To determine whether male and female managers differ in their leadership approach, Van Eagen et al. (2001) conducted a field study in four large department stores in the Netherlands. ... In their results, Van Engen et al. (2001) found no gender difference in the predicted leadership styles. ... In particular, they found that "male and female managers [were] more people-oriented, more transformational, and less task-oriented when leading in a feminine-type context, and less people-oriented, less transformational, and more task-oriented when leading in masculine-typed contexts" (Van Engen et al...

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He believed that 'behaviour, including crime, is a social product, a result of interactions and patterns of learning that occur in the intimate personal groups and surrounding social circumstances that encapsulate the individual' (Hale et al. 2013: 123). ... This experiment was conducted in the way that 'a group of infants watched a film depicting an adult violently attacking a rubber 'Bobo' doll' (Hale et al. 2013: 124). ...

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Abstract In recent years, many critiques expressed their concern about the social issue of gender in Western cultures. Although the notion of gender may seem obvious and natural to many people, nowadays, many others agree that this issue deserves more attention. The aim of this assignment is to disc...

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In fact in Graham's study males were referred to seven times as often as females (Graham 1973 in Thorne et al 1983). ... Silveira (1980 in Thorne et al 1983) found in a series of studies that while women tended to interpret gender-biased "generic" pronouns as generic men tended to interpret them as meaning "male" and that this included terms that simply contained the word "man". ... Thorne et al (1983) points out another kind of linguistic sexism that more even clearly demonstrates the social disempowerment of women in the English language. ... While the argument still rages as to whether...

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The bases of this come from the father's own sense of gender identity and that this influence encourages young males to conduct themselves in a certain manner (cited in Van Krieken et al, 2013). ...

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Abstract Gender Stereotyping affects everyone in society, both male, and female, young and old and is one of the most researched topics amongst social psychologists. This study aims to discover if gender stereotypes still exist in today's modern society and, if they do, why they are perpetuated. Is it always for a negative reason? The study adopted a focus group methodology with fifteen groups of 7-9 participants, all university students (n=133). There were 21 males and 111 females in the study. ...

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While searching the American Psychological Associations (APA) website I found a great article that showed that there are several variables of sexual orientation that affect the classroom experience and academic achievement of K-12 students. Population being studied in this case is jr' high and high ...

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