Women A Force In The Workplace

Women talk too much. Get too emotional. They hug you! Those are some of the reasons workers don’t like women bosses as much as men bosses. A recent Gallup poll showed that 46 percent of people surveyed (men and women) would prefer a male boss. Twenty percent favored a woman. The rest had no preference.

“We find a persistent gender bias in the workplace,” the editors of the Gallup Poll concluded.

Women of the work world, put away those victim hankies. Maybe several years ago women would have reacted emotionally to this news. Tried to force those male - and traitor female - employees to appreciate them more. Tried to convince them to appreciate their leadership styles of cooperation and compromise.

But instead of crying, more women are simply starting their own businesses. One out of every four American workers is now employed by a business owned by a woman. There are 7.9 million women-owned companies, a 78 percent increase since 1987. Women are opening their own businesses for the same reasons men do. They want independence, challenge and opportunity. Women are becoming business owners for gender-specific reasons, too. Some hit the glass ceiling in big corporations. Some wanted jobs that allow them to better combine work and family.

Women are in the workplace to stay. In fact, they are creating more of the workplaces than ever before. Chances are a woman will be hiring you in the future. She’ll be your boss. Like it or not.

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