Posted on 03/17/2018 5:35:47 PM PDT by simpson96
Most people will draw a man. Researchers investigate the consequences.
This series of images emerged from a simple prompt: “Draw an effective leader.”
Tina Kiefer, a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, fell upon the exercise accidentally, while leading a workshop full of executives who did not speak much English. Since then it has been adopted by organizational psychologists across the world.
In terms of gender, the results are almost always the same. Both men and women almost always draw men.
“Even when the drawings are gender neutral,” which is uncommon, Dr. Kiefer said in an email, “the majority of groups present the drawing using language that indicates male (he) rather than neutral or female.”
And yet, her clients often insisted that what they meant by “he” is actually “both.”
Several researchers in organizational psychology who have had a similar experience with this exercise decided to investigate further. How might holding unconscious assumptions about gender affect people’s abilities to recognize emerging leadership? What they found, in a study posted by the Academy of Management Journal, seems to confirm what many women have long suspected: getting noticed as a leader in the workplace is more difficult for women than for men. Even when a man and a woman were reading the same words off a script, only the man’s leadership potential was recognized.
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One can’t have it both ways. One can’t say that women have a more cooperative or collaborative way of working together and then complain that people don’t see women as leaders in an older, individualistic mould. And of course, it’s not like women are all alike. Some probably do fit into the Boudica/Joan of Arc/Thatcher pattern. Others don’t.
She did have more power. Interesting input.
There are honest people, who love with great sincerity. There are places in your heart, deep places, that would be awakened only with the love of an honest person. You may never know that love, which is sad. The very best to you!
If I ever found such a person, she would shortly tell me truthfully that all I want to do is spend time with dogs, and I would say yep, and then she would leave.
The very best to you as well, Bellflower.
yep...Hitler, Mussolini,Toon,Idi Amin, Stalin, barry soetoro....all great leaders....
Of course, you’re right! What was I thinking!? All men are just evil.
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