In Michaela Quinn’s blog about the gender equality, she discusses how to motivate female employees and achieve the gender equality on workplace.

For the most part, I agree with Michaela’s perspective that having children has a huge impact on a woman’s decision to keep working or to stay home. She mentioned that company could offer gender equal benefits to make female workers’ life easier. But what I actually want to say is why the company need to think about get benefits for female workers and attract more and more female employees become workforce.

In the last years, we have witnessed major changes in social attitudes towards women in the workforce and management positions. Six decades ago, a Gallup study showed that 66% of working adults preferred to work for a male manager and only 5% preferred a female boss.

Come modern times and another Gallup study, and the numbers may take us by surprise: 33% of adult respondents said they preferred a male boss and 20% answered they most definitely preferred a female manager.

Those research clearly shows that female employees become more and more popular, but why?

Based on common sense and daily experience alone, parents of girls will tell you that girls performed better in school environments since early ages than boys did.

A study conducted at the University of Georgia and Columbia University showed that girls possess a set of traits that go beyond the realm of cognitive performances (attention, memory, etc.) and the realm of what we commonly call “intelligence.” Girls perform better in school and become better learners because of their attitude towards the act of learning.

In other words, girls, young and mature women present higher levels of learning eagerness, task persistence, learning independence, better work organization, flexibility and engagement with the topics learned.

Having a pro-active approach towards learning and being better at organizing, women tend to become better employees as they understand the tasks at hand faster. However, if you were a child prodigy in school, this doesn’t mean your traits and natural skills will hold forever if you don’t keep your edge.

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Work cited:

Sandberg, S. (2010, December 21). Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html

Why Girls Do Better in School. (2015, October 06). Retrieved April 01, 2017, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2013/01/05/why-girls-do-better-in-school/50050.html