In Deborah Tannen’s “But What Do You Mean? Women and Men in Conversation, she provides an example of how women seem to be stuck in their limitations that has come from a culture of gender expectations (Henslin, 193). At an insurance company, a woman named Helen excessively apologizes, even when she is not in the wrong; she is a quality and productive worker, but received one of the smallest bonuses--not because of unfair wages. She is stuck in the gender role of passiveness that women have been expected to display for a long while, and so her ritual of apologizing for everything had affected her work, and consequentially, her pay. This is not necessarily her blame, though, but more so an effect of gender roles in society. As displayed in just one component of the workplace, the consequences of gender role are prevalent when it comes to inequality within
In Deborah Tannen’s “But What Do You Mean? Women and Men in Conversation, she provides an example of how women seem to be stuck in their limitations that has come from a culture of gender expectations (Henslin, 193). At an insurance company, a woman named Helen excessively apologizes, even when she is not in the wrong; she is a quality and productive worker, but received one of the smallest bonuses--not because of unfair wages. She is stuck in the gender role of passiveness that women have been expected to display for a long while, and so her ritual of apologizing for everything had affected her work, and consequentially, her pay. This is not necessarily her blame, though, but more so an effect of gender roles in society. As displayed in just one component of the workplace, the consequences of gender role are prevalent when it comes to inequality within