Genders and colours

Innovation in dressing

The relationship between beauty and employment

Are good-looking people more likely to get jobs? That depends whether you’re talking about men or women, according to a new working paper. From the abstract:

"Job applicants in Europe and in Israel increasingly imbed a headshot of themselves in the top corner of their CVs. We sent 5,312 CVs in pairs to 2,656 advertised job openings. In each pair, one CV was without a picture while the second, otherwise almost identical CV contained a picture of either an attractive male/female or a plain-looking male/female.Employer callbacks to attractive men are significantly higher than to men with no picture and to plain-looking men, nearly doubling the latter group. Strikingly, attractive women do not enjoy the same beauty premium. In fact, women with no picture have a significantly higher rate of callbacks than attractive or plain-looking women. We explore a number of explanations and provide evidence that female jealousy of attractive women in the workplace is a primary reason for the punishment of attractive women."

Previous research, however, has found that good-looking female workers receive higher raises than their plain or ugly counterparts.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/are-attractive-people-more-employable/?ref=business

Women are very obedient!

The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.
Charles Sheridan and Richard King hypothesized that some of Milgram's subjects may have suspected that the victim was faking, so they repeated the experiment with a real victim: a puppy who was given real electric shocks. They found that 20 out of the 26 participants complied to the end. The six that had refused to comply were all male (54% of males were obedient); all 13 of the women obeyed to the end, although many were highly disturbed and some openly wept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Cross gender opinions

"When men criticize women, it's called sexism. When women criticize men, it's called feminism"

"When a guy sleeps with many women, he is a stud, while if a woman does the same she is a slut"

How to handle a woman?

"He had just married an old friend of mine, Paulette Goddard, all woman, magnificently distributed, as feminine as she is female. One night when we were having dinner, I said to Erich (not seriously): 'How do you get along with this wild woman?' He replied: 'Beautifully. There is never an argument.' 'Never an argument?' I asked incredulously. 'Never,' he replied. 'We will have an appointment one evening, and she charges into the room crying, 'Why aren't you ready? You always keep me waiting. Why do you ...?!' I look at her with astonishment and say, 'Paulette! Who did your hair? It's absolutely ravishing.' She says, 'Really? Do you really like it?' 'Like it?' I reply. 'You're a vision. Let me see the back.' By the time she has made a pirouette her fury is forgotten. Another time she turns on me in rage about something, and before a sentence is out of her mouth I stare at her and say breathlessly, 'My God! You're incredible. You get younger every day.' She says, 'Really, darling?' 'Tonight,' I say, 'you look eighteen years old.' And that is the end of her rage.' I was as amused as I was admiring and I said to him: 'Erich, one day I will have to write a song about that.' The song was 'How to Handle a Woman' which ends:

The way to handle a woman is to love her,
Simply love her; merely love her,
Love her, love her."

Alan Jay Lerner,  The Street Where I Live, Da Capo Press, 1978, pp. 193-4.

The new Herbivore culture

The new 'girly' men culture of Japan: a new solution?http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article6903043.ece

Women want more!

Consumer behaviour for Marketing for womenkind:
http://www.businesspundit.com/women-want-more-a-book-review/

Shopping alone

http://www.businesspundit.com/why-one-wife-now-chooses-to-shop-alone/

Guide to hiring women

A very interesting article. Tells you about the psychology and characteristics of woman kind in workplace. Also gives tips on managing women at the work place.

A read for every manager who deals with women, I guess.

http://www.feministing.com/archives/017848.html

Many of a kind

Many of what kind?

The kind that are not males or females.

There are so many of this kind in this world and I feel bad that no society recognises them. I have never seen a form where there are three boxes for sex/gender - male, female and other.

Despite all the claims of proudness of all our civilisations, this discrimination against recognising millions of people is a shame on our civilisation.

For more details about the number of people and all the science behind this, read along:

As many as 4 per cent of people are born with neither a clear male nor clear female identity, according to the Gender Trust. Most may be unaware that they are classified as "intersex" and suffer no discomfort or distress as a result.However, some babies are born with ambiguous genitals which leave their sex unclear. They may resemble those of a female with a large clitoris and the labia fused together, or they may look like those of a male with a small penis and an empty scrotum. Surgery may be carried out so the baby can be assigned as either male or female.

Others are born with genetic abnormalities. The sex of a baby is established in the womb according to whether they have an XX chromosome pair (female) or XY (male). The commonest gender disorders are chromosomal abnormalities such as Turner's syndrome (X0, where the second X chromosome is missing), which affects one in 10,000 girls, and Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY or XXXY) affecting one in 1,000 boys.

Girls with Turner's syndrome mostly have normal genitals but the ovaries do not develop and they remain infertile. Boys with Klinefelter's syndrome may have small testes or produce low amounts of testosterone and can develop breasts. They may also have signs of a womb and ovaries.

People with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, or AIS (one in 20,000 births) – as described by Janet – are genetically male (with the XY chromosome) but due to a failure to respond to testosterone do not develop male genitals and at birth appear female. They are thus usually raised as girls. They can develop breasts at puberty, but the vagina is small or absent, and they do not menstruate. Some AIS women have had modelling careers because their lack of male hormones means they are unlikely to develop body hair and are less prone to skin conditions like acne. But society is often unkind to people with such disorders.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/i-was-treated-like-a-circus-sideshow-1786139.html

Girls versus guys

At least in the Indian context, people say that most girls are more mature than the guys their age. And as I learn my lessons of life in life, I would agree. I think the main reason for this is this: In the Indian society, there are a lot of restrictions on what girls can do and can't do compared to guys. Some of them are based on ridiculous superstitions. Some based on perception of females in the society and some based on the girl's own security. All this makes the girls accept life's harsh decisions whether they like it or not. They become more tolerable to unfavourable results. But guys don't get to face so many unfavourable results. They face a few unfavourable ones and largely favourable results. This makes them want to fight always. But, given life's routes, no one can actually fight it. They can only accept the harsh realities of life or remain in denial mode for the rest of their lives. Only by accepting the life's unfairness and moving on, will a person be mature.