A supervisor role has more masculine traits such as being bold, controlling, and confident whereas a woman’s role would be traits connected with caring, kind and nurturing. 

Social role examples in the workplace

Based on social role theory, when employees conform to expected roles, they receive more approval whereas employees that don’t conform receive less approval. 

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The Social Role Theory proposes that our ideas about people are formed because of our social experiences. 

Social Role Theory

Yu, A., Pichler, S., Russo, M., & Hammer, L. (2021). Family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB) and work-family conflict: The role of stereotype content, supervisor gender, and gender role beliefs. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12379

Family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB) and work-family conflict: The role of stereotype content, supervisor gender, and gender role beliefs

Employees conforming to roles

The two factors that can influence employee’s judgments that are based on gender are first the supervisor's gender and then the employee’s gender role beliefs.

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