Are women better leaders than men?

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I've seen many studies proving that women are more suited leaders than men. I'm not surprised because girls get things done more effective than boys.

Ez-Bri-Z · Accepted Answer

Better? No.

Just as qualified to lead? Absolutely.

I am so tired of seeing this same tired debate about how women lead emotionally and we will start wars just because we are on our period. Men have started every war in history but they get a free pass because they choose to let others bleed instead of themselves?

Maybe empathy is what we need more of in this world not cold logic. Cold logic is what we see a lot of now and it has put the priority into lining the pockets of those in power at the oppression of the rest of us and instead of us fighting back against it, everyone becomes cheerleaders of a team color in politics. It is exhausting to watch so many self described "intellectuals" all fall for the same act from both sides when in the end they are all doing the same thing. Very few are in office to actually make a real difference for others and not themselves.

We need better morality from our leaders, both male and female. Leaders who are just as good with logic as they are with empathy. If it means a better balance of men and women leading then I am all for that.

BlackBeauty90 · Accepted Answer

No. Women are more emotionally driven & less logic driven than men. In leadership roles logic not emotion is paramount. You can NOT make truly sound decisions on emotion and anyone who says yes you can is an idiot.

Furthermore this emotional aspect is why women are more prone to petty even spiteful behaviour and in leadership roles this is of course extremely detrimental to the team spirit, productivity, etc.

This is why in jobs where logic is vital, such as military or policing, it isn't necessarily the women's physical weakness why they are less numerous than men in such roles. But simply because from a psychological standpoint they're not "cut out" to be military or police. Emotional aspects, including compassion and empathy, serve best in medical roles on the other hand as example and why nurses for years were predominantly female.

ZackBan · Accepted Answer

That's just feminist propaganda feeding your young brain with ideas that suit their naratives.

Get things done more than men? Since when?

Literally everything you see around you was created by a man both the good and the bad, women complain now but they fail to understand that their ancestors chose to be on the sidelines.
For thousands of years women were happy to go from their father's care to their husband's and have their kids be their only mission in life.
Men had to advance technology, fight wars, discover lands, enforce a law that makes their society safe etc...

So just saying now after thousands of years "yeah women are naturally better at this" where are you getting that information? What is the proof women are better? I keep hearing this but have Literally never seen an example where women were better simply for being women.
Even the countries with women as presidents, these are people who worked hard and bettered themselves to make it to the big office, they can be both good and bad and being a woman in no way affects their performance positively.

TDDMS · Accepted Answer

No, women don't make good leaders, in fact they tend to fuck everything up. Firstly women think with their feelz, intuition is an aspect of leadership, but again women think with their feelz on everything. I've witnessed too many women in leadership/management positions try to make EVERYONE happy. They don't understand that you can't make everyone happy. Instead they would have done better had they focused on keeping people on task. Something I've seen when women are in leadership positions is they tend to hire a cadre of toadies to give her "advice" (translation: They tell her how to do her job and if she fucks it up, she can turn to her entourage and blame them for her fucking up rather than accepting responsibility for her low IQ low frequency emotional thinking.)

Ultimately at the jobs I've worked, after upper management would install a woman in a leadership position, invariable they would replace her with a man to pull the company out of an uncontrollable vertical nose dive, get the company back on the flight path, and lead the company to its goals.

ManOnFire · Answer

We would need to see a world where governments/institutions/corporations/etc. are largely female-dominated to get a good look at this.

There have been some good women leaders in our world (I think Angela Merkle has been pretty good), but in my personal opinion I do not think women in general are better leaders. Whether they are managers or politicians, they are not often better than male leadership, even when I've hated men in these positions. Some of these women are great, but on average they are not better at leadership than men to me, and they usually have problems with other women that gets in the way of the job.

hahahmm · Answer

Women don't even like working for women. I think they know better than random men. Even a feminists wouldn't claim that a woman isn't qualified to judge women.

The vast majority of women aren't interested in putting in the work/sweat to be a leader so it doesn't even matter if you can give them a test that shows they would be great at it. I could give you a 10 minute test that says you'd make a good astronaut. Doesn't make you an astronaut. Those few women who want to put in as much time, sweat and stress as men do, rise to the top.

You probably grew up around a lot of weak men... then it seems natural to you that women are better leaders. Those of us who know/grew up around strong men have a different opinion.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

What constitutes a "better leader" necessarily involves some judgments and choices that are quite subjective, so there is no proof that one gender is better than the other. Many people make assumptions on the bass of stereotypes about the genders but those stereotypes pertain to the population at large an not necessarily the subset which has the potential to become leaders. E. g., people assume that women would not engage in warfare nearly as often as men but hose who have looked at that issue have concluded that women were just as prone to warfare as were men.

