The position usually has no job description or formal performance evaluation criteria. Using gender to meet organizational goals Mexican American supervisors in the CA lettuce fields would yell at female field hand but not males. They also would flirt with the females. Delta airlines regulated flight attendants' displays of emotion, size and dress to increase customer satisfaction. Attendants were taught they were selling themselves rather than Delta.
Women use celebrations to take time off from work, create community, and create bridges.
Celebrating private life can lead to accommodation, but it also can build bridges and forge communities capable of resisting employer oppression and or domination at home. Unions that address women's issues such as pay equity, age discrimination, and equal opportunity are more likely to win elections. Men's work groups Men more likely use gender displays and jokes demeaning homosexuals and women to establish bonds. With sex integration of jobs, boundaries are heightened. Boundary heightening is when the majority group increases displays of its homogeneity.