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Communication Hot Topic:

Communication Hot Topic:. Gender. Defining Gender.

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  1. Communication Hot Topic: Gender

  2. Defining Gender Refers to the social relationship or roles and responsibilities of men and women, the expectations held about the characteristics, aptitudes and likely behaviours of both women and men (femininity and masculinity) that are learned, change over time and vary within and between cultures.

  3. A Word about Stereotypes Both women and men can be nurturing, aggressive, task-focused, or sentimental. What is important to think about, however, is that women and men sometimes perceive the same messages to have different meanings. In fact, it may be as a result of the differences in message interpretation that the "battle of the sexes" occurs.

  4. Values

  5. Regulating Intimacy vs. Negotiating Heirarchy Studies indicate that women, to a greater extent than men, are sensitive to the interpersonal meanings that lie "between the lines" in the messages they exchange with their mates.

  6. Societal expectations often make women responsible for regulating intimacy, or how close they allow others to come. For that reason, it is argued that women pay more attention than men to the underlying meanings about intimacy that messages imply.

  7. Men on the other hand, to a greater extent than women, are more sensitive to "between the lines meanings" about status. For men, societal expectations are that they must negotiate hierarchy, or who's the captain and who's the crew.

  8. Comparison of NonVerbal Signals: Men Women

  9. Comparison of NonVerbal Signals: Men Women

  10. And now for a little humor . . .

  11. If you want to read further . . . Dr. Lillian Glass' book, He Says, She Says: Closing the Communication Gap Between the Sexes (The Putnam Berkeley Group) she details her findings on the many differences in the way men and women communicate, both verbally and non-verbally. www.geocities.com/Wellesley/2052/genddiff.html

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