Hairylegs222 · Answer

A leader depends on who qualifies to be best suited for the role. Doesn't matter if it's a man or woman, a strong leader can be either one. I've had strong supervisor men and women in my life. A certain kind of personality with certain traits I've noticed are good leaders. They're calm during any situation, especially critical ones. They see the big picture on a grand scale when making decisions. Good public speakers and answer questions honestly with details. They're confident and brave. They take into consideration from other opinions before making a final decision. I can say more but point is, men and women can be great leaders and I've already experienced both in my life.

I'm getting tired of seeing these close minded generalization questions.

Ndyaaum · Answer

I'm going to disagree why? Because gender doesn't have anyting to do with how a person get stuff done. You are your own boss.. yes there are men that will say "women can't do this" but I will say if you put your mind into it trust me you will get it done in a effective way..

Dareu2bb · Answer

It depends what it is they are leading, this is just my view and I have been burned by both genders, going on my country New Zealand and our leader and a past leader but living in Australia for a little while now, I would have to say yes. I think that woman have a more empathetic nature and in general have their shit together more than us blokes, if all the guys take a second look at who runs the financial part of their relationship and keeps the whole thing going smoothly.. I think that answers a big part of this question.

dustybiker · Answer

I know a lot of woman who do not deserve the leadership role in a workplace setting, they abuse their power, take things out of perspective and make things personal. Equally male too (for same reasons). This is an individual thing. Leaders need to be able to think neutrally. Both genders are capable, but it takes more than that. So I wouldn’t say either gender is better.

TallAnon · Answer

These discussions are usually quite useless unless there's a good study done on the statistics.

"Leaders" is a vague term that's open to interpretation and has many different levels.

Talking about the manager of the local homeless shelter or the president of a country, both require very different skills.

Then there's levels of experience where we could also see differences, compare groups of people that have been in such a position for 1 year, 5 years and 20 years.

Science rarely gives us a straightforward answer, the best you will likely get is "In general, people of this gender fulling this particular position with this amount of experience managed to have a statistical advantage when evaluating them on these success criteria over this amount of time."

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

It’s invariably a different style and they often attack problems related to both management and leadership differently,

which is another key point, leadership is not management and management is not leadership (as such).

a lot comes down to style of leadership and motivation used to basically do the leading.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

Being a good leader involves being able to acclimate to many contradictory pieces of truth at the same time and being able to remain one step ahead of your employees in terms of intellectual performance and social management as well as maintaining an air of mystery to avoid being locked down or blamed, men are better at this than woman because men are more crafty and observant.

BCA6010 · Answer

Going to come down to individuals, but the main difference of reasonable consistence is that female leaders are much easier to address or even get confrontational with from a subordinate position, but they're also more likely to carry a petty grudge.

In my current business, both the best and worst of company leadership are women, while most of the men are at least average.

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes · Answer

I don't believe it is in any way gender specific, but individual capacity and capability specific.
If you define a leader as someone who cares for others (as well) and creates/provides/assures they also get (good) opportunities, that historically fits mostly with men, but next to most or even all of those men there also was a strong woman (in the end, leadership a parenting role, only done well by two opposite gender individuals who can get along to that level/work with and for each other and others, not each for themselves in the leaderless greed that has become quite frequent)

Anonymous · Answer

Why it is accepted on gag to call women weak, bad, terrible, useless, terrible leaders, trash etc. in the commentsection? If a woman call men terrible, trash she is a feminazi but boys-not men- who trashtalk women like this ain't incels/meninazis? What are they then? Now calling people incels who spread womanhate is a feminazi act. So much hypocrisy by incel community on gag
To your question i dont think women/men are better leaders.
Women tend to be passive and so many women ain't interested in being leaders. It does not make women weak if they dont want to be a leader. HOWEVER, if a woman really is interested in being a good leader, she could be. There is no scientific fact that does not allow women to be leaders. If she wants to be, she could be

Anonymous · Answer

"I've seen many studies proving that women are more suited leaders than men."

Really, can you provide links? The only "studies" I've seen claiming women make better leaders have been from feminist organizations or other left-leaning politically biased groups who are pushing an obvious social agenda.

If you want to know who makes the best leaders, look at the people who ARE the best leaders. The real world shows who actually makes good leaders, not politically biased "studies".

By the way, I've seen countless polls showing that men don't care whether their boss is a man or a woman but women DO care, and they prefer male bosses. Female bosses can be brutal to other females. Male bosses tend to be less catty and nasty to work for.

itsjustlew · Answer

I believe so since we aren’t driven by emotion and anger (with exceptions some women do have anger problems) without all the extra testosterone were able to resolve things peacefully unless we need to use force. Women tend to use their brains instead of their might.

