One should strive to be the best and failure is a disaster. Genders study different subjects, managers are decisive and assertive, stress is on equity, competition, and performance. Conflict is resolved by fighting them out. Socially and politicaly this orientation is expressed in high performance ideal, support for the strong, big and fast are beautiful, priority of economic growth, little govt budget to helping poor countries, large spent on armaments. International conflicts resolved by conflict.
Dominant religions stress male prerogotive.
In F societies, roles are often merged or overlap for the sexes. The countries ranked lowest on masculinity were Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Costa Rica, Yugoslavia, Finland, Chile, Portugal, Thailand, and Guatemala. Dominant values are caring for others and preseveration, people and relationships are important, everyone should be modest, men and women can be gentle, both can express wekaness and fighting minimized, sympathy for weakness, failing is an accident, work to live, managers use intuition and strive for concensus, stress quality of work life, and resolve conflict by compromise and negotiation. In the socio-political realm this refers to the welfare society ideal, help the needy, permissiveness, small and slow are beautiful, priority of preservation of the environment, large assistance to poor countries and small to armaments, conflict resolution by negotiation and compromise, large number of women in elected positions, religions stress complementarity of sexes. Accepted practices regarding formality and informality of interaction are covered under protocol.