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CMC Senior Theses
CMC Student Scholarship
2012
How Men And Women Differ: Gender Differences in Communication Styles, Influence Tactics, and
Leadership Styles
Karima Merchant
Claremont McKenna College
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Merchant, Karima, "How Men And Women Differ: Gender Differences in Communication Styles, Influence Tactics, and Leadership
Styles" (2012). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 513. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/513 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact scholarship@cuc.claremont.edu.
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HOW MEN AND WOMEN DIFFER:
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Figure 1: Labor Force Participation by Sex in the U.S. 1970 - 2010
All of these victories mentioned gave women confidence and ground to be influential individuals and gain independence to break from the mold of the nuclear family to pursue their own personal goals and desires. The second wave of feminism ended in the 1980s with the feminist sex wars, which was followed by the third wave of the feminist movement. Additional victories of the second wave of feminism were the
Equal Pay Act of 1963, the foundation of the National Organization for Women by Betty
Friedan in 1966, the Women’s Educational Equality Act in 1974, the Pregnancy
Discrimination Act in 1978, and the illegalization of marital rape. All of these victories of the second wave of the feminist movement were coupled with an increase of women in the workplace and a distinct societal change in attitudes towards women.
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Women Liberation Movement – Third Wave
The third and final wave of the women’s liberation movement started in the