{"id":559,"date":"2014-12-22T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2014-12-22T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T13:00:16","slug":"are-women-better-decision-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/are-women-better-decision-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Women Better Decision Makers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/are-women-better-decision-makers.html?_r=0\">recent article in the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> by Therese Huston says yes!\u2014women are better decision makers in stressful situations. Huston cites research by several neuroscientists that shows that in low-stress situations, women and men make decisions about risk in similar ways. When stress is introduced, however, women bring some unique strengths to the table that result in better decisions. Here are some examples of the positive impact women have had:\n\n\n<ul>\n\t\n\n<li>Credit Suisse examined 2,400 global corporations from 2005 to 2011, which includes the years just before and after the financial crisis, and found that companies with at least one woman on their board outperformed comparable companies with all-male boards by 26 percent.<\/li>\n\n\n\t\n\n<li>Several studies show that investments run by female hedge-fund managers outperformed those run by male managers.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<!--more-->\nWhat are some of the unique strengths that women bring to decision making in stressful situations? Huston cites research that shows\n\n\n<ul>\n\t\n\n<li>Women are <em>more attuned to the needs of others<\/em> in stressful situations, while men become more egocentric.<\/li>\n\n\n\t\n\n<li>Women under stress <em>take less risk<\/em>. They look for smaller, surer successes that produce better long-term results, while men under stress take big risks when the chances of success are low.<\/li>\n\n\n\t\n\n<li>Women under stress tend to <em>look for common ground<\/em>. Remember the women of the United States Senate who were able to bridge the divide between Democrats and Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2013\/10\/16\/women-are-the-only-adults-left-in-washington\/\">to end the government shutdown<\/a> in 2013?<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe problem is that women often don\u2019t get brought in as leaders to high-risk situations until the organization is already in a crisis\u2014think about Mary Barra at General Motors. Organizations and governments need more gender balance at the top before they are in a crisis\u2014to prevent the crises from occurring. Want good decisions in stressful times? Hire and promote more women!]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110,116,117,221,225,361,567,634],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-coaching","tag-competition","tag-confidence","tag-friendship","tag-gender","tag-management","tag-teamwork","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}