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A new survey looking at the working styles of men and women reveals that 45 percent of working women agreed with the statement that women have to be better than men to succeed in the workplace. In contrast, only 26 percent of the men questioned believe this to be true. The survey also found that more than half of the men (53 percent) view ability as more important than personality in the workplace, while only 39 percent of women rate ability in the workplace higher than personality.
The Style of the Sexes survey, jointly commissioned by Cisco and Gender IQ, addresses issues such as how conflict is dealt with in the workplace, which factors men and women consider important in a job, whether job concerns are shared with co-workers, and whether employees prefer to work in teams of mostly men or mostly women. While the findings indicate that real differences exist in how men and women deal with aspects of their work, organizations that seek to better understand and respect differences in the workplace get the best out of their employees and teams.
The makeup of teams. The majority of both men and women (88 percent) prefer to work in roughly equally mixed teams. However, both men and women preferred working in mostly male teams (21.6 percent) rather than mainly female teams (8.1 percent).
On what's important. Generally speaking, women are more demanding than men about what is important in a job, with 79 percent saying getting training is important, compared with 73 percent of men, and 75 percent seeking flexible hours, compared with 69 percent of the men. The only areas that more men than women find important are chances of promotion and benefits beyond pay.
Pay ranked first in importance for women, with equipment second. An interesting job role shared third place with flexibility in work location or the ability to work from home. Men rated pay and equipment as most important, followed by an interesting role and flexible work location or the ability to work from home. Having a role model was least important for both men and women.
Dealing with conflict. Women are far more likely to have experienced conflict in the workplace: 55 percent stated they've faced conflict compared with 46 percent of men. Women take longer to recover from conflict as well: 41 percent of those who had experienced conflict said it took more than a month to recover; 25 percent of the men needed more than a month to recover.
In a conflict situation, men and women also respond differently: 73 percent of the men said they would confront the situation face to face, compared with 63 percent of the women. Women are also more likely to ask for intervention, with 59 percent likely to talk to their manager and 39 percent likely to report the situation to HR, compared with 52 percent and 35 percent of the men, respectively.
Source: Cisco.
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