Gender Issues in Management

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Gender Issues in Management Internet Professor
M Louise Ripley

• AP/ADMS/WMST 3120 3.0M

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This is an Internet course taught entirely
online
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Administrative Details

• 1. You Must
• Be registered
• Know how to write an essay for the test
• Participate in the online Discussion Group
• Work on the Team Final Exam Substitute Project -
  electronically
• 2. Read the online course syllabus
• See Moodle for this course for the Course Outline
  link

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Administrative Details

• 3. Course Kit and Readings are Online
• 4. Purchase Sheryl Sandbergs Lean In in the
  bookstore or from Amazon
• 5. The course is women-centered
• 6. Evaluation
• Individual Assignment re Discussion Group
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• Individual Open-Book Essay Test on all
  materials 40
• Final Exam Substitute Group Project
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Some Points About Writing Well1. Write
simply, not like Calvin -
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2. Remember this trio
Tell me what youre going to tell me
Tell it to me
Tell me what you told me
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epistemological showdown I
statements
3. dian marino
Read about these important elements in an essay
in the course syllabus
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4. Keep your Writing tight and concise

• Dont say, Our group decided to choose the topic
  of sexual harassment because all of us feel it is
  a common regular occurrence in business and one
  that is is frequently a problem for women in
  management level jobs.
• Say instead, Sexual harassment is a common
  problem for women in management.

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• 5. Use terms and theory from Online course
  readings Book Lean In Moodle discussions
• 6. Make specific reference to gender and
  management
• its what the course is all about

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The Waving HAND EXERCISES -- basis for the
discussion group
All course instructionsincluding these are also
in the Course Syllabus
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The Waving HAND EXERCISES -- basis for the
discussion group
1. Go to Course Syllabus, Learning Unit 1 2.
Click on Early Women in Business and read it 3.
Find the first Waving Hand dian marino 4.
Read it along with the two links about writing 5.
Think about your answer 6. Click on Moodle link
and log in 7. Go to Moodle site for this
course 8. Find Socialization heading
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The Waving HAND EXERCISES -- basis for the
discussion group

• 9. Find Early Women in Business Topic
• 10. Write your response
• No one else has posted? Click on Add a
  new discussion topic label it Early Women in
  Business
• Someones already posted? Post yours as
  response
• 11. Decide whether to send now or have it wait
• 12. Post your answer

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The Waving HAND EXERCISES -- basis for the
discussion group

• Find out about the Waving Hand Exercises in the
  Course Syllabus. There are no deadlines or
  post-before dates for these. Try to do them all
  before the end of the course for the best
  learning opportunities.

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The final exam substitute group project

• Substitute for FINAL EXAM, not for TEST
• Based on Online Readings and Book
• Ten groups, each assigned a chapter of 2-11 of
  Lean In
• after last day to enrol without permission of
  professor (Everyone reads studies and uses
  Intro and Chapter 1)
• 4-page Group Essay on your chapter and its
  relation to the course
• Each member, 2 pages about their own learning and
  I stmts
• FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS ARE ONLINE, LINKED FROM
  SYLLABUS

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TOPICS AND SUB-TOPICS IN THE COURSE

• A. Socialization
• Early Women in Business
• Feminism
• Language
• The Media
• Sports
• The Military

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Socialization Early Women in Business
Read in Unit 1 about a woman in 1207 who owned
her own brewery
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Socialization Feminism

• Louises Definition of Feminism
• A belief that womens ways of knowing and doing
  are just as valuable as mens and that women are
  to be valued just as highly as men

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Socialization Language

• Thats an excellent suggestion, Miss Smith.
• Perhaps one of the men would like to make it

From a Punch cartoon
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Socialization the media
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Socialization - sports
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Socialization the military

• Tell it to the Marines

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TOPICS AND SUB-TOPICS IN THE COURSE

• B. Power
• Types of Power
• Anger
• Sexual Harassment
• Affirmative Action
• Assertiveness

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Power types of power

• Legitimate (by contract)  
• Coercive (by force)
• Reward (by giving something for doing it)
• Expert (by having more experience)
• Referent (noting an interest both share)
• Information (because you know things)

And others
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Power anger Choose Your Hill to Die On
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Power sexual harassment
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Sexual Harassment

• Remember this above all else
• Sexual HarassmentIts not about Sex Its about
  Power

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Power affirmative action

• Affirmative Action, with two

EQUALLY QUALIFIED
candidates, choose a member of one of 4 groups
Women Minorities People with Disabilities Aborigin
al People
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Power - assertiveness

• In a downtown Toronto office, the boss, Mr. Hugo,
  asks his assistant,

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Power - assertiveness

• "On your lunch hour today, would you please
  return this watch? I bought it for my spouse's
  birthday but its not right. And get back early,
  please Campbell is coming at 200 to go over his
  account, and I have some calculations that have
  to be done first." 

