Are girls very discriminated against in the workplace?

McKinsey’s research found that there are four main factors that hinder women’s career journey:

First, the biggest obstacle is the rigid and rigid employee evaluation system;

Secondly, the double burden of work and family on the shoulders of professional women;

Thirdly, the lack of outstanding female role models;

Fourthly, the problems in every aspect from recruitment, promotion to training There is a lack of supporting measures, as well as some implicit or unconscious biases. For example, male supervisors tend to give men higher marks during appraisals.

DDI, a well-known talent research institution, found that Tondo’s Global Leadership Outlook research in the past few years confirmed that factors hindering the progress of female leaders include the following factors:

1. Growth Factors - The most typical example of women's lack of leadership training since childhood is that the games played by boys and girls in childhood are very different, which affects their behavior in adulthood. In girls' games, there is rarely the concept of "leadership". For example, the common "playing house" game for girls is weakly confrontational. In such role-playing games, girls do not need to order or obey, as long as they play themselves well. Everyone is happy with the characters. Boys' games are often full of "struggle". Most of the games are highly confrontational. Whether it is ball sports or adventure games, these games are a hothouse for cultivating "leadership". Games usually require forming a group to compete with another group. , has a consistent external meaning, and there will always be a leader role. Of course, there are also objections, because most people think that the girl they grew up with has always been a class leader or a top student. However, "class leader or top student" cannot be equated with "leadership".

2. Personality factors - women pay more attention to interpersonal relationships and men pay more attention to tasks. Ye Gambler, a doctor of experimental psychology, wrote in the Zhihu article "Are female leadership inherently worse than men's?" Could it be caused by "stereotypes"? " said: "Generally speaking, we have very stereotyped ideas about the leadership abilities of men and women. Women's leadership style is more interpersonally oriented, while men are more task-oriented. Loden (1985) proposed the concept of masculinity The leadership and management style of women is composed of competitiveness, hierarchical authority, a high degree of power concentration among leaders, unemotional, and a focus on problem solving and analysis, while women tend to be more feminine. The factors that lead to this preference are co-operativeness, friendly cooperation between leaders and subordinates, delegation of authority by leaders, and the coexistence of intuition, empathy and rationality. There are many. One theory is that it is caused by the difference in hormones between men and women, or it is caused by the different ways men and women view things. Another theory is that it is caused by the expectations of male and female leaders in the work environment or social environment. of. It should be noted that these analyzes only talk about the differences in leadership between men and women, but cannot distinguish between the leadership abilities of men and women.

3. Time factor - women do too much housework. According to an analysis of 66 studies on time allocation by researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK, it was found that from 1961 to 2011, among the surveyed In 19 countries and regions, women are the main contributors to housework, doing an average of two hours more housework per day than men. Domestically, Zhaopin’s “2018 China Women’s Workplace Situation Survey Report” shows that Chinese women devote 15% more time to family than men, and 9% less time to work than men. After entering marriage, the time devoted to family continues. increase.

4. Work factors - women consider family factors too much. According to a report by Zhaopin.com, among the primary considerations in job selection, Chinese women’s top consideration is “convenience to and from get off work”, while men’s top consideration The most important thing is "the ability to grow and develop", and women's choice of "convenient commuting to and from get off work", which inadvertently narrows the radius of women's choice of jobs, and may result in the loss of potential excellent job opportunities.

To briefly summarize, the main reasons for the absence of women in senior leadership are: first, prejudice, which refers to stereotypes in society and the workplace; second, preference, which refers to the lack of training and correct orientation in "female leadership."