Nonverbal communication represents two-thirds of all communication between all people. Classified in three basic principles (environmental conditions, physical characteristics, and behaviors of the communicators) nonverbal communication poses an obvious interaction between the sexes that needs to be responsibly addressed for the relative comfort and mutual respect for the parties involved. All communication that conveys intention, disposition, emotion, or interaction, between two individuals that is not expressly verbally conveyed, through the mediums of body language, posture, clothing, distance, physical appearance, cultural gestures, tone and inflection of voice, and eye contact is nonverbal communication. A majority of the population consciously
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Typically male associated types of nonverbal communication include strategic physical contact, deeper, lower voice patterns, and facial expression; while women are more prone to employing tactics such as self-aware accentuation of the arch of the back or legs, relay of eye contact, smoother, higher pitched voice and use of angles and …show more content…
Women demanded their right for employers to make room for them in the workplace, and not just in stereotypical 'women’s work ' fields. For the first time, women were working in factories and in offices. Yet, still today, even though women make up a significant demographic of the work force, problematic behavior such as sexual harassment, discrimination, and even termination still runs rampant. Because nonverbal communication is often employed to prevent outright rejection and embarrassment, most of this harassment goes uninvestigated and unmitigated. The fact is that nonverbal communication affects the recipient on an a number of different levels and can be more influential than verbal communication. With the new rise of fourth wave feminism, more demands for social justice and equality have focused on 'men’s instinctive behavior, ' the apparent drive for obtrusive and invasive contact with women as a means to gain power over them. While buzzwords such as 'rape, ' 'objectification, ' and 'oppression ' are used ad nauseum, the issues they address are both real and unacceptable. Female soldiers are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by the enemy. Most sexual harassment complaints are made by women against men. Popular media has instilled an idea of 'the perfect woman ' and anything that deviates from that ideal is considered less valuable, and is more prone to sexualization and
Typically male associated types of nonverbal communication include strategic physical contact, deeper, lower voice patterns, and facial expression; while women are more prone to employing tactics such as self-aware accentuation of the arch of the back or legs, relay of eye contact, smoother, higher pitched voice and use of angles and …show more content…
Women demanded their right for employers to make room for them in the workplace, and not just in stereotypical 'women’s work ' fields. For the first time, women were working in factories and in offices. Yet, still today, even though women make up a significant demographic of the work force, problematic behavior such as sexual harassment, discrimination, and even termination still runs rampant. Because nonverbal communication is often employed to prevent outright rejection and embarrassment, most of this harassment goes uninvestigated and unmitigated. The fact is that nonverbal communication affects the recipient on an a number of different levels and can be more influential than verbal communication. With the new rise of fourth wave feminism, more demands for social justice and equality have focused on 'men’s instinctive behavior, ' the apparent drive for obtrusive and invasive contact with women as a means to gain power over them. While buzzwords such as 'rape, ' 'objectification, ' and 'oppression ' are used ad nauseum, the issues they address are both real and unacceptable. Female soldiers are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by the enemy. Most sexual harassment complaints are made by women against men. Popular media has instilled an idea of 'the perfect woman ' and anything that deviates from that ideal is considered less valuable, and is more prone to sexualization and