A major area of research on power in organizations examines the experiences of women at work. Which of the statements given below is also true of women at work?a)Stereotyping is no longer a problem for women at work.b)It is illegal to treat pregnancy as a cause for dismissal.c)Women’s representation in the ranks of executives has remained the same in recent years.d)Women tend to use a transactional leadership style.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

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A major area of research on power in organizations examines the experiences of women at work. Which of the statements given below is also true of women at work?a)Stereotyping is no longer a problem for women at work.b)It is illegal to treat pregnancy as a cause for dismissal.c)Women&rsquo;s representation in the ranks of executives has remained the same in recent years.d)Women tend to use a transactional leadership style.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

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One significant problem for women at work is stereotyping: 52 per cent of employed women work in occupational groups in which more than 60 per cent of their co-workers are women, such as clerical and secretarial work, service work and sales. Women are also vastly over-represented in part-time work and pregnancy is still (illegally) treated by some employers as a cause for dismissal. Perhaps most revealing of the pervasive discrimination against women in the workplace is the data on pay: in 2003, women’s average hourly pay was still only 82 per cent of men’s. Although women have increased their representation somewhat in the ranks of executives, they still account for less than 5 per cent of company directors (Equal Opportunities Commission, 2004) in the UK.
One issue, which is much debated, is whether women have different managerial or leadership styles from men. The bulk of the research suggests there are large differences within genders as well as between them, but that women adopt a consistently more democratic and participative style of management than men do (Eagly & Johnson, 1990; Powell, 1993). Some researchers argue that women also have a more ‘transformational’ style, inspiring and encouraging their employees, whereas men tend to use a ‘transactional’ style, punishing and rewarding selectively to achieve the desired task-related behaviours (e.g. Rosener, 1990).

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