{"id":4725,"date":"2017-11-24T11:43:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2017-11-24T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:44:49","slug":"women-are-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/women-are-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Women are boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I haven’t had many bosses. Frankly I am not very good at working for other people –\u00a0 I got fired from my my first job stocking shelves at Budgens because of “bad attitude”. I got fired from my job as a reporter at Computing because I swore directly at the editor of the magazine when I was drunk at a Christmas party. I am not proud of these things.<\/p>\n

One boss that really stands out though is Sarah Aryanpur Burgess. She was a great mentor. She could be hard, but was always fair. Encouraging, solid, plenty of feedback. She would stretch us as a team, but not too far. We all felt she had our back. I thought of Sarah when I came across this intriguing piece of polling by Gallup –\u00a0Americans No Longer Prefer Male Boss to Female Boss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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55% of Americans have no preference about the gender of their boss
\nMen (68%) are more likely than women (44%) to lack preference
\nWomen under 50 prefer a female boss; women 50 and older divided<\/p>\n

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“So for\u00a0the first time since Gallup began measuring Americans’ preferences about the gender of their boss, a majority say their boss’ gender makes no difference to them.”<\/p>\n

This polling feels like overwhelmingly positive news to me. It’s been such a tough couple of years politically, that sometimes it feels we’re not making any progress as a culture. But hopefully we are. Maybe a lot of the awfulness is just a Reaction to all the progress we’re making.<\/p>\n

Men are being held to account for sexual harassment. That’s a huge positive in 2017.<\/p>\n

And it’s pleasing here we are at the end of the year and it’s becoming a normal idea to Americans that they might have a woman boss.<\/p>\n

“Americans younger than 35 prefer a female boss over a male boss by 14 points, while half say they have no preference.”<\/p>\n

Maybe it won’t be too long before we get a woman in the White House. I’d love to think that part of Hilary Clinton’s legacy might be that she helped normalise the idea of a woman running for President. I’d have preferred it if she won, but in the grand sweep of history perhaps her role is indeed about breaking through glass ceilings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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