Question

What changes in children’s school and other socialization experiences will enable girls to acquire different occupational skills? Please explain with sufficient detail.

What are the key biological, psychological, sociocultural, and life-cycle forces that should inform training programs concerning sexual harassment in the workplace? Please address this question with sufficient detail.

Answer 1

* Inorder to enable girls to acquire different occupational skills, both boys and girls should be treated equally while developing their occupational skills. Girls should not be socialized in a way that encourage them to take up traditional female dominated occupations as teaching jobs, office jobs or the social work jobs instead they should be encouraged according to the aptitude and interest of theirs in various occupations. Similarly, boys should not be socialized to view particular jobs as man's job or woman's job instead they should be socialized in a way that makes them to respect the job whether it is carried out by a man or woman. Hence, socialization of boys and girls should be gender free regarding the occupations.

*The key biological, psychological, socio-cultural and life-cycle forces are:

• Training programs should address the real problems of sexual harassment and not just the virtual problems.
• It should identity the flaws of an organization that could promote sexual harassment and should eliminate those aspects during the training programs.
• Training programs should be focused on creating gender awareness.
• It should promote reporting of any harassment at the workplace.