At first I appologies for my english: sorry!
The discussion about male or female boss has been frequently retaked. The access to the power in the work place relations (also in the occidental, capitalist and white man society) is the main point. I don´t have a criteria reserch to discuss the theme, but I've been verified that when women get the power, they're harder than the men, probably because the things that Linda and Marta wrotes. Arguing what to do, I've thinking about the possibilities in the women hands to change: they still responsable for the first infancy education. Propably, stoping to separate tasks for girl and boy, be a start.
Best wishes,
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Jair Nascimento Santos
Salvador/Bahia/Brazil
Tel.: (5571) 3247-6832/9165-3357
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> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:59:48 -0400
> From:
smircich@MGMT.UMASS.EDU
> Subject: Re: Gallup poll on preferences for male/female boss.
> To:
GDO-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
>
> Given that most work organizations are hierarchical and competitive, most
> people would prefer to have access to scarce resources, and associations with
> those others who are powerful (more likely white men), so people often say
> they don't want a woman boss. Sometimes they’ll say: "because she's hard to
> work with"...but she is often "hard to work with" because of her structural
> situation. It is often in fact the case that she WILL be disadvantaged in
> various ways and therefore so might her subordinates be.
>
> Further, it's not unusual to hear about the 'problem' that " women can't work
> with women” in boss-subordinate pairs or of the 'problem' of female secretaries
> who kvetch all the time and back-bite one another. In other words, there’s a
> whole collection of ‘common sense’ wisdom about women in the workplace.
>
> We in the GDO division have a lot of work to do to continue to show how social
> and structural conditions contribute to explaining these dynamics. In other
> words they can be seen as the effects of how work places and society are
> organized rather than due to the presumed inadequacies or predilections of
> individual women.
>
> Beyond the theoretical analyses that show how structural relations are also
> gender-power relations, on the matter of research methods, we should address
> the poll makers, and ask questions such as: who are these “Americans”? from
> where in the country, what about their race and class? how many people in the
> sample have actually experienced working for both male and female bosses? at
> what level of the organization were those bosses?…and so on and on….
>
> Best wishes,
> Linda and Marta
>
>
>
>
> Quoting David Kravitz <
dkravitz@GMU.EDU>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I thought the following might interest you.
> >
> > David
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Latest From the Gallup News Service
> > Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:00:54 -0500
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> >
> >
> > Latest From the Gallup News Service
> >
> > BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
> > Americans Prefer Male Boss to a Female Boss -
> >
http://www.gallup.com/nl/?24346,AlertBE,9/1/2006,
> > Americans are nearly twice as likely to say they would prefer their new boss
> > to be a man rather than a woman, though a greater percentage volunteers that
> > the gender would make no difference. Most men say it would not matter whether
> > their boss is male or female, while women are most likely to prefer a male
> > boss.
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