Why Gender Intelligence is Important
Gender intelligence is knowing how to work better with people of the opposite gender. It isn’t ignoring or merely tolerating differences—it’s celebrating them, embracing them, and understanding how to harness them to improve productivity, innovation, decision making and growth. There are many fundamental differences in which the different genders respond to a situation – be it domestic or workplace-related. Generally, this response is the resultant juxtaposition of multiple aspects of our existence including personal and impersonal factors, social, cultural, behavioral, psychological, and importantly, biological factors. Gender intelligence entails that we understand these differences and embrace them to create a better environment of cooperation and cohesion such that all the genders are able to complement each other in unprecedented ways – both at workplace and elsewhere. It is the awareness that differences in gender are first informed by nature, and then influenced by family, education, culture, and environment.
In pursuit of gender equality, organizations have realized that mere number parity cannot usher in true gender equity. Gender diversity at present is in dire need of readdressing the fact that the present-day preferred communication style is that of men, with little or no regard to the communication style of women. It is my belief that truly achieving Inclusion and Equity in Diversity will come through change in perception in all the sexes, and acceptance and inculcation of such perception into both – conscious and subconscious behavior. A better understanding of the genders and their tendencies towards thinking and acting in their own unique ways, would yield a better understanding of the opposite gender as well as open up avenues of more powerful and meaningful conversation between them – this is the desired key objective of greater harmony and cohesion between the genders, which certainly positively affects both – organizational performance as well as individual life.
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