Seems to me we could use more people who embody kindness, grace, nurturing, sensitivity and other values that were traditionally championed by women.
Nurturing that sensitivity in a tough police culture should be counted as a large part of Mr. Louima's compensation.
This should include teaching leadership skills (see below), communication skills and nurturing ethical sensitivity by adopting a life-long regular practice of reflective learning.
Social causes like public awareness campaigns and nonprofit work are often more amenable to having female leadership too, as many women exhibit qualities like sensitivity, nurture and empathy.
We can nurture our cultural sensitivity and rejoice in the symbolic and poetic richness and diversity of the human condition.
A half-dozen pages later, she says: "A female culture — one that embraces compassion, nurturing, collaboration and sensitivity — by nature creates a more productive, pleasant place to work than an atmosphere of fear, danger and macho competition.
Error detection may also play an important part in the actual perception of events: the comparable number of yes answers for contact items and causal yes-filler items in our data implies that the event-completion effect is nurtured by the sensitivity of the error-detection mechanism.
You have a high level of sensitivity when nurturing a life," says Farber.
Women loved us because of our presumed sensitivity and nurturing.
The second psychosocial mechanism, gender-role orientation (GRO), refers to an individual's 'masculinity' (characterised by traits such as aggressiveness, dominance and independence) or 'femininity' (traits such as warmth, sensitivity and nurturing).
In our rapidly shrinking world, cultural sensitivity and adaptability, nurtured both inside and outside the classroom, have never been more important, just as American competitiveness demands that we utilize the talents of our entire population, not merely those who have been traditionally well represented on our campuses.
