In our Society Males have been stereotyped as better Managers, Employers or Boss compared to their Female Counterparts. Several Polls and surveys indicate that people are still suffering from the same old mentality.
The Gallup organization recently ran a poll that asked whether Employees prefer a male boss or a female boss. According to the poll, 35% of people would choose to work for a male boss, while 23% would prefer to work for a female boss. When the poll first ran in 1953, the numbers were 66% preferred males bosses, and only 5% preferred female bosses.
American Author BJ Gallagher, who wrote bestselling Viva Editions book It’s Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been, was featured on CNN in response to the results. In response, BJ Gallagher said, “I think it’s great to see that trend, so I’m very encouraged by it, but I’m not surprised that it’s still a 2-to-1 ratio of people preferring to work for men than women.”
She goes on to explain some of the reasons people prefer male bosses, like ingrained stereotypes such as that women may not be good bosses. “So the same tone of voice, the same words, the same body language, the same everything gets filtered through our stereotypes and assumptions about how various groups should behave,” she said.
Several Online Polls revealed that even women preferred male bosses. In an Interview with The Telegraph, Nicky Dulieu CEO of Hobbs says it’s our own fault that we lack confidence in ourselves and each other.
“It’s a general cultural phenomenon, the preference for men leaders and bosses,” Alice Eagly, a social psychology professor at Northwestern University, in the US, told Forbes in 2010. She supposes that “leaders are thought to be people who are dominant and competitive and . . . confident. Those kinds of qualities are ascribed to men far more than women. Women are ascribed to be nice”, according to The Age.
Some women employees say that prefer to work under male bosses as they apparently operate in rational, quantitative and measurable terms.
Several Women attribute it to “Queen Bee Syndrome”, a female leadership theory from the 1970s based on the thought that women in positions of power are, by nature, inclined to keep their female subordinates down.
In a 2010 Poll by UKJOBS.NET, 15% of Employees questioned said female bosses were too ‘sharp tongued’ and a third said it was obvious when it was their ‘time of the month’ because of mood swings.
Other negative assessments included them being ‘too cliquey’, too competitive and spending too long worrying about their appearance.
Forty per cent said men were more able to distance themselves from politics and bitching and 14% said they found them more reasonable than women.