Men Are the Better Manager Compared to Women

Men are the Better Manager Compared to Women

The issue whether women are as good as their male counterparts at being managers or supervisors is an often discussed issue in today's media. In a survey with 60,000 respondents of both sexes approximately 66 percent answered that men lead more effectively than women do. Moreover, the participants were asked if they would prefer working for a man or woman. More than 70 percent of those who have a preference answered, they prefer a man as their supervisor (Tahmincioglu, 2008). Furthermore, if women would be as good as men are as managers there would be more women in manager positions. As an example, not even four percent of CEO's in the biggest companies in America are women (McKee, 2006). Hence, the essential thesis of this paper is that men are the better managers compared to women.

The first topic to be discussed is that most women accept gender biases in the workplace. Many women are often too understanding when colleagues have prejudices against them. They try to see in everybody the best, and women think they are not doing it on purpose. Furthermore, men can be sexist in their behavior or opinion. Too many women in business accept those incidents too easily, instead of speaking up because they are used to it (McKee, 2006). As a result, women look weak, and they are reducing themselves in rank.

One could assume since there are more and more couples in which both are full-time workers, numbers have more than doubled compared to the 1960's, that the household responsibilities are shared equally between them. Reality shows that women are still more occupied with household duties and raising children; studies show that those women do nearly 70 percent of the household next to her job. Women are more willing to make compromises at work to care for their family (Lamanna & Riedmann, 2009). Especially in managerial positions, it is usual to work more hours per week then a common employee. Therefore, those hours are causing women stress about balancing work and family life. About 47 percent of women in higher-level management state that they have severe problems when it comes to work and family balance (Burke & Mattis, 2005). Furthermore, women with children often take a break in their career to raise the children. Their career goals become less valuable. Approximately two-thirds of 18,000 asked mothers with preschool children do not work fulltime. It is a fact that very few managers work part time (Lamanna & Riedmann, 2009).

The third reason men are better managers when compared to women is that men are much more work-centered than women are. Women try to interweave professional life with personal life,