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Is being a woman an advantage?

October 22, 2012

Ava Feuer from Redbook recently shared an article, The Top 10 Workplace Advantages of Being a Woman. In this piece, Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson, co-authors of How Women Lead: The 8 Essential Strategies Successful Women Know, explain why women’s leadership styles are the styles of the future.

The Top 10 Workplace Advantages of Being a Woman are:

  1. Women know how to use rewards effectively.
  2. Women include everyone in the conversation.
  3. Women respect individual differences.
  4. Women see the big picture.
  5. Women ask the experts for their insight.
  6. Women ask the right questions.
  7. Women are willing to share the credit.
  8. Women consider how decisions will affect others.
  9. Women are expert multitaskers.
  10. Women don’t get aggressive.

To read the full article, click here>>

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