A recent Pew Research survey showed that Americans rank women higher than men in 5 out of 8 leadership qualities and equal to men in 2 of the remaining 3. The only quality in which men outscored women is “decisiveness”.
Yet women lag behind in being elected or appointed to leadership positions in government and business.
How did the survey participants resolve this apparent paradox?
Well, much to my relief, the old saws about women being unable to balance work and family responsibilities or not having enough experience didn’t make it among the top explanations.
Rather, the public cited “gender discrimination, resistance to change, and a self-serving “old boys club” as reasons for the relative scarcity of women at the top.”
Amen, amen and amen again.