ABSTRACT
To date, Organizational Behaviour has been male oriented focusing on, and directed, in the main, towards the interests and activities of men in a gender differentiated society. Men and women are in different social situations, these situations being structurally and ideologically discrepant. Men and women are fundamentally different and this perceived difference is an organizing principle for the social life of the culture. Men and women will differ in life experiences, resources, power and reproductive processes. Women are construed as being inherently passionate, sexual beings who cannot function as well in the rational public sphere as men as they are overly prey to their basic emotions. The 'different voice' is resonant with gender stereotypes about the qualities of women and men and fits with social expectations about gender specialization. Social networks can explain success at work far better than assumptions about masculine versus feminine work styles.