MCheetah · Answer

No. Because women usually have less experience of staying cool under stress, being brave and tough, not buckling in to pressure from external forces, and making unpopular decisions based on logic for the good of everyone rather than emotion, they tend to be far worse leaders than men. Not that there aren't good female leaders out there.

GoldenAxer · Answer

I wonder about scale. There's a huge difference between the suitable qualities of a squad leader vs. a general. I'm skewed towards the empathetic end of the spectrum, like many girls.

And one of the problems with my leadership abilities in very large teams is that I get too concerned about the well-being of every single team member, and there are too many team members for me to avoid feeling overwhelmed. But I can be decent with a small team.

wittymilf · Answer

Oh it’s aunty Cindy!! :) she’s a better leader than any other leader we have ever had in NZ but we’ve had women before so it’s not her gender that makes her better it’s her ability to put people ahead of politics.

dmgstarfleet · Answer

Some but generally speaking no. They favor women employees, dismiss any problems with their leadership as men being sexist and confuse being professional with being humorless bitches. I’m not speaking of all women but generally. There are always exceptions.

Rachelspiks · Answer

"Many studies" you say, and yet you don't provide the link to a single one.

MountAverage · Answer

Wouldn't we need to have at least a remotely similar number of female leaders in the world to be able to determine that? But the interesting thing is, among the (comparably) few female leaders, there's a much higher percentage of competent ones. Anyway, I think overall it's safe to say that gender shouldn't really be an important factor in determining whether someone's a capable leader or not.

J2ohhhhh · Answer

According to my new favourite personality test (disc) only 3% of the population is D (ominant), which isn't about bossing over people but solving problems and communicating in a straightforward way. Many people just desire leadership positions because of the perks not because they wanna lead. So as many people in leadership positions don't really belong to there it is very difficult to conduct a survey that answer wich sex makes better leaders.

litty · Answer

There are women who are better than women. Companies or positions aren't just going to be handed to someone because someone is related (e. g. Ivanka Trump). Nope, that someone needs to have their shit together gain people's trust and respect like say Kamala Harris did.

The only thing is, women have had obstacles that have prevented them from taking leadership positions. But the ones that have rose to the top are shining examples.

SlightlyEccentric · Answer

Good leadership doesn't mean being man or woman. I've seen plenty of bad leaders who are men as well as women, as well as good leaders who are both men and women. Being a leader means being someone who others will look to when problems arise. Guide the people during times of trouble, let them rule themselves any other time.

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Studies also shows that there are male leaders better than those women leaders and also study shows that there are way more male leaders than female leaders. Studies also show that female leaders act like male leaders. Because it's so easy to abuse the words "studies shows" to make your claims seems more factual.

Irnwhdbsj · Answer

Only alpha women which are incredibly rare and in my dissapointment I've found I end up leading men much more. But overall, it depends on the situation can we stop similifying things so much and look at the raw individual when it comes to job titles?

DWornock · Answer

Of course not. Only in Western countries that have only existed for only a few hundred years would that question even be asked. More enlightened countries that have existed for thousands of years such as Iran, India, and most Asian countries, have learned that women are happiest when ruled by the men of the house or their husbands. Women are ruled by their emotions which makes them poor leaders while men are ruled by logic and as such are much better leaders.

This_Is_My_Opinion8 · Answer

Women can be great leaders. Ever heard of Catherine the Great? She was an amazing leader and visionary. Read a little about her it's just amazing. But, that doesn't make all women better leaders than men.
Ultimately it comes down to the person. Not the gender.

LogicBomber · Answer

Haha are you kidding?
Women are to emotionally driven which biased their choices and drives their decisions.
They do not posses the mental strength to be leaders.
Yes you will find feminist driven biased “studies” and gynocentric media pushing this girl power nonsense

haphazard · Answer

Depends on the field, each gender has its strengths and weaknesses, and to think otherwise is foolish. Additionally, nobody seems to believe you about these "studies" you're referencing. I get the feeling this is a troll post...

Hanrej · Answer

No!
Women still lack what I consider to be the most important aspect to a leader. That is to "lead by example".
Women don't fight wars, don't (usually) occupy jobs that put their lives in danger, don't work at expense to their health for other peoples betterment.

A woman who does would have my vote.

