representation in parliament is crucial for three important reasons. One, the United Nations Development Program accents that female political power is necessary for good governance. Two, without participation of half of the population, the theory of democracy will not work. And lastly, the participation of females in representative bodies can deliver independence because women politicians can act as role models. Despite these reasons, worldwide only 16% of parliamentary seats are held by women. Even if, stereotyping of sexism has become "less hostile, more subtle, and more benevolent in tone" it still has a contrary effect on how females are perceived and how people act towards them. Gender is generally one of the first departments of which people are judged and it is also one of the most intrusive departments. The article explains that voters tend to favor a politician based on their view on the problem they think is the most important. Because men are viewed as competitive and assertive, people often vote for them when they think terrorism or something to that degree is most important and women would only be favored if someone thought maybe health-care was the most important problem, because females are seen as "communal and pro-social." Voters are very reliant of stereotyping because it makes it easy to achieve a fast image of the political candidates and use that image to assess the weaknesses of that certain candidate.