Posted by gabbix2 on January 30, 2004, at 13:22:22
In reply to Re: Jealous women at work - what to do about them?, posted by shar on January 29, 2004, at 22:16:27
Yeah, it made sense..
>Stereotypes really concern me a lot. Whether
they are about women or blacks or eye-ties (like me) or short people or smart people.....they may contain a kernel of truth, but by and large they simply don't hold up very well if one looks at the gender/ethnicity/brains of individuals rather than "them" (groups). And, even looking at groups is pretty tricky. A body of research has shown that roles more than traits differentiate males and females, and there are greater within-group (same sex) differences than between-group differences (male vs. female) when measuring traits.Finally, about men not being competitive with each other in the way that women do, it might not look the same because certain behaviors are proscribed for men, but it happens. And, sometimes the solution is to take out on women what they'd like to do to the men at work.
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