Masculinity Vs Gender

In this survey many people decided to choose to say equal for many of the results. Many felt that it would be like discriminating against a gender by choosing one trait that signified it is in a male more than a female because they saw both traits in both men and female leaders. Out of the 11 traits eight stood out from the small 22 person sample. The traits that were associated with male traits were confident, motivational charismatic, ambitious and effective public speaker. The traits associated more with a female traits were Responsible and Ethical. Traits that were associated with both female and masculinity was Respectful, Intelligent, and Trustworthy. Out of all the results Confidence which was selected to be a male trait had the most …show more content…
This probably has to do with the fact that there are many more dominant figures that are males and they are confident in what they do. A trend I saw in this was men choose different traits other than just being equal way more than females. For example in the final trait public effective speaker seven males said it was a masculine trait while one said it was a female trait, while one female said it was seen more as a masculine trait. There is a major difference percentage wise as only 25% of females choose something different while for men it was 44%. This has to do with the fact that there was more males in the survey, but the males choices show that some of them still see differences in which traits are seen as a masculine or …show more content…
Just by a quick Glance females choose equal for many of the traits. Out of the 10 Leadership traits 100% of Females choose equal for 7 traits while for the other 3 75% of females choose equal and 25% choose masculine or feminine. For Males it was different there was more of a variation and they choose traits that were masculine and feminine but every time more than 10 males choose that the traits were equal for males and females. If you take the average than 11.9 or 66% of males choose that both traits were equal. I think using my overall knowledge about things is that one main reason that the majority of people who took the survey choose majority equal since they have grown up with different values in life. The values and ideals people grow up with have significantly changed over the years which leads to this dramatic change. For example during the 1960’s males were the dominant figures, and many females stayed at home and were housewife’s. If you gave the survey to people in the 1960’s they would rarely acknowledge the fact that there was female leaders and most likely choose masculine for every trait and rarely equal which is the opposite of what we see today. During the 2000’s there is more stride for equality for Women in the work force. By instilling