I think it mighta been one of these that we dodged :O
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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Notice that I said “usually”.
Imagine if she were POTUS and presenting that image to the entire world. Lucky us, she’s just a bitter old hag with a broken wrist.
I'm happy to have my male boss give me a job to do. But, a female boss . . . I want to know why she thinks she's my mother.
Yes, I did. However, I was quibbling slightly. Men as leaders are numerous enough to draw a bell curve. Women who rise to the top without favoritism are likely to hit the high end. In my opinion.
I can’t. I literally cannot imagine the possibility of this pitiful, corrupt, absolute disgraceful loser woman was president of this country.
I mean all I can say is HOLY FLURKING SHNIT! THANK YOU, JESUS! Please forgive my language.
I think it mighta been one of these that we dodged :O
Mope.
Too self centered.
Yeah I think so too.
Read your review and you said Liz I was great.
The girl in me is screaming she was cruel and acted like a man! Daddy’s sadistic coat tails. The adult in me knows she advanced her country and her people.
Thatcher was fabulous!!!!!! Her, Regan, JPII. The planet lucked out.
Maggie Thatcher, Golda Meir? Hell yes.
So when asked this, say “Yes, I picture Margaret Thatcher” (or similar) and you will hear the libs yell and screech.
Women who rise to the top without favoritism are likely to hit the high end.
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Most definitely. But such women are very rare, whereas there are many men who are gifted leaders and inspire others to follow them.
Well said.
It depends on what the goal is. There’s not much attention paid to leading a preschool class!
Yep
But what you said is logical. And logic is just so...so...mean and all.
True. But I think that when people use the word leader they are talking about leaders of adults.
That is great! Thanks.
Same here. Don’t want a woman to lead me.
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