Men are being squeezed out of top jobs because they can't compete with 'talkative' female rivals, study finds

Men face being squeezed out of the best-paying jobs because they cannot compete with the face-to-face confidence of female rivals, a study has found.

It said women were winning the battle for success because they were better at getting on with colleagues and clients.

The study found that over a 20-year period, a lower share of men were appointed to the highest-paid jobs, even though the number of such jobs increased.

The research published by the UBS International Centre of Economics in Society said: 'The key driver seems to be growing demand for social skills, such as empathy, communication, emotion recognition and verbal expression, in which evidence from psychological research indicates that women have a comparative advantage.'


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6991023/Men-squeezed-jobs-compete-talkative-female-rivals.html

We have more female bosses than men where I work. Don’t know why that is.

I find women harder to deal with than men in the workplace. They’re a lot bitchier.

Come to think of it, I've never had a male boss who wasn't a little more blessed in the talking and personality departments than your average Joe. They've all had that leadership charisma.

eddie wrote:We have more female bosses than men where I work. Don’t know why that is.

I find women harder to deal with than men in the workplace. They’re a lot bitchier.

I've heard the same thing before from people who work in personnel areas or in the employment field...

Female bosses and supervisors are bitchier;
Female-dominated workplaces are both bitchier and less productive/efficient -- especially where the proportion of women rises above 60% or so..

The best balanced and best-run workplaces seem to occur when the proportion of women drops to around 40% or so.

On the other hand, all male workplaces can often become rougher, more bullying, more reckless -- so that introducing a few women into the mix will steady and stabilse many workplaces, and of course, women will often lift the efficiency in certain areas..

Amd don't forget those old 'addages' about "(most) women can't read maps" and "(many) men can't follow directions"...

There is still bullying in a female environment. It’s just sneakier and underplayed.
I find that a lot worse.

I’ve left jobs due to other females.

I've never had a fulltime job in a 'female dominated' workplace, so I've never been directly affected like those in the O/P...

I reckon those kinds of personnel problems would be a lot more common in many office environments, and in many retail,  health, and primary education areas..

Certainly not in agricultural or heavy industry fields, where most of my employment has been.

A bit different in my beekeeping, though, as well --  where 99.9% of a beehive's resident population is female.  In there, the females "rule the roost"..

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

I've never had a fulltime job in a 'female dominated' workplace, so I've never been directly affected like those in the O/P...

I reckon those kinds of personnel problems would be a lot more common in many office environments, and in many retail,  health, and primary education areas..

Certainly not in agricultural or heavy industry fields, where most of my employment has been.

A bit different in my beekeeping, though, as well --  where 99.9% of a beehive's resident population is female.  In there, the females "rule the roost"..

Ah...the Queen Bee. She who must be obeyed.