10 minutes with...Geert Hofstede on Masculinity versus Femininity 10112014

masculine and feminine are not the same as masculine and feminine are the Latin words used for men like and women like for example a man can be called feminine and a woman can be called masculine in anthropology since around the 1930s there have been studies of the variety of role divisions between genders in different societies and the very important role played by the young American anthropologist Margaret Mead it is interesting that of the sixth dimension this is the only one where it matters whether the information comes from women or men in the other dimensions, whether you collect your data from women or men, you get the same position from the dimensions, and the definition of

masculinity

is a society in which emotional gender roles are distinct.

I'm not talking about social generals because they have a lot to do with the wealth of the country but I'm talking about the emotional role what you should feel when you are born a boy or a girl and the boy must be assertive and tough and focused on material success and women should focus in the quality of life I call a female society if this role separation does not exist or is at least weaker so that especially men are also sometimes supposed to be modest and tender and focused on the quality of life now. mopposing female societies to male societies most societies fall somewhere in the middle in female societies people try to balance family and work in male society work clearly takes precedence over family and work is a acceptable excuse for neglecting family and family is of course not an accepted excuse for neglecting your work within the family in male society the father has to deal with the facts and the mother has to deal with the feelings and if the children are hurt must go to mom in family societies both father and mother must deal with facts and feelings so you can go to mom for the facts and you can go to dad if you are hurt masculine societies admire strong feminine societies they are jealous of high flyers and especially in the nordic countries denmark sweden norway they have a word for this kiln from yentl which means the law of ent a yenta is the name of a tab from a novel that describes how small town people she was so jealous of someone who came in who is the author of the novel in masculine societies people this day of the week at fair any society feel sympathy for the weak in masculine societies girls cry but boys should not cry boys fight but girls girls shouldn't fight female societies both boys and girls can cry but they shouldn't fight either in religion you have different religions or different flavors of religions in the masculine in society focuses on God God the Father the mighty God and in female societies the Religion focuses on the neighbor and finally, obviously, it is also related to the sexual relationship and it could be said that in female society sex is a way of relating as a couple in masculine societies sex is a way of acting and, often, it is like that that man is a subject a woman is the object now, how do we measure the position of

masculinity

,

femininity

, all the dimensions for our society, it can only be measured in relation to other societies and we measure? in one more masculinity index and the scale goes from zero for the most feminine society to 200 for the most masculine society I have here a list of about 14 countries selected from the 76 for which we have scores and you see that this country with the highest masculinity score is Japan and also high all over the masculinity side we find Italy and Mexico and China and Great Britain and Germany and the US and on the other side we find the Arab countries right on that border we find France we find Russia we find Thailand Costa Rica Denmark and the Netherlands now, showing that there is no relationship between a country's wealth and masculinity or

femininity

.

There are poor and rich male countries and poor and rich female countries. Now what can we do with those math scores? correlate them with concrete facts of the society, for example, some things that correlate significantly with masculinity, femininity, first of all, the percentage of people who are functionally illiterate, which means that they cannot read or write in masculine societies that they are more functionally illiterate than in female societies, but also in male societies there are more people living below the poverty level than in female societies on the outside male societies spent a smaller part of their budget in poor countries h2 societies women spent a higher percentage of their budget in poor countries h2 surveys have been conducted to see what people blame for poverty and in masculine societies there is a popular opinion that poverty is attributed to laziness it means if people are poor are too weak or sell too lazy to work whereas in female societies poverty tends to be chalked up simply to bad marketing luck there is a difference clearly the food buyers are women so the Advertising, for example, of food is done to an audience of women in women's societies, both men and women buy food and, finally, something about their relationship between the employer and the employee when they are negotiating the conditions then in the masculine societies the salary it is clearly more important than leisure in female societies is at least as important as in female societies pleasure is at least as important as wages and in fact female societies tend to have longer vacations than male societies and in the Last point on Social Media It has been shown that in masculine societies people use social media to collect data and in female societies they use it more to build a relationship to develop relationships with other users – masculinity scores change over time and are transferred to the children of the family. obviously with the father and mother as role models and, as for the other dimensions, the country's currencies expressed in mathematical scores tend to be rooted in history.

I have an interesting example from the 16th century who is a comparative author at the time with merit. The Netherlands and compared to a couple where Great Britain was the man and the Netherlands was the woman this is still the position Great Britain is a Pascaline country and the Netherlands is a female country the database we use to compare the generations over distance of power and individualism, collectivism, unfortunately it does not do so, it does not allow comparison of the masculinity-femininity dimension because the world survey of values ​​is an American survey and it does not contain in its questionnaire values ​​related to the feminine pole of the dimension and if it has only one pole it cannot measuring a dimension in the usa the word femininity is taboo usa is of course a very masculine country and what is taboo taboo is an expression of a very strong value, a value so strong that the word shouldn't even be used, so my conclusion is that for lack of other evidence I consider masculinity and femininity on a societal level to be as stable as the other dimensions that