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Our culture still seems bizarrely attached to the idea that men and women are in some way different. Women are still encouraged by mass media and private cultures to be homemakers. Heck, most of the reason the College of Consumer and Family Sciences has seen an increase in male enrollment is because they’ve been putting a focus on expanding aspects of their program like the outside world-focused hospitality and tourism management program.
Despite a few quirks of biology, men and women are really the same people, separated only by some organs (which are usually covered up anyway) and a wall of prejudice.
No no no!! This excerpt from the Purdue Exponent epitomizes the challenge of men and women working together successfully. We are not the same people, not be any stretch of the imagination. Every single physiological system in the body differs in men and women…every single one. The medical community is just now, finally, realizing that women cannot be treated identically to men and get the same results.
Within the past year a team of scientists determined that genetic markers prove this disparity. Read this carefully – Genetically, there are more differences between men and women than there are between humans and chimpanzees. The human genders are more different than each other than we are from monkeys! And we wonder why we have conflict and confusion while communicating?!
That’s why we need help! Men and women need to understand our different styles and needs in order to be most productive working together in teams, managing each other, leading each other, and forming successful partnerships…whether professional or personal.
And that’s why I chose this topic to immerse myself in and develop as my area of expertise. I find it not only fascinating and fulfilling, but timely and absolutely essential in order to help maximize business productivity and profits. Check out my website at http://www.janesanders.com/ to see what I offer to help businesses, associations, and individuals learn more about the communication differences between men and women and how to work them more successfully.
