Do Men Really Work Harder Than Women?

Okay, here's you're clinkers.

Question 1: In less hours, are these women truly LESS productive, or just LEAST SEEN at the workplace? And is SEEN in the workplace really more important than who is doing what and getting what done?

Question 2: Has the partnership of having a family ever really been equalized in our society? Or does Mom still carry the brunt, and Dad still excused for time off from family for work?

Question 3: With so many "stay at home" dads, these days, is there true partnership in raising children and carrying a household and a productive JOB?

Question 4: And this is my most important one, and this is TOTALLY from personal experience, do MEN get UPPER MANAGEMENT jobs despite their apparent laziness, apparent attraction to more PERSONAL issues, SLIDE BY with the company simply because THEY ARE MEN?

MY CONTENTION is that UPPER MIDDLE MANAGEMENT jobs are still held by men who are really more concerned about their personal life, and STAY in those jobs because they are more concerned about their personal life. THOSE upper middle managment jobs CAN'T be gotten by females who could do those jobs HANDS DOWN, without a pause, better and more efficiently EVEN THOUGH they have personal obligations. MY contention, is that JUST LET US INTO UPPER MIDDLE MANAGEMENT--forget the CEO jobs, the BIG stuff. Those are left to A Personality, Self Centered Assholes. I GET THAT. BUT UPPER MIDDLE MANAGEMENT--that's where the REAL glass ceiling is. 

I'm serious about this. I live in a world where, YES, I don't want to be CEO. I don't want to dedicate my life to a company. BUT, I see assholes in front of me who couldn't bother to change their hair appointment, and are MEN, who have positions and salaries that I can't even touch. WHY? Because they are men.

Judging a person's success by where they are at on the ladder is an antiquated way of viewing the world. Who says they are more successful, work harder or are more "ambituous". Many of us on the "bottom" are defining success by our OWN terms and for us success means having the kind of jobs that allow us to have LIVES! If given the choice between doing what I do now and enjoying the benefits of having strong friends and familial relationships and making a six figure salary and having no close relationships, I'll take the former any day!

As the only female in my company's executive team, I certainly have strong opinions about this issue based on my own experiences. The men on my team would support me when I say that I am one of the most hard-working people in our company. I work a minimum of 60 hours/week and am always available to discuss business on the weekends if necessary. It's my decision as a business leader to work this hard in order to ensure the ongoing success of our company. I love what I do and I'm driven by more than just personal success and the thought of the next promotion...it's the team success that motivates me. Does this make me the minority among female business executives. I don't think so.

Today's businesses are doing much more with less...which means everyone has to work hard. If that means working hard 8 hours/day or 14 hours/day - the goal is efficiency and productivity....so perhaps the next study should ask "Who works Smarter...not Harder."

Apparently the first writer believes that SHOUTING is the only way to get noticed. As a means of getting a point across it borders on old and immature, and probably is characteristic of a style that prevents her success. Having said that, I suspect that years of being at the wrong end of ineffectual and discriminatory management practices at the hands of idiots could easily elevate a woman's anger.

As a male having suffered through 3 different industries for over 22 years, I've learned one thing: We have what we want!

Women must make choices and not blame the males for their choices - whether it's to remain a part-time mom, lifestyle, or balance. Believe it or not, us men are in the same predicament, just perhaps different. Competition effects everyone. Trying to climb the corporate ladder can be physically, emotional, and mentally draining. When there were times that I couldn't stand the heat, I got out of the kitchen - my choice. I chose to leave because I either didn't have the skills, or energy or realized it wasn't worth it. There were times when it had nothing to do with my talent or lack there of, but the rules had changed and nepotism and myopic vision of 'assholes' was the new order of the day...in which case I chose to walk away - their loss :) ...but my choice.

Through the years, having watched and listened, in various senior management roles, I carefully constructed a style that would be more objective with strong method. Being in a position to hire, promote and fire, the only discrimination I invoked was during performance reviews - which in my opinion should be everyday - my thought was, "who's able to keep up?" Shareholders don't care that 'his mother is ill', or 'she's pregnant'. Life is rough, but without actually believing that, that is the reality, regardless if you have a heart.

At hiring, I primarily used two criterion: Do they have the skills? And, what is their ability to deal with the stresses of the job. When two people come to the table with the exact same skill set, then the only thing you can hire on, and by extension, to promote, is the latter. As the recruit, as a male or female, your choice has to be made and then carried out. Over time, your quality-of-life demands may change, just as the demands of the role do, but you can't expect the employer to modify their demands for you. At which point you must make a decision...put in the extra effort or walk-away!

I cannot believe my own magazine provided space to the results of this study. My ability to believe anything anyone says erodes when the English language is corrupted as in the above quote: "The men who don't do as well in the workplace happen to be more feminine, just as the women who do the worse happen to be more masculine." First of all, one has to do the worst and secondly, doesn't it follow that women who exhibit 'masculine' qualities should do better than men who happen to be more 'feminine'? For every guy who works hard, there's one who 'delegates' and takes the credit...call me cynical, but I think this study is all wet.

what about men being lazy i know alot of guys who i work with r lazy and have the women do the harder thingb but i help them out because they struggle but r determined even though i'm a teeenager i'm not as lazy as the guys i work it might be because i have more stamina being young or just wanting to do more with my life

I actually believe that seperate spheres should still exist for men and women as Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought during the Enlightenment time period. Although times change, it only seems natural with women's character for them to be the caretakers of the household. I agree that men are more ambitious but I think that certain women are exceptions and should be able to join the numbers of men who take on high level jobs. I think that when we judge people by their sex we are actually degrading ourselves and not the other sex. Just because people's bodies are slightly different that they must focus on one type of lifestyle. However, like I said, women need to maintain the home structure because I can't see men being able to do it nor wanting to do so anyway.