Kathy CaprinoGlobal Career & Leadership Breakthrough Coach | Writer | Speaker| Trainer supporting professional growth and success

When Masculine Norms Shape Leadership Norms and How That's Damaging

3 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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The video is a conversation about how traditional masculine norms—narrow ideals emphasizing dominance, aggression, winning, and competition—have shaped leadership norms and organizational behavior. The speakers link these norms to gender imbalances, patriarchy, and hyper-competitive workplace cultures that valorize aggression over collaboration. The excerpt foregrounds how socialization and organizational values perpetuate these patterns.

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Masculine norms. It's very narrow. You know, it's very dominant. Being aggressive, being a winner. Take all kind of approach to what it means to be a man. You know, he holds a lot of imbalance in terms of relationship across genders, you know, because historically, we know that women have been also socialized themselves to see themselves as inferior as men. Right. We were talking about patriarchy a little bit before Katzi. So this idea of this over glorification of traditional masculine norms, well, led to the word that we have today, which is hyper competitive, which is driven on competition over aggression. Those are attributes that we have valued a long time within organizations and with. And in the way also organizations compete with one another.

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