The Role Of Men And Women In Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures was set in Hampton, Virginia in 1961. Each woman was a genius from birth and their abilities were taken for granted in a white, male dominant work place. Their intelligence was a huge part of the success in the launch of the first American into space. One prominent hardship in Hidden Figures was sexism. Women had to work in male dominated places and that sometimes proved to be a hostile environment. For women of color in the Jim Crow era, it was double jeopardy dealing with gender and race in the work place. (Odonkor) Sexism was demonstrated many times throughout the movie by a denial of opportunities. For example, Katherine struggled to

Leadership is now more evident than ever in our everyday lives as well as in the everyday media. The movie Hidden Figures by Theodore Melfi is a demonstration of leadership in my many different aspects. This movie is the story of three African American women that were an important asset to NASA during the early years of the Space Race. The movie highlights the concepts of Servant Leadership, Authentic Leader, the Situational Approach to leadership, Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Adaptive Leadership.

The gender bias found in relation to leadership in the civil rights movement often excludes African-American women’s contributions as being of less importance and prominence; however, in hindsight informal leaders were on equal level with formal leaders and bridge leaders served an important function resulting from exclusion.

Because of gender norms in the 1960’s, society was resistant toward women in power and leadership, especially African American ones. Even though African American women had the traits, skills, and personalities to be formal leaders of social justice movements like the Civil Rights Movement, they were never given a platform to do so, mostly because their leadership wouldn’t be recognized as legitimate

Compared to the many male leaders of America and those who made a difference, the number of female leaders and those who made a difference is very small. At least that’s how it seems since a majority of the female efforts in history go unrecognized. There were many women that changed America; they made a gigantic impact on the American history. Women, before, during, and after colonial times, had no rights as those of a property owning white man. They were just above a slave in social status. White women and women of color fought for a change in their country. Many rights were exclusively for the white man who owned property and was of Puritan belief. During time, male African Americans had won the right to vote, but not even the white

The first women that I noticed that possessed leadership characteristics is Marian Anderson. Marian faced racial injustices from the day she was born. The leadership quality I think she possessed is patient. From when she was denied entry to a school of music when she was little, to when she was prohibited from singing in Washington’s Constitution Hall. “She had gone from a little-known concert singer to an icon who reminded Americans not just of the evils of segregation, but of their capacity to do better” (Collins 107). Marian waited all of her life to finally get the recognition she deserved, but it did not come till she was well past her prime.

One identified contributor to women's slower than expected assent into leadership is the persistence of assumptions and stereotypes that women are intrinsically "communal" or "dependent" and "passive", and therefore, lack the capacity to succeed as leaders. (National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2006 as cited by Isaac, Kaatz & Carnes, 2012).

In history books, males are always presented as the leaders of the United States. It has become a stereotype that men are the leaders in politics and business, but as the world has advanced, there has been a need for women representatives and leaders. In the documentary Miss Representation, “The U.S. in the world is 90th in terms of women in the national legislature”(Newsom 2011). The reason why the U.S. is 90th is because as the media has become a more powerful influence in the United States, women are experiencing more backlash from becoming leaders. The media is causing the U.S. to lag behind in the world’s progression of women leadership.Women should be able to rise up as leaders in America without discrimination from the media or faulty views of

Feminist leaders were also inspired by the Civil Rights movement, through which many of them had gained civic organizing experience. At the same time, according to tavaana.org, black women played a key role in the Civil Rights movement, especially through local organizations, but were shut out of leadership roles. Meanwhile in the 1970’s, the women's anti-war movement was joined by a new generation of more radical young women protesting "the way in which the traditional women's peace movement condoned and even enforced the gender hierarchy in which men made war and women wept.”[Ibid. 367

First, being a woman and embracing my femininity has both positive and negative impacts on my ability to lead. Because I am a woman I have to work harder to glean access to similar caliber opportunities as men. Even though the gender gap is not as large as it was in decades past, it still exists with in my society and is a huge obstacle to my

Women until the approximate last eighty hundred years have been seen as meek, soft, and only able to handle the domestic needs of the family home. Even when the women were taking care of the family home, the children, and at times the family business, they were still deemed second-class citizens unable to have a voice in politics, family, and basic life needs. Luckily, with time, consistency, and the support of men and women of all nationalities, we all have earned the privilege of making choices for ourselves equally while being able to use our own voice. All of the struggles and sacrifices paved the way for leaders both male and female, black or white that previously would not have been allowed to have a voice, but now have changed the world in way never thought possible.

Thesis statement: Leadership depends on the leader’s leadership style and there way of communicating ideas rather than the leader themselves. Both women and men believe in similar leadership styles however women prefer a more participative leadership approach.

The 2016 historical film, Hidden Figures directed by Theodore Melfi which explores the themes of racism and sexism in America during the 1960’s. Melfi uses visual and verbal features of dialogue, costume and symbolism to display that sexism and racism is hard to abolish. The messages that Melfi conveys to the audience is that unequal pay and expected sexist uniforms are still present, but if we do something about it, it can be removed.

The concept of power is an applicable leadership concept. Leaders use power to decipher whether they have the ability to acquire the commitment or obedience from their workers/officers. Leaders that are educated or trained under the old-paradigm, have low levels of expectations of others around them, and tend to use

Gender and leadership? Leadership and gender? A journey through the landscape of theories start off by giving a statistical summary of percentages of women in higher echelon position in the workforce. With this information in the intro, the article quickly highlights the limited representation of women in exclusive positions in Fortune 500 companies. Next, the paper examines multiple theories why this problem exists in the workforce. The four theories examined are biology and sex; gender role; causal factors; and attitudinal drivers (Appelbaum et al, 2003, p. 44).