Why companies need female managers

I looked up the BBC news about female managers in the U.S. It shows why companies need female managers. Helen Fisher, who is American anthropologist from Rutgers University, explains the difference between men and women for companies. She found evidence from MRI brain scans, genetics and large-scale surveys. Fisher said women were common in the workforce in prehistoric time providing 60-80% of evening meal but after the plough was invented the power balance shifted. Over Millennia of evolution women and men became different. Testosterone is the cause and will make men focus on details in life. Helen Fisher thinks that it is important for managers to have both men and women in work force because they complement each other. An example is combining the long-term thinking of women with the short term focus of men.

This article was very interesting to me because I am one of woman, who wants to work in a company. Many women worker do not contented where they are in a company. Usually, women get less salary than men even thought they have same position. In addition, some of companies do not want to hire women worker, especially if they have children. Companies’ point of view is that sometimes women worker cannot focus to their work because of their children. However, as many people know, there are many advantages for women in some companies which have good environment for work. They have a kind of nursery school inside a company, so women worker keep in eye on their children when they have break time. In other words, they can focus more to their company stuff. I’ll talk about a little bit about the history or hormone system, but I want to focus on business more that is about why many companies do not want to hire women worker in the past.
This article shows the hormone makes the difference between women and men, therefore there are many kinds of task, what women can do well or men can do well. I hope we can discuss more about those things in a class tomorrow.

1) Do you think companies want to hire women?
2) Think about advantages and disadvantage to hire women workers for a company.
3) What is hiring women like in the companies outside of the U.S.?
4) Why many companies do not want to avoid women workers?