Bell & Smith (2016), in their book Managerial Communication, the communication pattern of women, verbal or non-verbal, both is found to be different from adult males which often precedes them to leadership disadvantage, promotions and recognitions. Men and women express gender communication differences in substance, style, and social organization. When men meet with one another, they talk some sports, money, and business; on the other hand women are more into discussing about people, beliefs, and relationships. The way men and women use the words has a vast difference. For instance, men use precise words to the point and without descriptive details; whereas, women are more detailed, apologetic, and vague.
According to Goman (2016), the communicative strength of women is able to interpret the nonverbal cues, good listeners and empathetic whereas the males are commanding, direct and effective in power display. The same article takes the communication weakness of man and woman to be dull, insensitive and too adamant of male and overly emotional, meandering and not authoritative of woman.There is a significant difference in how men and women communicate. For instance; Men often show themselves to define a problem, converse for competition, and talk to solve problems; whereas, women most often show themselves to understand, converse to support, and talk to connect.
To sum up, men and women can learn so much from each other if only the gender communication barriers can be broken. So far, the difference in gender communication would help with efficient communication and more proficient means to understand each other’s respecting each other’s belief and emotions.
References
Bell, A. H., & Smith, D. M. (2014). Management Communication (3rd e.d.). New Delhi: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Bell & Smith (2016), in their book Managerial Communication, the communication pattern of women, verbal or non-verbal, both is found to be different from adult males which often precedes them to leadership disadvantage, promotions and recognitions. Men and women express gender communication differences in substance, style, and social organization. When men meet with one another, they talk some sports, money, and business; on the other hand women are more into discussing about people, beliefs, and relationships. The way men and women use the words has a vast difference. For instance, men use precise words to the point and without descriptive details; whereas, women are more detailed, apologetic, and vague.
According to Goman (2016), the communicative strength of women is able to interpret the nonverbal cues, good listeners and empathetic whereas the males are commanding, direct and effective in power display. The same article takes the communication weakness of man and woman to be dull, insensitive and too adamant of male and overly emotional, meandering and not authoritative of woman.There is a significant difference in how men and women communicate. For instance; Men often show themselves to define a problem, converse for competition, and talk to solve problems; whereas, women most often show themselves to understand, converse to support, and talk to connect.
To sum up, men and women can learn so much from each other if only the gender communication barriers can be broken. So far, the difference in gender communication would help with efficient communication and more proficient means to understand each other’s respecting each other’s belief and emotions.
References
Bell, A. H., & Smith, D. M. (2014). Management Communication (3rd e.d.). New Delhi: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Goman, K. C. (2016). Is Your Communication Style Dictated By Your Gender?. In forbes. Retrieved from forbes.com/sites/carolkinseygoman/...