Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Males bosses are better? There are many exceptions!

http://www.news.com.au/business/business-smarts/women-bosses-a-nightmare-finds-survey/story-e6frfm9r-1225904707948

To be honest, to discuss male or female who is better in the workplace, is not a new topic to me, who took sociology as one of the majors in the first degree.
However, this article attract my attention because it showed the very simple conclusion in its title that, male are better.
After reading this whole article, I found that what the article really discuss is different. What some survey really showed was that , sometimes female manager were less popular because of the characteristics of females' personalities.
Don't you think journalism should not put misleading information in the title because sometimes the title is the like the hypothesis. Some readers only read the title. And this article is very sensitive to the women.  

Dear Author,journalists have the responsibility make sure that his published article are ethical.
When I was study social research method, I was taught that there was rule for every sociologists that to avoid make hypothesis which might have negative impacts to the society. It means, to help to society to operate in the right track is an very important issues for every human being.



On the other hand, I think the result of this social research still need to be discussed with analysing other factors which make the female managers are less popular in the workplace.

Is it because of the predominance of the male manager? ( Male's manager's working style has probably been the standard) Is it because of the average education background of female? Is it because of other social responsibility of female?

If other factors such like these do have effect to the popularity of female bosses' popularity, then the problem is not only about being a female; the problem would be discussed in the further level. 

If you want to report some sociological economic survey result, please choose a decent survey.

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