Masculinity versus femininity
This dimension doesn’t correlate directly with gender roles or behaviours. Instead this is more orientated towards specific traits that Hofstede has defined as masculine and low masculine (femininity). A high masculine culture is characterized by focusing on money, possessions, and traditional family values. Feminine cultures are said to be relationship oriented, focused on quality of life, and failing is generally more accepted. This is best describe by the commonly used phrase “Americans live to work, while Europeans work to live. Indian culture is considered to be moderately masculine with a score of 56. This can be seen by the importance of higher earnings and recognition at work is within Indian culture. The
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In Feminine culture, the society is more worry about relationships, encouragement and better quality of life. At business level negotiation, for Femininity society, the relationship and quality of good or service matter the most than the price.
At Corporate level negotiation if a corporate is from INDIA or United State which possess Masculinity culture and other from Vietnam which is a Femininity culture it is necessary to understand the culture to get better deal. As already discussed, dealing with Feminine culture soft bargaining negotiation could be more impactful compare to hard bargaining negotiation. Whereas, when the parties are from India and USA, hard bargaining and principled bargaining could be used.
However, it can be seen that the higher a country scores in Masculinity the higher is the gender gap in the society. For instance, In China and India this gender gap be easily seen. In these societies Men are more dominant. One can criticise the Hofstede research findings about the Masculinity and Femininity dimension as “the MAS scores are mainly based on men’s answers” (Hofstede G. , 1984). Hofstede analysis of culture considering the gender would give a different
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In the meantime, the United States has a relatively low score of 26; this indicates that Americans are very practical and generally less willing to accept present losses in exchange for benefit in the distant future (Hamilton & Webster, The International Business Environment, 3rd edition, 2015, p. 171). They also value punctuality since they keep appointment calendars and “live accordingly to schedules and clocks.” (Robbins & Coulter, Management, 10th edition, 2009, p.97). Surprisingly in this section, India scores 51, so we cannot determine whether India culture is long-term or short-term oriented. Professor Hofstede explained that the concept of “karma” dominates religious and philosophical thought so time is not as important as it is in the West. Take into account these differences between countries; you can expect that doing business and negotiation in Asia will take much longer than in the USA because Asian people tend to build a relationship first while Americans seek instant gratification and quick result (Roberts, The American Scholar, 2014). Scores of Vietnam was marked with an asterisk (*) which states that the research is not officially from Greert Hofstede but have been added through other research
Society teaches male to aspire whereas the female counterpart is confined and limited. Women are taught to do household chores whereas men are free to explore the outside
In both cultures, the men work to provide for the family, whereas the women care for the children at home. For example, in The House on Mango Street, Esperanza’s father works while her mom cares for Esperanza and her siblings. In addition, men enjoy privileges that are denied by females in both cultures. For example, education is an area where men and women are not treated equally. In my own family in India, the men are highly educated, whereas the women do not receive as much education.
The economic system is related to the social organizations, which also influences the ideas and values of the culture. This idea continues through the culture as a whole and the roles of male and females alike. Brumfiel also highlights power relations in the culture, suggesting that one group could end up being more prevailing than the other. Brumfiel understands and shows the reader that gender is not a perception in isolation. All parts of any culture are unified and inclined by each other.
The Impact of Culture and Gender Roles Heather Richardson-Barker Drexel University Society has clearly defined boundaries between what is considered to be male or female. The development of an individual’s gender role is formed by interactions with those in close proximity. Society constantly tells us how we should look, act and live based on gender, as well as the influence of family, friends and the media have a tremendous impact on how these roles are formed and the expected behavior of each gender role. The term Gender, as defined by the United Nations, includes the psychological, social, cultural, and behavioral characteristics associated with being female or male. It further defines acceptable
Individualism versus Collectivism: This element of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions describes if the primary function of a person in a society is more being an individual or part of the group of a society. In individualistic societies people follow their own interest very strictly and are relatively loose on societal morals. Competition in these societies is normal, the ideology exists that people who compete the best are rewarded financially. Examples for strong individual societies are: Canada, Australia and the United States.
