Women Top Men on Skill as Managers

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I chose this article because it was a more positive one about women in the workplace. According to a survey, in Australia, of more than 3,000 to male and female executive’s women make better senior managers on 15 of 16 performance measures such as leadership, decision-making, and people management. They tied with the men when it came to problem-solving.
The study goes on the talk about how men and women tend to have very different views about why women are so poorly represented at the top of corporate Australia, like the workplace culture, inflexible working arrangements, pay inequity, and personal choice. Women have different priorities than men in the workplace. They are more concerned with flexible working arrangements and equal workplace culture. This is because women tend to be more compassionate and considerate.
The article states that the results show that women tend to be more attuned than their male counterparts to the nature of their workplace culture, a factor that can drive an organisation’s success.  Regardless of gender as a company you need to focus on getting right people with strong skills into the senior management positions. The study also talks about how 74% of men believe their company gives equal pay by gender, while only 43% of women believe this. This is a wide gap that can be dangerous for a company. Companies need to make sure that they treat men and women equally and don’t look like they find men superior.
Do you believe that women really do make better managers than men? Do you think that this is true in all areas of business or just certain ones?