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To: shrinkermd
The study found that when presented with applications for promotion, women were more likely than men to assess the female candidate as less qualified than the male one.

This compels the casual observer to want to ask, why?

3 posted on 01/02/2007 4:55:22 AM PST by x_plus_one (Allah has no son.)
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To: x_plus_one

Sometimes men managers think with the "wrong head." They find the female candidate to be more "qualified" because she is good looking and flirts with them. She is promoted over the male with far more applicable experience and more approprite temperament for the job. Just happened where I work. Major mistake.

Female managers come in all types, just as males do. Some are micro-managers, others more laid back. But often females become more micro-managers because male bosses tend to hold their feet to the fire and "beat up" on them verbally when their subordinates mess up.

As a female boss, I'm pretty laid back, and all my employees are female. But then again, I'm very close to retirement eligble.


11 posted on 01/02/2007 5:47:42 AM PST by Help!
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