Doing Gender by Giving ‘Good Service’”
In the article,”Doing Gender by Giving Good Service by Elaine Hall she explains how gender roles are a significant contribution to how people treat and rate their service if it’s good or bad. Hall describes two approaches gendered organization approach and gender in organization approach; she goes into detail to explain the relationship between both and how one has more power over the other using her information from her research.
Hall defines the gender in the organization approach to be center more to the differences between the genders and their behavior in the work environment. Hall explains that the gender in an organization is brought into a gender-neutral work environment by the person. She uses the example of the woman police officer who is classified as a gender neutral career, however as the difference between female and male police officers are very easily to rise to question when sexual harassment is involved. Also, society tends to view female police officers as weak and not up to the standards as male police officers would be. This is when the gender roles and their behavior set them apart.
In a gendered organization, Hall describes to be the gender who play a role in what job the person would perform better. It Dates back to when a woman would be only good as caregivers at home due to their gender. Hall explains how in the restaurant business women have to be flirty, to give excellent service, when the waiters do not have to be flirty to provide good service. The gender organization portrays a role different when it comes to gender. If you’re a woman you are mostly to be hired as a housekeeper or a nanny, why?. Because society has set the idea that woman are born with a giving to be caretakers and therefore will be performed better as so. Their gender plays a significant role when getting hired for certain jobs.
Depending on what the job is looking for they will hire you, in the club/restaurant business if they are seeking to attract men as consumers, they will hire young good looking girls and give them uniforms in which benefits their bodies. Not only do they have to wear tiny and rebelling uniforms they also have to flirt and be well put with their hair and makeup done. This is an example of how gender organization plays a role in whether or not you will hire and once hired you still have to keep up with the job requirements of the workplace giving more power when it comes to addressing the way gender constructed within the workplace.
