Just stumbled upon someone talking about an experiment conducted once where they left a group of boys alone for some length of time and a group of girls alone for some length of time. The boys immediately developed a hierarchy, assigning a leader, while the girls did not, instead opting to communally do their own thing.
Truthfully I've never given much deep thought to hierarchy before. I do know that at work, where I've been a manager since I was fairly young, I have been told many times that I should behave and carry myself a certain way - typically with force and finality - and have often been criticized for my lack of an "iron fist" approach even if I explain that there was no reason for me to have an "iron fist" with the particular group of people I was working with. I do find myself needing to act beyond my comfort zone when more men are involved, giving more thought to how I interact with each person to get them to do what I need them to do.
Anyway right now where the production/leadership side of this show is exclusively male, I have found that there is a big to do always being made about who has which title and how much deference we show to any given person which, to me, seems entirely counterproductive and a waste of time. One second I'm being treated like dirt because someone of a "higher status" is present, then the next second I have other people tripping over themselves to help me because I "shouldn't be doing such low level work." I do wonder how the culture in this particular workplace came to be this way.
With my main crew of women who I enjoy working with, we've always divided things up by individual strengths and titles were more or less meaningless.
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