Women Are Better Leaders as CEOs

According to a study conducted by Duke University researchers, women are "better leaders than men" in top jobs.

Professor Ashleigh Rosette and grad student Leigh Plunkett Tost led the study where 323 graduate and undergraduate students evaluated fictitious newspaper reports about male and female CEOs.

They found that when the newspaper articles portrayed women CEOs as successful and gave them credit for that success, the students evaluated them more favorably - as both more competent and more relational - than comparable male CEOs.

So, the study was to have a bunch of people read stories and decide who in the stories were the better leaders. It's not known who wrote the fictitious newspaper articles but it is suggested that they were biased. Arguably, female academics would be prone to author studies which indicate women are more capable than men.

In an unrelated and undocumented review conducted by this writer, it has been found that predetermined conclusions often prompt the launching of supporting studies.

Similarly, it's suggested that end-of-the-world prognosticators, such as global warmists and Malthusians, typically base their doomsday conclusions on fictitious, incomplete or inaccurate research data. Interestingly, ideologues in academia are frequently the authors of those studies also.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.