Citation:

Krotz, Joanna L. "Women Make Better Corporate Leaders." Male and Female Roles , edited by Karen Miller,
Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context ,
link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010151276/OVIC?u=asuniv&xid=29182d81. Accessed 23 Jan. 2017.
Originally published as "Do Women Make Better Managers?" Microsoft Small Business Center, 2006
Source summary:
This article explains why women make great corporate leaders. It discusses generalizations that have been
made in the workforce and makes an argument on why women would outperform men as a corporate
leader.
Quotes:
The upshot for chief executives should be to move over to the "female" side of management,
whether you're a thoroughgoing left-brainer or a woman trying to manage "male." Turns out, girls
can do it better.
By communicating goals more readily and expressing appreciation more often, women tend to be
better at making staffers feel recognized and rewarded. That translates into cost-effective staffing
and recruiting.
"Women managers tend to have more of a desire to build than a desire to win," says Debra Burrell,
a psychological social worker and regional training director of the Mars-Venus Institute in New York.
"Women are more willing to explore compromise and to solicit other people's opinions." By contrast,
men often think if they ask other people for advice, they'll be perceived as unsure or as a leader
who doesn't have answers, according to Burrell.
Sources significance:
This source is significant because it provides a good argument as to how the workplace would benefit from
having a female leader.

Citation:
Nemko, Marty. "Men Are More Successful Because They Make Their Careers a Priority." Male and Female
Roles, edited by Karen Miller, Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in
Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010151275/OVIC?u=asuniv&xid=bc9977bb. Accessed 23 Jan.
2017. Originally published as "The Real Reason So Few Women Are in the Boardroom," MartyNemko.com,
2009.
Source Summary:
This source discusses why men make better corporate leaders than women. The main point is that women
view work as a balance with their family life while mens lives revolve around work. The author says that he
would hire a women, but that her values would have to revolve around work.
Quotes:
I don't care whether my executives have a Y-chromosome, but I want their priority not to be
work-life balance, but rather helping my company to ethically develop the best products in the
world.
For the reasons stated at the outset, if I were a CEO, I would certainly want to hire women in senior
positions, but only those with a proven track record of having put in long hours at work and in
professional development, and who could be counted on to continue doing so. Those are the same
criteria I would use to evaluate male candidates.
All this doesn't surprise me. Having been career coach to 2,000 professional clients, 2/3 female, I
know that more women than men prioritize work/life balance, wanting more time for family, home,
friends, and recreation.
Sources Significance:
This is a good argument as to why men make better leaders in the workplace than women.
Citation:
McNutt, Lindsay. "The Glass Ceiling Has Never Existed." Feminism, edited by Christina Fisanick,
Greenhaven Press, 2008. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context,
link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010122248/OVIC?u=asuniv&xid=7aa7683a. Accessed 23 Jan. 2017.
Originally published as "The Glass Ceiling: It Can't Be Shattered If It Doesn't Exist," www.ifeminists.com, 17
Dec. 2002.
Source Summary:
This source believes the glass ceiling has never existed and is a concept made by feminists. McNutt says
that women are already accepted into the workplace and must work harder to get bigger titles.
Quotes:
Women have been accepted into the job market, college educational settings and as vital parts of
society. The only glass ceiling that might have existed before was one that women had put up
themselves by measures like affirmative action and extreme feminist groups. The only way to break
the glass ceiling is keep striking harder and harder, but you have to strike with the fragments of the
extreme groups that need to be dismantled.
There will always be prejudice in business, education and society. But there is no reason to dream
up these male-led conspiracies that are aimed at denying women chances for advancement.
Because our society is imperfect, there will always be discrimination.
Also, women work less total hours than men, work fewer years, have less experience, and avoid
dangerous jobs that accumulate a higher salary. There are feminists who focus on wages and
promotions as the measure of how successful women are in society. They don't realize that there
are women who are happy being homemakers and the economic importance of being a
homemaker. If they acknowledged this, it would undermine the whole mission of their cause, which
is to prove that women are forced to be homemakers because they can't land jobs in corporate
America.
Sources Significance:
This source is significant because it believes that women have a lesser chance of getting corporate roles
because society wont let it. There is a tone to this essay that suggests women should stop trying to form
large groups and be comfortable where they stand.

Reflection:
All three of the sources acknowledged that there is a gender gap in corporate positions. The sources rooted
this differences in the history of women in the workplace. The differences in the articles was whether women
in leadership roles is a positive or negative thing. Something that none of the essays had much to comment
on was different ways to close the wage gap and how to help women gain more leadership roles.

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