Gender and Conformity

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This paper discusses the relationship between gender and conformity. It explores those norms that individuals are being directed to acquiesce to and looks at how the level of compliance varies within gender roles. It also investigates how this conformity to roles leads to an subsequently interrelated tendency towards stereotyping for both genders in the workplace as well as in society at large.

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"Here we observe the creation of a self-fulfilling social and marketplace prophecy for men and women. They appear to be based partly on societal constraints that individuals conform to regarding their gender and partly on some biological and evolutionary inheritance that is innate within the different sexes. While some studies have fond that women conform more easily than men, other studies have found that this can very within the situational context. In a sense we can see as regards conformity and gender that what men and women really do is vary in the type of interdependence they require from each given situation. Men often seem more concerned about their relationship with the larger group while women often seem to worry more about close friends and familial relationships. This can certainly set the course for conformity as related to gender and create some broad strokes of findings as far as the research states, but looking at things on an individual basis certainly there is a wide variance of conformity and non-conformity on a individual case by case level."

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