KADINLARIN YÖNETİMDEKİ BECERİLERİNE İLİŞKİN GEÇMİŞTEN GÜNÜMÜZE BEYİN ARAŞTIRMALARI: KADINLAR YÖNETİMDE HAK ETTİĞİ STATÜYE SAHİP Mİ?

Abstract

Bu çalışma, tarih boyunca kadının toplumsal yapıdan dışlanmasında öne çıkan beyin araştırmalarını incelemeyi ve daha çok kadının yönetim koltuğuna oturması gereken durumlara açıklık getirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla öncelikle beyin araştırmalarında kadına yönelik ayrımcılık yapan ve kadınları aşağılayan tarihsel tanımlar, günümüz beyin araştırmalarındaki gelişmeler bağlamında kadın ve erkek beynindeki biyolojik farklılıklar ve kadın beyninin ortaklaşa şekillendirdiği kültürel etki-evrim analiz edilmiştir. Geçmişteki ve günümüzdeki beyin araştırmaları, evrimi ve gelişimi sağlayan süreçler, temel veri niteliğindedir. Alan yazından elde edilen veriler, geçmişte gözlemlenen süreçler ve olaylar ile sürecin nasıl şekillendirildiği araştırılarak dolaylı gözleme dayalı nitel çalışma yapılmıştır. Olaylar ve olgular bir bütün olarak yorumlanmış ve betimlenmiştir. Kadına karşı ayrımcılık yapan beyin çalışmaları, kadının evrimde ve gelişmede oynadığı biyolojik ve toplumsal rol ve kadının toplumun ve yönetimin merkezine yerleştirilmesi temel konulardır. Araştırma sonucunda kadınların yönetimde yeterlilik açısından nasıl ayrımcılığa maruz kaldığı, kadınların evrimsel rolleri ve beyin kapasiteleri nedeniyle toplumun ve yönetimin öncüleri oldukları ortaya çıkmıştır.

Keywords

• Beyin araştırması
• Kadın
• Evrim
• Yönetim
• Cinsiyet.

BRAIN RESEARCH FROM PAST TO PRESENT ON THE SKILLS OF WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT: ARE WOMEN IN DESERVED STATUS IN MANAGEMENT?

Abstract

This study aims at to search prominent brain studies that externalised women from communal system and set forth the situations that more women should take the management chair. Firstly, historical definitions that discriminate women and haul them down in brain research, biological dissimilarities in brains according to gender in today's brain research, and the cultural effect shaped by the female brain in co-evolution are analyzed. Brain research in past and today, processes that provide evolution and development, are the basic data investigated. A qualitative study grounds on indirect observation was conducted by probing the data from literature, the continuums and incidents observed in history, and how the continuum was shaped. Events and facts were interpreted and described in their entirety. Brain studies that discriminate against women, the biological and communal act played by women in evolution, development and fitting women at the hub of community and management are the issues that provide clues in the analysis. It is seen how women have been subject to to discrimination with regard to competency in management as a result. As a result it appears that women are the precursor of society and management due to their evolution roles and brain capacity.

Keywords

• Brain research
• Woman
• Evolution
• Management
• Gender

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