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• You are his assistant and you have a lunch date
  with an old friend who will only be in town
  today. Think about your answer to Mr. Hugo acting
  as the following three women

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Power - assertiveness

• What will Doris Doormat say?

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Power - assertiveness

• What will Agatha Aggressive say?

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Power - assertiveness

• What will April Assertive say?

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TOPICS AND SUB-TOPICS IN THE COURSE

• C. Discrimination
• Stereotypes
• Diversity
• Pay Equity
• The Glass Ceiling
• Networking
• Mentoring
• All submissions will cover BALANCE

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Discrimination Stereotypesmy student Darlene
Bellefeuille produced this pamphlet for the final
project
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Discrimination diversityRead in the course
materials about former student Sandi Warren and
her views on diversity
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Discrimination - Pay equityLouises story

• 866.67
• 575.00
• ___________
• 50 LESS/month
• TRUE STORY

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Discrimination the glass ceiling

• Yes, its still there

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How do we fight all these battles?
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Discrimination networking/mentoring/Leadership

• NetworkingMentoring Leadership

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balance

• We will consider this issue throughout the course
• Each group will address it at least briefly in
  the
• Final Exam Substitute Project

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Your professor
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Professional information

• M Louise Ripley
• B.A. Shimer College Four Years Undergraduate
• M.B.A. Loyola University of Chicago Five
  Years
• Ph.D. University of Toronto Eight Years
• Tenured Full Professor
• Cross-appointed to Business and Womens
  Studies
• At York for more than 30 years

MBA and PhD while working full time
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Teaching

• Gender Issues in Management (Hybrid and
  Internet)
• Introductory Marketing (Internet)
• Consumer Behaviour
• Taught and Supervised Masters students in
  Environmental Studies , Education, and
  Interdisciplinary Studies
• Supervised a doctoral student at Trent University

Receiving award for my online teaching materials
I also have taught at York Marketing Channels,
Marketing for Competitive Advantage, Contemporary
Issues in Marketing, Marketing Research, Social
Marketing, Philosophical and Ethical Issues in
the Mass Media, Introductory Finance, Financial
Management
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My teaching philosophy

• Students are my top priority
• Education ought to be enjoyable and humour is
  crucial
• Theory and Practice are equally important
• I dont know all there is to know if I dont
  know, Ill ask you
• There is no such thing as a stupid question
• What you get out of any course depends on what
  you put into it
• Students earn the grades I record them
  (i.e.Dont ask for 2 marks)
• Ethics and a respect for Diversity are crucial in
  business and must govern any examination of
  gender issues

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Research I look at ethics in advertising
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Personal information

• HouseHusband, retired
• 29-year old sonJourneyman Carpenter Foreman
• Two step sons, wives, 4 grandchildren

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Heres a picture of our son Erik at work at the
Trump Tower
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Personal information

• 2 cats
• 2 dogs a greyhound and a pug

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My philosophies of life

• From Zen No job is ever menial if it needs to
  bedone and you do it well,
• No experience is ever wasted,
• Live in the present its all well ever get,
  and
• Whatever befalls you, act as if you chose it.
• From the Military Choose your hill to die on
• My number-one life-long philosophy
• Some you win, some you lose, some get rained out,
  but you suit up for every game.

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Last Slide The kind of test I wont give

• How long did the Hundred Years War last?
• Which country makes Panama hats?
• From which animal do we get catgut?
• In which month do Russians celebrate the October
  Revolution?
• What is a camels hair brush made of?
• The Canary Islands are named after what animal?
• What was King George the Sixths first name?
• What colour is a purple finch?
• Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

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answers

• How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116
  years
• Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador
• From which animal do we get catgut? Sheep
• In which month do Russians celebrate the October
  Revolution? November
• What is a camels hair brush made of? Squirrel
  fur
• The Canary Islands are named after what animal?
  Dog
• What was King George the Sixths first name?
  Albert
• What colour is a purple finch? Crimson
• Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand

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I hope you enjoy the course as much as I enjoy
teaching it!