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by tvh
2855 days ago
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Isn't the problem you're mentioning pervasive across and regardless of genders though? When a woman is networking with a man - akin to a man networking with a woman - the intent of "looking to sleep with" can and most probably will be derived from it in the same way, instinctively. When women are networking between each others, everyone is also clear what the purpose is, professional only, akin to when men are networking between each other. There seems to be many other factors at play behind that "social understanding" for lack of a better term. I suppose one of them being the fact that the """norm""" in relationships being that of an heterosexual one, therefore leading to the unconscious acceptance that same gender people networking together is only professional, whereas two people of different gender might have another layer of intent behind it? The only difference being that there are more men in high seniority position than women, therefore leading to a context where women need to network with men more than the reverse. |
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No; in short, because patriarchy.
> When a woman is networking with a man - akin to a man networking with a woman - the intent of "looking to sleep with" can and most probably will be derived from it in the same way, instinctively.
No, this works quite differently by gender; a man is both less likely to need to seek professional connections with women to advance a career, and less likely to be seen as providing a sexual conquest opportunity each time he does so.
> When women are networking between each others, everyone is also clear what the purpose is, professional only, akin to when men are networking between each other.
I disagree that same gender networking is either actually or in perception purely professional, even when there is no sexual charge (which can be present though it's less likely than in opposite gender networking; not everyone is either heterosexual or keeping an iron wall between sex and professional life), or that the distribution and nature of non-professional ancillary dynamics are the same for one gender as the otherp; men and women are socialized to engage even in same gender social relationships differently (and there may be inherent/biological differences that are correlated with sex/gender that have an effect even aside from differential socialization.)