As a group we have put together our first impressions when we think about Gender Communication.
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Elyssa Sykes Bidwell:
Gender communication appears, to me, as a struggle between males and females in both a public and private setting. Males and females use different pitches and tones, along with words and phrases, that translate into different meanings. A majority of the time, however, males and females become upset over a missed cue to execute an order or comment. (Example: Female asks a male to take out trash, but male misses the command. Result: Female get angry at male for not listening. Fight ensues.)
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Abbie Schickler
I believe that in Gender Communication, women are taken less seriously than men. For example, in a family the mother has a ruling word, but there is always something about the father that makes children listen or obey better than they do for the mother. I believe that in the workforce today, it is very similar to this situation. Women may have a voice, but there is something about the men, and their voice is heard louder than the woman’s.
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Ian Goldman
I felt like it was important to look at some the stereotypes that exists about how men and women communicate. Some stereotypes of how women communicate are that they like to gossip and be indirect. While guys tend to be more direct and more competitive ie "dick measuring" trying to see whose the best. Some of the stereotypes of men and women
communicating are girls want a relationship and guys just want well... and another is that guys and girls can't just be friends.
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Kaitlyn Kivi
The key to understanding Gender Communication is how genders have been socially trained to interpret one another. Men talk to men differently than they talk to women, and women are taught from childhood hidden social clues and phrasing that makes inter-gender communication a breeze. Understanding gender communication comes down to understanding how genders are taught to speak to one another.
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Erin Farr
I believe there are many factors that influence widely excepted gender stereotypes. Such factors include sex, education level, and age. Due to this, in our interviews i plan to examine these factors in every interviewee to see if there is a correlation between any/all factors and a certain stereotype.
For me, gender communication is seemingly evolving for the better with regard to respect for women. This is seen in the workplace. The issue of women being in charge is becoming...well...less of an issue. The males seem to follow superiors that are women in a more acceptable and respectful manner. This is a business setting however. At the local bar, a male may talk to a female or respond to a female only if she is by his definition "attractive." This may be done consciously or subconsciously. Nevertheless, I would like to examine male to female communication in a formal setting vs. an informal setting which accent the contextual and social interaction points of Communication.
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