| This "article" is garbage, which is sad because it hints at a much more interesting discussion about women and men in the workplace. I'm not in a position to give this a proper analysis either, but what the hell, it's the internet after all. I work in insurance, which is a female dominated field (at least until you look at the top) and am married. My wife openly admits that she prefers male bosses. Personally, I've had as many good female managers than I have male. Here is what I have noticed though: Women hate each other. With a passion. Even their "friends". I also think women have a very under-developed (okay, let's concede "different") idea of conflict, at least when compared to men, and I think it is evolutionary. Men seem to me to be able to "team bond" almost instantly, perform a high level of conflict engagement with very defined "rules" (whether on the sports field, the boardroom or even combat itself). Within this arena, men are ruthless assholes at the best of times, and downright immoral at the worst. But almost always in support of the team - those that act otherwise are ostracized. After the conflict though, men revert to a rest state where the actions of the conflict are almost immediately discarded to a simply won/lost equation. Strangely enough, women that either prefer or can adapt to this environment seem to excel. Women though in almost every case seem to approach this situation in the exact opposite fashion: team bonding takes forever, and can be shattered by something as simple as a perceived slight at first introduction, women limit their actions within the arena, and the events that occur during the conflict are remembered almost forever. I've seen 10 year friendships end over something as simple as not properly crediting someone enough during a boardroom presentation. I think it all goes back to the caveman days - men needed to find allies fast to tackle that mammoth, or "enemy of my enemy is my friend" when the threat was more human. Women needed to be much more guarded - everyone who wasn't a long term immediate family member was a threat to the tribe, and even then you advance by being with the alpha male, so getting him is the main objective, your sister be damned. But this is just my 5 cents. It's really nothing more than an opinion on the internet. So don't read into it too much. |