Gender Differences In Malls

During this project I observed three different locations, one is the Tanger mall, Barnes and Nobles, and Walmart. As I observed this location I saw that there are some similarities with all three, and yet at the same time the location effects the way the different genders interact by themselves or with other people. Since I really don’t spend that much time in the mall I personally think that my observation in the mall was the most interesting one. I notice that when different genders the females tend to hang out more in groups, whether it be with their family, or friends they are not alone. But with the males they tend to actually go to the mall by themselves, or with their family, it was very rare for me to actually see them in groups and …show more content…
While walking around I found that there are lot more females in the store, both in customers and employees. I also found out that compare to the mall the women in Barnes and Nobles didn’t really hang out in groups, but instead most of them were by themselves. Another thing that I notice is that when men go to the bookstore they really don’t look at the books, and they automatically go to the movies section of the store. Another difference between the mall and the bookstore is the age between the attendee, with the mall it was a lot younger crowd, like young adult and teenagers, while in the bookstore it was mostly older group of people or much younger crowd for example around 12 years old with their parents. When I sat down to observe people in Starbucks, the interactions between gender is completely different in the mall. In the mall I notice that males and females tend to hang out with their same gender, or with their family, but it was not like that in the bookstore. Maybe it was because most of the people I notice that was sitting in Starbucks are mostly college students, but they were more open to the idea of a group mix of both males and females and create a study group. Compare to the mall, the people who are sitting down in Starbucks, especially the college students are less conscious about the idea of talking to the opposite sex, maybe it has something to do that they are in a small public space that they have a sense of security of talking to strangers, or maybe because they tend to sit much closer to each other compare to the food court in malls, but they are at more ease in talking to a complete stranger. But one thing that the mall and the bookstore/coffee place have in common is that the group of women talking to each other. Just like the mall the group of women usually had a group of 3 or 4, and just like the mall they tend to talk about