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LANGUAGE, GENDER and CULTURE - Coggle Diagram
LANGUAGE, GENDER and CULTURE
Professions
Male
CEO
A lot of the CEOs are males, mostly because of the society standards
Mechanic
Almost every mechanic is a male, because a lot of males are interested in being mechanics
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Female
Secretary
Secretarial schools offered professional training, which made it possible for many women to enter the career without a full college education.
Beautician
Mostly women are beauticians because it is more relatable field to women and most of men are not interested in beauty industry
Teacher
Teaching was one way in which women could work outside their own households while still being examples of purity and nurturance in the past.
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Nurse
Many females flock to this profession because of their inherent capacity to care for another human being.
Why I Want A Wife
“I want a wife who will care for me when I am sick and sympathize with my pain and loss of time from school.”
Behaviors
Male
Agressive
Males are competing for reproductive success, so are more aggressive generally and especially to other males. It's human nature.
The Manly Jobs
“I don’t think you can understand this notion of sexual harassment and men’s anger with women, their willingness to take out on them all this sexual hostility, unless you imagine that sense of entitlement in the job,”
Stoic
Men have ability to endure, to stay calm and rational in moments of crisis
Confident
Men, on average, have around 10% higher levels of testosterone compared to females which increase risk-taking and raise confidence levels.
Ambitious
Ambition drives men to set impressive goals and do everything in their power to achieve them
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Female
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Caring
Females are biologically driven to "care" by a neural pathway, stimulated by endocrine hormones.
The Correct Spelling of Father
“breastfeeding on one arm phone on the shoulder cooking with the other arm cleaning with one leg tying sneakers with their teeth”
Nurturing
It is implicitly expected that women will care for the young, the sick and the elderly. Women help others grow, they bring them back to health, respond to their needs and offer support.
Why I Want A Wife
“I want a wife who cooks the meals, a wife who is a good cook. I want a wife who will plan the menus, do the necessary grocery shopping, prepare the meals, serve them pleasantly, and then do the cleaning up while I do my studying.”
Expressive
Women tend to be more expressive than men mainly because of different harmones and position in society
Emotional
Women start off with biologically based lower arousal and better emotion vocabulary and they are socialized over time to enhance expression of emotion and, in particular, socialized to adopt the female gender role to express more “relational” positive emotions
Appearances
Female
Dresses/skirts
Stereotypically, women wear dresses and skirts, it being a traditional clothing for women to enhance their bodies.
Long hair
Woment tend to have long(er) hair, they can style it. Long hair is a sign of fertility, and attractiveness.
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High pitched voice
Females' vocal folds are placed in a smaller vocal tract and are characterised by being thinner and smaller
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Male
Facial hair
Men have more androgens than women and additionally find hair sprouting on their chest, upper lip and face.
Deep voice
Men have deeper voices because of testosterone, the hormone that elongates the vocal cords during puberty
Barbershop
“They talked casually but passionately about sports, basketball especially, with the deep resonance that reverberates in my hungry ears”
Muscular
The greater muscle mass of men is the result of testosterone-induced muscular hypertrophy. Men also have denser, stronger bones, tendons, and ligaments.
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Emotions
Female
Empathetic
Women show more empathy to connect with other people and it's a natural instinct to care about others.
Why I Want A Wife
“I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs. I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after my children, a wife who will pick up after me.”
Caring
Female's natural instinct is to care about others, show affection and try to help
The Correct Spelling of Father
“planting kisses on our cheeks hugs on our backs growing their love on us the best way they know how”
Compasionate
Femals tend to be more compassionate because they are better at bonding, social connection
Anxious
Women are more sensitive to a hormone that organizes stress response, making them twice as vulnerable as men to stress-related disorders.
Emotional
Women start off with biologically based lower arousal and better emotion vocabulary and they are socialized over time to enhance expression of emotion
Male
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Focused
The male brain is compartmentalized and specialized to concentrate on one specific task at once.
Barbershop
“For a few seconds, the men … seemed to listen, but then continued with their conversation.”
Confident
Men, on average, have around 10% higher levels of testosterone compared to females which increase risk-taking and raise confidence levels
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