Stoner710 · Answer

Depends on the women but in general no, Women tend to act on emotion men tend to act on logic and reason. This doesn’t mean men don’t always react on logic and reason but where more likely to take that approach when it comes to making decisions

Mavie · Answer

I think its really different from one person to another some women are better leaders in some fields.. some men are better leaders in other leaders  I think it depends on the person, not on the gender

IHateBeingaMan · Answer

well people who defend and are masculininists, will always argue and say that men are built or natural born leaders or are supposed to be leaders, i never liked that, however, some people say thats because for the past couple of decades or more, they say or think that guys, men, have been socialized out of leadership behavior starting in their childhood

Lillie_xo · Answer

Sex doesn't really dictate whether somebody will be a good leader or not but if I had to say. . . Id say we haven't had enough female leaders to tell B)

Better_off_here · Answer

Women are better because they have a better head on their shoulders. Women tend to use their calm behavior to solve a problem. woman would be less intent on going to war and they would have a better understanding of many things guys just do not or can not.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

I believe there was a little study done where women were shown to be better leaders in times of crisis

Rajesh369 · Answer

Its said that women make a good Manger and men make a good leaders.

Women are good with process and Men are good with creativity and can't be on one thing for a long time, so the create, delegate and move on.

Men and Women co-exist, both needs each other. Need to respect that...

ohshee · Answer

To be honest with you I believe they are not in all things but there are many women out there capable be great leaders they have proven themselves to me for a long time

Friendlybro79 · Answer

I don't know for sure but I know for sure in my personal experience that some women are definitely better leaders and sometimes not. In an overall scope I'd be interested in data from multiple studies. It's a great question.

Mofunfour20 · Answer

How do you lead well with ego, emotions, and feelings? Men are more logically sound. Look up the difference between testosterone and estrogen, biology does not lie

invalid1 · Answer

It's true there are women leaders in human history who were successful. A lot of my male friends get offended and jealous by that 😬. But facts don't care about our feelings.

Lynx122 · Answer

So your 13 years of life experience in primary school have shown you that girls get things done more effectively?

Changiis07 · Answer

Yes and no. I do feel woman get things done because I notice it many times at work but guys also are good leaders. It might just depend on the person

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Kid, you are out of your fucking mind. Any "studies" you have seen were generated by angry feminist and not based in any fact.

Ask women if they would rather work for a man or a woman. Do you own research than report back

b5fan · Answer

Nope. In my experience women in leadership are more likely to be backstabbing and devious. Men are that way as well, but you do find a few inspirational leadership types. Rarely do you find that in a woman.

wtf636 · Answer

Both can be leaders. Depends on the person and the job type. No one cares.

Huldusonur · Answer

Don't just think in black and white. Some women make good leaders and some men make good leaders. It depends on the man or woman's individual characteristics and personality traits, it rarely, if ever, depends on their gender.

EyesOfGod · Answer

Wrong. Men are generally better leaders. Thats why there are so few women leaders because they are the most acceptable leaders of women, which may or may not be on the same level as the average male leader.

lucas262 · Answer

No. My 1 hang up with women voting or leading.

1st intelligence has nothing to do with it I believe that is a neutral thing anyone can read the same book.

I believe women are far more likely to cave on moral issues than men.

anylolone · Answer

Have you stopped to analyze such studies or do you just take what ever they say in the conclusion (worst, what ever journalists say about the study) at face value?

Historically women aren't better leaders than men, nor less prone to war.

Anonymous · Answer

I am curious to see the study. I don't think so. Women generally don't deal as well with stress as men.

Anonymous · Answer

Perhaps if better candidates were put forward, we would see whether or not women are just as good or better than men. AOC? Hillary? Harris? Are these really the best we have to offer? If so, then men are FAR better leaders.

hellacray · Answer

I'd say sometimes.  Problem is I think more women make decisions based on emotions than men. Which is not good when it comes to leadership roles.

FýrdracaDócincel · Answer

Most of the authority figures I've had who use deception and outright lying to get their way had vaginas. <Insert obligatory "But I don't know" here>

Ryfyle · Answer

@afia3 You're still a kid, and therefore, retarded. Here's the score, the "effectiveness" you see now isn't real and girls get cut a lot of slack. When real shit needs to get done, Men are expected to take charge and get things done.

Subarugirl · Answer

I think it depends on the person, everyone has different strengths.

najekim · Answer

Not always. I know of one lady who got a supervisors position but gave it up after a year because she couldn't handle what was required for the position. She's happily back doing what she did before becoming a supervisor.

Anonymous · Answer

As a sweeping generalisation, I don't believe this. I'm sure there are some great women leaders but there's no reason to believe they are any better or worse than men. Apparently some women leads are tyrants. But we can say the same of some men.

Rangers · Answer

No, terrible leaders. They're emotional democrats most of them, which are both automatic disqualifiers for being a good leader

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