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• Communication


  Process of exchanging ideas and information through words or actions
• Verbal communication


  • Related to words
• Non-verbal communication


  • Related to actions and gestures
• Gender


  Socially constructed definition of women and men
• John Gray's book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"


  Popularized the theory of communication differences based on gender
• Rationality: All humans are emotional
• Women tend to cry when flooded with emotion, while men tend to become angry and violent
• Biologically, men are physically stronger
• Women's brain


  • White brain - more networking between processing centers
• Men's brain


  • Gray brain - more information processing centers
• Female communication style


  • Complex, literate, socio-intellectual, aesthetic value, detailed, more questions, facilitate conversation
• Male communication style


  • Argumentative, aggressive, forceful, blunt, intense language, control, individualism
• Genderlect


  The way that the conversation of men and women are not right and wrong, they are just different
• Goals of Genderlect


  • Mutual respect and understanding
  • Contrast feminism
  • Identify differences
• Culture


  Socially transmitted behaviors, arts, languages or others, learnt and shared in particular social group, handed down from one generation to another
• Cultural differences can cause behavior and personality problems in normal communicating environment
• Cultural norms exist in the workplace due to the variety of people working together
• Gender-fair language


  Language that articulates consciousness and reflects culture, affects socialization
• Gender-based discrimination (GBD)


  Distinction, exclusion or restriction based on sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation that prevents equal exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms
• Elements of GBD


  • Action: distinguishes, excludes or restricts a person
  • Basis: sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation
  • Purpose or effect: prevents equal exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms
• Sexism in language


  Use of language that devalues members of a sex or gender, and thus fosters gender inequality
• Kinds of sexist language


  • Language which excludes members of one sex or gender or renders them invisible
  • Language that trivializes women, diminishes their stature
  • Language that disparages and marginalizes women
  • Language that fosters unequal gender relations
  • Gender polarization of meanings in the use of adjectives
  • Lexical gap - absence or lack of words referring to women's experiences
  • Hidden assumptions
• Gender roles are not inborn, they are learned through the process of socialization
• Social institutions that contribute to gender socialization


  • Family
  • Mass media
  • School
  • Workplace
  • Peer group
  • Religion
  • The state
• Communication


  Process of exchanging ideas and information through words or actions
• Verbal communication


  • Related to words
• Non-verbal communication


  • Related to actions and gestures
• Gender


  Socially constructed definition of women and men
• John Gray


  Author of the famous book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" which sold over 15 million copies worldwide
• Rationality: All humans are emotional
• Women tend to cry when flooded with emotion, while men tend to become angry and violent
• Biologically, men are physically stronger
• Women's brain


  • White brain - more networking between processing centers
• Men's brain


  • Gray brain - more information processing centers
• Female communication style


  • Complex, literate, socio-intellectual, aesthetic value, detailed, more questions, facilitate conversation
• Male communication style


  • Argumentative, aggressive, forceful, blunt, intense language, control, individualism
• Genderlect


  The way that the conversation of men and women are not right and wrong, they are just different
• Genderlect theory was written by Deborah Frances Tannen, an American Professor
• Differences between women and men in communication

  • Connection and status
  • Emotion and rapport
  • Private and public
  • Conflict
• The goals of Genderlect are mutual respect and understanding, and to identify differences (not to be contrasted with feminism)