From what we have learned in class about the 1950’s, it is clear to say that this period stands out for being the dawning of a greater desire for masculinity for men as the war time had produced a change in gender dynamics due to the unavailability of men to do jobs that were then given to women. Hence, upon their return, men, began to produce these feelings of masculinity because of the changes that had been put in place along with the hardship of returning to regular life during the postwar time. This also made them develop a desire to define their role in the modern family, which lead them to begin marrying women. These ideas lead into the gender roles set up by society and its citizens during this time. Moreover, from these ideas we obtained
It is the same for males and females. Sometimes, we are lost in stereotypes when we concern masculinity and felinity. Women are not as strong as men; women should be submissive and obey their husbands; men should be tough and never cry; men are always the center and top. But as we known, there are women who are more capable than men, and there are men are emotional and cry. Who defines "masculinity" and "feminity"?
The theory of Hofstede says that the framework of cross cultural communication it’s described the effects on the culture of the society on the values of its members. Culture has been unclear in a many ways, Hofstede also says that culture as collective programming of the mind it is distinguished group or category of people from another. Also, he explains culture as the software of the mind and he identifies 3 aspects of human mental: human nature, personality and culture. Trompenaas definition is a model of differences in national cultures that model, it’s included 7 areas that are used to identify how people from different nations and cultures are interrupted with each others.
Besides, the different education background and social values in Alphan and Betan nations constituted the different characteristics between people in each team. For these reasons, I think if we had been provided more information about the counterparty’s cultural characteristics, we could have prepared a better negotiation plan and applied different negotiation style which might have improved the negotiation outcomes or at
Most men don’t even pursue their life’s dreams and/or goals because it’s considered to be a “feminine pursuit”. Such as the fields of Ballet, theatre, etc. That is the extent to which the lives of men are hampered that you may live your entire life in a shell, a shell of fear about the culture, a shell of bottled emotions and regret. The definition of true masculinity should be to lay in your own skin comfortably and be who you are as a person, and not what
Now I realized that in order to participate in and study intercultural communication requires us taking consideration of differences in understanding, values and attitudes that people with different culture background. These three factors can decide how to communicate and how to react and interpret messages that you have received. According to ( ), females are more strict with their work in most of culture in the world, they are more likely to
For example, consumers are becoming more similar in terms of lifestyles, income, aspirations and education. In order to clarify my statement, I would like to apply Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture. Masculinity and femininity is one of the Hofstede’s dimensions. The dominant values of masculine culture are achievement and success while dominant values in feminine cultures are caring for quality of life and others. The country that possesses the most masculine culture is Japan, which scores 95 (Geert and Mariake de, 2002).
Masculinity refers to the qualities, personality traits and roles that are associated with the male gender. In the 21st century, there has been a movement, a drive in the more socially aware sections of the world to equalize or balance out masculinity and femininity. Feminism or, at least the main stream feminism aims to find equality for the females in social, political and economical fields. Even today, as we work forward to find a middle ground for the two genders, masculinity is seen as the superior quality that only men are privileged to have. Hence, main stream feminism is so focused on emancipating women by encouraging them to let go of the ‘weaker’ feminine qualities and roles and fit themselves in a Man’s world by embracing masculinity
Criticism: Lazonick (1993) took up the challenge with porter regarding the issues of rivalry, issues regarding rivalry alone cannot pressure firm to produce more innovative products. When a firms faces too many issues from their competitors, they may rather choose to imitate their competitors’ products than innovate products at their own risk. When foreign competitors come up to take challenges with firms, firms would rather choose to be cooperative the business with their current competitors to prevent decline of products. Porter’s diamond framework concept most of the time focuses on the home based market due to competitiveness of a national business system is usually derive from their home based market (Porter, 1990). Single diamond framework
The social stigma that women are housekeepers and should be confined to the four walls of the house is perhaps a viable cause of gender disparity. They should not raise their voice regarding their fortune for the sake of the prestige of the family. In patriarchal society a lot of weightage is given to men.” The root cause of gender inequality in Indian society lies in its patriarchy system.