Gender and Leadership
Regarding Gender and Leadership: ‘Why do you think that some multinationals nevertheless tend not to give serious consideration to female candidates for managerial positions in, for example, the Middle East?’ and post your discussion to this thread- Module 5. Read the answers posted by others.
Leadership styles differ from one region to another. Living in India I know that there are more gender biasness in a business situation there as opposed to Canada. You will see gender biasness in a lot of developing and emerging economies. Being from an Asian background, I know in our culture, the society restricts and tells you that there are certain “jobs for women” and certain “jobs for men”. For example, most parents in the Asian culture will not be supporting of their daughter going into an army because that is not “a job for a girl” to do. There is even a great animation movie called Mulan that portrays the gender discrimination, although things are a bit more liberal now.
Additionally, in a situation where there are male and female candidates for a managerial position in for example, Canada or United States then chances are that women and men will be given equal consideration based on their education and experience because that’s the societal norm and the law, obviously keeping in mind the industry. There are certain industries that men do well in and certain industries that women do better in. For example, we have more male engineers than female engineers in Canada(Hango, D. 2013.)
However, if we stick with the example of Middle Eastern countries, we know that it is mostly a very male dominated society and they have a very patriarchal society. The gender norm constraints are strict, and the social and cultural norms highly dictate the do’s and don’t of everyday conduct. They reflect elements of a patriarchal society in which men and women are partners but with different roles.(World Bank. 2013). Men’s role is to be the bread winner in the family and the women are
Leadership styles differ from one region to another. Living in India I know that there are more gender biasness in a business situation there as opposed to Canada. You will see gender biasness in a lot of developing and emerging economies. Being from an Asian background, I know in our culture, the society restricts and tells you that there are certain “jobs for women” and certain “jobs for men”. For example, most parents in the Asian culture will not be supporting of their daughter going into an army because that is not “a job for a girl” to do. There is even a great animation movie called Mulan that portrays the gender discrimination, although things are a bit more liberal now.
Additionally, in a situation where there are male and female candidates for a managerial position in for example, Canada or United States then chances are that women and men will be given equal consideration based on their education and experience because that’s the societal norm and the law, obviously keeping in mind the industry. There are certain industries that men do well in and certain industries that women do better in. For example, we have more male engineers than female engineers in Canada(Hango, D. 2013.)
However, if we stick with the example of Middle Eastern countries, we know that it is mostly a very male dominated society and they have a very patriarchal society. The gender norm constraints are strict, and the social and cultural norms highly dictate the do’s and don’t of everyday conduct. They reflect elements of a patriarchal society in which men and women are partners but with different roles.(World Bank. 2013). Men’s role is to be the bread winner in the family and the women are