Do women make better bosses?

Alan Lander reports in the Sunshine Coast Daily on a heated discussion on 14 June in his local community. Do women make better bosses? We’ve long argued at TomorrowToday (see our “World of Women” presentation) that women should be taking more of a lead in the 21st century. But we don’t mean that they should step into the testosterone driven, male dominated world of current reality. That would be playing men’s games like men. Rather, they should stpe up and start leading like women – actually changing the game. They should also be more gender inclusive – but they will be. So, as you read the report online here, or below, we actually side with both positions. Women should lead THEIR way, and not be drawn into a male leadership role. But they must lead, and men must learn to lead like them, too.
IT was fire-engine red lippy and re-discovered shoulder pads at 10 paces last night as teams lined up to debate the issue Do Women Make Better Bosses?

A fiery subject, and even more intriguing with both team leaders being women.

The debate, hosted by the Sunshine Coast Business Women’s Network, was chaired by Maroochy mayor Joe Natoli at Twin Waters Resort last night.

Leader of the “pro� team, Sue Schroter, thought the debate was over before it had begun – in fact, it wasn’t even worth having.

“Well it’s not really a debate, is it?� she ventured.

Feisty words, indeed.

“The term ‘boss’ means leader and manager, as per the Oxford English Dictionary. In society, we’re taught to see males as dominant, and with testosterone running through their veins, it assumes they’re better bosses,� Ms Schroter said.But history says otherwise.

“It was Eve who had the balls to take a bite of the apple, after all. If we’d left it to Adam, we’d still be wearing fig leafs and talking to the monkeys.

“Women have more cells – as we know – and are much faster at transferring data, therefore we are more flexible and find it easier to multi-task. It positions them better to be bosses,� Ms Schroter said.

Leading the “anti� team was Sue Willis, who had vowed to don a tinfoil-wrapped helmet for the duration of the debate.

“It’s a brainwashing device,� she said, ensuring that no one was in any doubt of her lack of belief in her own argument – but a debate’s a debate, and someone had to take the contrary side.

“Why, given there are more females who vote in the USA than men, do they never vote a female president in?� she offered, through clenched teeth.

“And a Griffith University report on women bullying in the workplace showed the cost to industry was between six and 16 billion dollars.

“Why is it that after 35 years of fighting for equality, more women can’t break through the glass ceiling? Maybe they’re just not up to it,� Ms Willis added.

But the protagonists did agree on the existence of one thing – although they interpreted it differently.

“Yes, men do have brains 10% bigger than women’s. But while ‘bigger is better’ for women at times, this is not one of them,� Ms Schroter said.

“Men have an auxiliary brain, too, of course, and have been known to think with it on occasion,� Ms Willis countered.

But Ms Schroder did concede that men were showing some evolutionary promise.

“They’ve come a long way; they can use the TV remote and drink beer at the same time,� she said.

And the outcome?

In the interests of future psychological, physical and domestic wellbeing, this reporter declines to comment …

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