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Surely one of the more exasperating consequences of changing social mores is the absence of behavioral norms for many circumstances that once were clearly programmed, such as, in the case of changing gender relations, opening doors, arranging dates, or paying restaurant bills. This is probably the level on which most of us are conscious of these changing mores; but deeper questions of relations between women and men are involved, ones of power and authority in the home and at work, for which there are still no clear norms.
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Henley, N.M., Harmon, S. (1985). The Nonverbal Semantics of Power and Gender: A Perceptual Study. In: Ellyson, S.L., Dovidio, J.F. (eds) Power, Dominance, and Nonverbal Behavior. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5106-4_8
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