Overview
The Pierce reading provides a fascinating connection among the topics of emotional labor, gender identity, stereotyping, and gendered harassment at work. She brings up a few interesting questions toward the end of the article. Let's discuss them here.
While Pierce's case of interest is paralegals, there are other occupations that demand emotional labor differentially for women vs. men. Think of another occupation, if you can, in which this happens. Focus your posts on a specific example (either paralegals or your own example).
Instructions: After reading Pierce and the other articles/other course materials on the topic of emotional labor, answer the following questions.
Questions:
- How does the expectation of a nurturing attitude in the workplace affect the work lives of women?
- How does this expectation discriminate against some women?
- Should the U.S. expand the scope of harassment "to include the systematic forms of gender stereotyping," as Pierce suggests?
- What might happen in the workplace as a result of such expansion?
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