The Gender Communication Handbook: Conquering Conversational Collisions between Men and Women

ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS AND TRAINING TOOLS

Chapter 1: Getting Started: Are Men and Women Just Born Different or Do They Learn to Be Different?

ABC NEWS Productions. (2006, September 9). The difference between men and women. 20/20 (transcript only).

Chapter 6: Men, Women, and Conflict: Take It Like a Man Versus Nice Girls Don’t Do Conflict

Exercise: Ball Throwing as a Metaphor for Conflict

Goal

Use ball throwing as a metaphor for how men and women handle conflict.

Objectives

• Explore how sex roles affect men’s and women’s approaches to conflict (throwing the ball easier, harder, and trickier).
• Understand the sex differences in women’s and men’s comfort level with an increasing intensity of ball throwing.
• Create an awareness of the gender-marked ...