Thursday, May 22, 2008
Men in control at meetings
Why are men always trying to be in control at meetings??? Honestly, I feel men are on a power and control trip. The men tend to direct the conversations, define the topics and interrupts constantly. According to Wood, men generally exceed women in non-verbal efforts to exert control. Men tend to use greater volume to be heard and stronger influences for their ideas. To me, this is frustrating when meetings are for everyone to collaborate together and share ideas. When there is a dominate control, not much is accomplished and goals are not set and attained. To me, women have come a long way in the corporate industry and we deserve a fair chance!
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I do understand totally what you mean by this but men are the dominate species and women are more laid back. I learned in workforce Diversity that if you take two people; a man and woman who are in the same position talking about the same things in a meeting, it is more likely that a man is listened to more then a woman. Both women and men take directions better from men then women but women do explain better and tend to give more details. We want things to be equal where gender is concerned but we ourselves even discriminate against our own. This isn’t something I am making up there have been studies that show that we are innate creatures who follow habit and for the most part men are dominate and that is who we follow. I don’t feel its right but it’s so difficult to come away from that. These traits are imbedded in us from birth so how if at all can you come away from it. We don’t even realize we are doing it when we do do it.
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