I’d love to know what my colleagues have to say about a new report about how men and women differ in the work place. The study was done by Development Dimensions International (DDI), and Fox has the report:
“Matt Paese, a DDI executive coach and vice president, said that DDI associates who work to ensure smooth transitions for newly named top dogs in businesses ‘don’t see a big difference between men and women on skills, but rather in the way they feel about their skills.’
“Women execs typically find it easier to create a new network and inspire workers to perform, while they feel it is more challenging to delegate a workload. The female business leaders polled also said they feel they are better at engaging others to get tasks done than they are at assigning them in an authoritative manner.
“On the other hand (or brain), male professionals ranked building a new network as extremely challenging but find it easy to hand out assignments to new subordinates.”
The study repeats the old canard about the male-female wage gap (if you factor in choices made by women, such as to take a few years off to raise children, it disappears):
“The women surveyed value money, self-esteem and greater stimulation as what motivates them to put their best foot forward in their career. (Though at first I was surprised to find the majority of women polled focused on the dollar figure, it only took a few seconds for it to make sense. After all, as Evelyn Murphy reminds us in her book ‘Getting Even’: “Women working full-time – not part-time, not on maternity leave, not as consultants – still earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar.”)
“The polled men indicated they were not as concerned with salary, self-worth or stimulation factors as their female counterparts. Instead, they found it more important to feel productive and influential.”
“In another split between the sexes, women in the study expressed a need for better role models in making the transition smoother, while this was not as important for the male execs.”
I’ll go first and comment: Role models? Do we really need a lot of blather about role models? How about figuring out how to do your job and doing it? The platitudes about role models are: (A.) a way to call for more affirmative action (B.) there because we’ve all absorbed the language of therapy, management consultants, and feminism, or (C.) just plain dumb. Work is not about having role models?it is about having a paycheck.
Gang, what do you think?
business leaders polled also said they feel they are better at engaging others to get tasks done than they are at assigning them in an authoritative manner.“On the other hand (or brain), male professionals ranked building a new network as extremely challenging but find it easy to hand out assignments to new subordinates.”
The study repeats the old canard about the male-female wage gap (if you factor in choices made by women, such as to take a few years off to raise children, it disappears):
“The women surveyed value money, self-esteem and greater stimulation as what motivates them to put their best foot forward in their career. (Though at first I was surprised to find the majority of women polled focused on the dollar figure, it only took a few seconds for it to make sense. After all, as Evelyn Murphy reminds us in her book ‘Getting Even’: “Women working full-time – not part-time, not on maternity leave, not as consultants – still earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar.”)
“The polled men indicated they were not as concerned with salary, self-worth or stimulation factors as their female counterparts. Instead, they found it more important to feel productive and influential.”
“In another split between the sexes, women in the study expressed a need for better role models in making the transition smoother, while this was not as important for the male execs.”
I’ll go first and comment: Role models? Do we really need a lot of blather about role models? How about figuring out how to do your job and doing it? The platitudes about role models are: (A.) a way to call for more affirmative action (B.) there because we’ve all absorbed the language of therapy, management consultants, and feminism, or (C.) just plain dumb. Work is not about having role models?it is about having a paycheck.
Gang, what do you think?