Friday, April 29, 2011
Blog Post # 8
Men in female-dominated professions such as nursing, elementary school teaching, librarianship and social work, experience a "glass escalator" effect. Because they able to advance further and faster, due to the quickly promotion, into the top positions. It is happens due to the traditional gender role and stereotypes; that men are expected to be in the chief roles.
Men were preferred in hiring, and were pushed toward administration, faster than female in jobs that are traditionally associated with women. Being a male provided an advantage in promotion, most of the men were get their job because of their gender. Williams states, "In several cases, the more female-dominated the specialty, the greater the apparent preference for men....... a Massachusetts nurse said, No no, none.....I've heart this from managers and supervisory-type people with men in pediatrics: "It's nice to have a men because it's such a female-dominated profession" (213). "...a social work professor said she would like to see more men enter the social work profession, particularly in the clinical specialty(where they are underrepresented)"(218). It appears that women were preferred to see men enter women occupations.
Women who entering traditionally male professions were face negative stereotypes at work. "Because women felt unaccepted by their male colleagues, one of the last thing they wanted to do was to emphasize their gender. Some women thought that, if they kept company with other women, this would highlight their gender and would further isolate them from male cadets. These women desperately wanted to be accepted as cadets, not as women cadets" (Williams 216). On the other hand "Men in nontraditional occupation face a different scenario- their gender is construed as a positive difference. Therefore, they have an incentive to bond together and emphasize their distinctiveness from the female majority"(Williams 216). Men in female-dominant professions experience a "glass escalator effect", but the women in same professions face "glass celling" effect.
Women who enter male field, where threated in a deferent way, from the men who were enter womens professions. Unlike men, women where faced discrimination in the male field. But men do not face discrimination in male field professions. Men in these professions often work under the direct supervision of other men, and their colleagues are also were men. But the women who entered male dominant professions, feel unacceptable by their male colleagues.Carothers and Crull in 1984 stated that: "Women report feeling excluded from informal leadership and decision- making networks, and they sense hostility from their male co-workers, which makes them feel uncomfortable and unwanted" (Williams 215).
Williams, Christine L. " The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in
the "Female" Professions".Men's Lives. 5th ed. Ed.Michael. S. Kimmel
and Michael A. Massner. New York: Allen & Bacon.2001. 211-224. Print.
Men were preferred in hiring, and were pushed toward administration, faster than female in jobs that are traditionally associated with women. Being a male provided an advantage in promotion, most of the men were get their job because of their gender. Williams states, "In several cases, the more female-dominated the specialty, the greater the apparent preference for men....... a Massachusetts nurse said, No no, none.....I've heart this from managers and supervisory-type people with men in pediatrics: "It's nice to have a men because it's such a female-dominated profession" (213). "...a social work professor said she would like to see more men enter the social work profession, particularly in the clinical specialty(where they are underrepresented)"(218). It appears that women were preferred to see men enter women occupations.
Women who entering traditionally male professions were face negative stereotypes at work. "Because women felt unaccepted by their male colleagues, one of the last thing they wanted to do was to emphasize their gender. Some women thought that, if they kept company with other women, this would highlight their gender and would further isolate them from male cadets. These women desperately wanted to be accepted as cadets, not as women cadets" (Williams 216). On the other hand "Men in nontraditional occupation face a different scenario- their gender is construed as a positive difference. Therefore, they have an incentive to bond together and emphasize their distinctiveness from the female majority"(Williams 216). Men in female-dominant professions experience a "glass escalator effect", but the women in same professions face "glass celling" effect.
Women who enter male field, where threated in a deferent way, from the men who were enter womens professions. Unlike men, women where faced discrimination in the male field. But men do not face discrimination in male field professions. Men in these professions often work under the direct supervision of other men, and their colleagues are also were men. But the women who entered male dominant professions, feel unacceptable by their male colleagues.Carothers and Crull in 1984 stated that: "Women report feeling excluded from informal leadership and decision- making networks, and they sense hostility from their male co-workers, which makes them feel uncomfortable and unwanted" (Williams 215).
Williams, Christine L. " The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in
the "Female" Professions".Men's Lives. 5th ed. Ed.Michael. S. Kimmel
and Michael A. Massner. New York: Allen & Bacon.2001. 211-224. Print.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Blog post # 7 Chicano Men and Masculinity.
According Zinn author "Chicano Men and Masculinity", Chicano male have Mexican heritage,"....it's lie in the historical conquest of Mexico by Spain involving the exploitation of Indian woman by Spanish men this producing the hybrid Mexican people"(25). In Chicano culture, all men are called macho male; they are "demands, ...respect and obedience not only from the wife but from the children as well"(Zinn 24). Chicano men are dominant, they think that they have power over their families. Chicano children learned from the young age, that man have to have certain stereotypes of masculinity, like their fathers: be aggressive and dominant.Chicano male have to make all decision in the house while woman expected to clean, cook take care of the house and children. Man have a final word in the family, and he expects to be respected by other family members. " The father is the unquestioned patriarch - the family provider, protector and judge. His word is low and demands strict obedience ( Zinn24). Chicano father displays those macho qualities to their sons, he enjoys patriarchal way of life, and expects from his son to retain the same power when they grow up. As dominance and physical abuse can be seen normal in Chicano families, so that idea of macho men pass from generation to generation. The young males start acting out in a way their father are; trying to be machismo too. Chicano men to prove their manhood are: abusive, controlling, excessive drinkers, fighters. Also they have negative stereotypes like: violence, laziness and criminality. They known as aggressive type and gangs members. They also establish they own language, a style of dressing and behavior. They can't adapt to the modern society.
Works Cited
Zinn, Maxine Baca." Chicano Men and Masculinity" Men's Life 5th ed. Ed.Michael Kimmel
and Michael Messner. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2001. 24-32. Print.
Works Cited
Zinn, Maxine Baca." Chicano Men and Masculinity" Men's Life 5th ed. Ed.Michael Kimmel
and Michael Messner. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2001. 24-32. Print.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Who's is the man?
If you consider you self as a man, you need to respond like a man and act like a man. That is the main idea for masculinity. I think that in a both articles the man a similar. In Poul Theroux "The Male Myth " he dislike to be as a man , because simply you can do certain jobs, like being a writer, it well be considered by society as incompatible with being a man and this is not masculine. According to Poul Theroux , to be considered masculine, man need hunt ducks, and carry knife, produce wealth. In the article Manning Marable "The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes" Black men also dislike to be man, as a slave. They can't do what they want to: be free, or to have family, but only what they supposed to be told to do by their master. And if they do show masculinity they were castrated.
Works Cited:
Marble, Manny."The Black Male: Search Beyond Stereotypes." Men's Live. 5ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A.Messner Ed. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 2001 p 17-23. Print.
Theroux, Paul. "The Male Myth." Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers. 7th ed. Sheena gillespie and Robert Becker Ed. New York: Person Longman, 2008. p 101-105. Print.
Works Cited:
Marble, Manny."The Black Male: Search Beyond Stereotypes." Men's Live. 5ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A.Messner Ed. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 2001 p 17-23. Print.
Theroux, Paul. "The Male Myth." Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers. 7th ed. Sheena gillespie and Robert Becker Ed. New York: Person Longman, 2008. p 101-105. Print.
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