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Career Planning: A Gender Perspective: Dr. Sunita Chugh

This document discusses career planning from a gender perspective. It argues that traditional views of career stages being linear and focused on hierarchical progression are masculine-oriented. A modern perspective sees more fluid career patterns focused on leadership early in one's career, gaining multiple experiences, and emphasizing employability over loyalty. It also suggests that motivation and views of power differ between masculine and feminine orientations, with femininity valuing work-life balance, intrinsic rewards, and power through choice and sharing over authority. The document questions if the traditional definition of career needs to incorporate more feminine values to reflect changing views.

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Career Planning: A Gender Perspective: Dr. Sunita Chugh

This document discusses career planning from a gender perspective. It argues that traditional views of career stages being linear and focused on hierarchical progression are masculine-oriented. A modern perspective sees more fluid career patterns focused on leadership early in one's career, gaining multiple experiences, and emphasizing employability over loyalty. It also suggests that motivation and views of power differ between masculine and feminine orientations, with femininity valuing work-life balance, intrinsic rewards, and power through choice and sharing over authority. The document questions if the traditional definition of career needs to incorporate more feminine values to reflect changing views.

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Career Planning :

A Gender Perspective

Dr. Sunita Chugh


26th November, 2010
Gender = Masculinity & Femininity

NOT

Gender = Men & Women


A few questions for you:
Can you PROJECT yourself well in your resume?

Can you LEAD the interviewer to the direction of your

choice?
Can you COMMAND your salary during salary

negotiation?
Are you able to NEGOTIATE job transfers and

interesting job postings?


Machiavellianism
Machiavellianism (Mach) refers to the degree
o to which an individual is practical in his approach,

o maintains an emotional distance from others, and

o believes that ends justify the means.

 Machiavellianism is a key ingredient to planning your

career.
Machiavellianism
Research reveals that individuals who are high on MACH :

Are good at manipulating others ;try to win by any means.

Do not need to be persuaded to work ; instead are able to


successfully persuade others.

Are especially productive in jobs that require the use of


bargaining (persuasion) skills .

Are successful in jobs that offer substantial rewards for the


achievement of goals.
In general,
Machiavellianism is perceived to be
a masculine trait.
Career: Traditional Perspective
 Career stages are typically defined as evolutionary phases of working life.

 Early theorists assumed career stages to be linear and stable.

 Current researchers (e.g., Hall and Schein) have updated the concept of

career stage to encompass modern, varied patterns of career development.

 These patterns tend to be more fluid and dynamic.


Career : Modern Perspective
Leadership perspective CEO’s at 25
Multiple Employment Gainfully employed. Gain does
not translate into salary alone.

Talent perspective Employability & Market value –


not loyalty/stability /insecurity

Entrepreneurial zeal Own boss


In general,
Masculinity allows you to make it
to leadership positions.
Career Motivation
Need for affiliation, achievement, power and self-
actualisation for both genders are, in general, are met in
different ways.

Whilst masculinity is about a hierarchical progress to


the top .

There is a continuing tendency for femininity to search


for more than monetary reward-intrinsic significance,
social importance, meaning in what they do.
Motivation
 Femininity does not see progression to a more senior management

position as a career goal.

 Self-actualized aspirations may include more femininity ; that of

seeking a more balanced life, finding enjoyment in several areas.

 Femininity is more likely to make you abandon or choose and not

to compete for lucrative executive positions in order to do something

that you ‘really love’.


Power
Femininity in Power , expresses itself primarily in

choice, rather than in the exercise of particular authority


in the workplace.

Whilst masculinity prefers ‘power over’ ; femininity

tends towards power sharing , subscribing to ‘power to’ .


Career Ladder v/s Career Tree
It is common for the some of us to re-evaluate our lives and make
changes in priorities at several stages of our careers.

o Work is not the only source of life satisfaction


o Coming to terms with what you ‘care about’.
o Lateral career moves rather than upward ones,
o Starting your own business,
o Spending more time with family,
o Taking up a new hobby,
o Becoming involved in community work,
o Choosing a less demanding job.
o Needing more balance .
o Psychologically in contact with your own needs
Conjecture…….
Since the traditional definition of career is largely masculine

And, femininity powers and motivates you differently.

Even men in this generation – called metro sexual male


seem to endorse this need for femininity in the definition
of career.

Is it time for the ‘Ardhnareshwar’of Career Concept?

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