Outline for Presentation

(Everyone) Intro:

Make video montage (Miss Congeniality, He’s just that not into you, She the man, Up, Brady bunch, Sydney White, Princess Bride, 500 Days of Summer, My Girl)

Summary introduction

-Lay out three points

Drawing exercise

(Kaitlyn & Nick) Childhood = how life factors affect perceived gender rolls.

-Peers

-Genetics

-Familiar relationships

(Collect videos to for examples: for ex. Hanna Montana, Wizards of Weaverly Place, Suit life of Zack and Cody, Disney Shows, etc)

(Elyssa & Erin) Professionalism = code of conduct in a work place

-How to take what you learned in your childhood and applying to your professional life.

(Abbie & Ian) Romantic Relationships = how ones past experiences effect their capacity for success and failure in a romantic relationship.

(Everyone) Conclusion

-Sum up research

Submitted by- Abbie Schickler

Media post #8

Wives/Mothers who work full time:

· Average 26 hrs per week in household labor

· Work in and outside of the home a total of 69 hrs

· 96% of cooking

· 92% of dishwashing

· 90% of vacuuming

· 90% of bedmaking

Husbands/Fathers who work full time:

· Average 10 hrs a week in household labor

· Work in and outside of the home a total of 52 hrs

· 80% of home repairs

· 75% of lawn mowing

· 77% of snow shoveling

Men see their household role as provider, financial security, bringing home the bacon. In this view, it is logical that their wives should take on more household duties to make up for the time the husband spends at work. However, in families where both the husband and wife work full time this model is no longer the case. Men continue to hold on to the outdated view that their career is more important and thus they should take on fewer household responsibilities. In today’s equality system and economy in which many families have 2 incomes, the idea of one breadwinner and one house warmer is insufficient.

Gamble, T. K., & Gamble, M. W. (2003). The gender communication connection. (pp. 202-204). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Submitted by- Kaitlyn Kivi

Media post #7

Here is a link to a video that is helping us in our research in Gender Studies.

Submitted by- Nick Jarob

Media Review #5

In the video 'Gender Communication,' the main speaker talks about her experience shopping for couches with her husband. She expected what most women have thought of when going through the 'honeymoon' stage: walking in the store hand in hand, sitting on all the couches, and then going home to discuss and figure out which sofa to buy. Instead, the couple don't walk into the store hand in hand, and by the third couch, the husband is done with the shopping. The speaker's imagined interaction between herself and her husband did not go the way she wanted it to go. This clip works very well with our ideas in relationships between the sexes by imagining a scenario that we, as a group, can use in our presentation.

-Submitted by Elyssa Bidwell

Meeting Notes

08/09/11 Group Project

Topic: Gender Communication

Secretary/ note taker – Erin

Typing – Ian

09/11/11 Group Meeting

What was discussed:

-Who finds articles for next week.

-Who reviews articles for next week.

-Who’s doing interviews for next week.

-Kaitlyn will email out to everyone a schedule where people can sign for the different jobs every week until the project is done.

-Group meeting are going to be on Thursday

-Uniform interviews sheets: including age, sex, and education level as factors for the answers.

-Group email is genderstudies222@gmail.com

Personal Interview #3

NIC JARBOE INTERVIEW

GENDER: Female

AGE: 27

HIGHEST LEVEL OF EDUCATION: College Degree

1. What are the fundamental differences between how men and women communicate?

- “Men don’t express feelings as well as women. Also, they aren’t equipped to handle women expressing their feelings.”

2. Are either men or women better communicators? If so, why do believe this to be true?

- “Women are because they have no problem telling you how they feel.”

3. What factors make communication between anyone effective and successful?

- “Expressing how you feel without pointing fingers and using people.”

4. Do you treat younger people differently in the restaurant?

- “Yes, I use less formal language.”

5. Do you treat older people differently in the restaurant?

- “Yes, I use more formal language and am more attentive.”

6. Do you speak to girls your own age differently than older or younger people?

- “Yes, I feel as though they are more on my level. I feel like we ate going through life together and at the same rate. I feel most comfortable with people my age.

-Submitted by Nick Jarboe

Media review #6

Gender Communication is one of the most widely studies subjects. Many say that personal identity is the most important aspect in the Western culture. Researchers tend to look at the differences between men and woman rather than the similarities, they look at the stereotypes of men and women to find the answers to their questions. Women are expected to be gentle, warm, cooperative and caring. Men are expected to be competitive, competence and learders. Since girls and boys are trained to be this way as a young child and through their adolescent years, it is easy to predict their actions as adults. However, some researchers do not agree with this concept. Some think that gender cannot be separated from the culture. It is a very diverse research because there are so many different opinions and views.

-Submitted by Abbie Schickler

Media Post #6

Here is the link to the article for this media post.

Submitted by Ian Goldman

Media post #5

Here is a a video that describes some typical and humerus miss communications between men and women, specifically married couples.

Submitted by Abbie Schickler

Media Review #4

Review #4 (Gender Differences in Managerial Communication: Fact or Folk-linguistics?)

Kaitlyn Kivi

Folk linguistics (common beliefs about a language) make gender linguistic studies difficult to measure, as many conclusions are based on opinion, speculation, personal experience and introspect. Stereotypical generalizations place women as submissive and men as aggressive and also generalize that women express difficulties in oral and written communication which are two skills essential to success. These common ideas place women one-step behind on the business ladder and actualize the generalization to women that it is acceptable to be an insufficient communicator. The effect of self-actualization of these negative stereotypes on women can be proven by looking at a study proving that the receiver’s gender does not influence the communications of either the male or female sender. Expectations of communicative efficiency are passed off as common knowledge and hinder the true possible achievements of women in the workplace.

Media post #4

Synposis

- Women encounter difficulty in getting promoted in the workplace

- Factors include education, attitude from males, rules and procedures in organization, and differences in sex

- Folk linguistics = common beliefs about a language

- Women stereotypically express difficulties in both oral and written communication.

- Written and oral communication = two most important skills for success

- Women discriminated against in both taught language and how general language treats them

- Many studies done/ looked into – inconclusive since many conclusions are based on opinion, speculation, personal experience, and introspect.

- Stereotypes about expectations and assumptions of the linguistic behavior persist.

- Stereotypical generalizations also stem form cultural differences

- Women tend to be rated speech wise as submissive, while men are rated as aggressively

- Based on sex role image

- Women may have a harder time communicating in a male dominated environment versus a women dominated environment.

- Study done: Receiver's gender does not influence the communications of either the male or female sender.

- Written communication is less effective than oral communication: Adds the stereotypes into the person's mind, causing different reactions to happen. (A lot like email and texting today – Did they mean this or this?)

Clarification: The study done focused on written communication between males and females in a MBA program, and focused on these three questions:

1) Do females use a different communication style than males in managerial communication situations?

2) Is the quality of females' communication different from that of males in the managerial communication situations?

3) Do senders' communication style and quality differ as a function of the receivers' gender?

Overall thoughts: This article is a good source to keep. Maybe we can try creating an activity by using the study and seeing if the results are the same in class?

Source:

Smeltzer, L. R., & Werbel, J. D. (1986). Gender Differences in Managerial Communication: Fact or Folk-linguistics?. Journal of Business Communication, 23(2), 41-50. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

-Submitted by Ellissa