Why companies are better off hiring Women Bosses

A Newspaper article in the Business Daily written by Scott Bellows an assistant professor at the Chandaria School of Business in USIU AfricaFemales have long-term focus while men tend to focus on short-term gains. They are more loyal to firm and improve returns.In honour of the just passed Day of the Girl, Business Talk hereby provides its annual assessment of gender issues in management and leadership with advances in social sciences research.As access to equal education, anti-discrimination laws and customs, and gender-based awareness improves throughout East Africa, research sees steady improvement in the equitable situation of women in our society. In fact researcher Gary Powell found that in nearly every country across the globe, women continue to make gains by reaching more managerial ranks. However, the business community lags behind civil society and government employment. Sadly males still enjoy greater favour for employment and make up over 75 per cent of corporate board positions.Debate over the benefits or hindrances of female workplace empowerment permeate social science literature over the past 50 years. Recent research uncovered growing acceptance from employees about the desirability of female bosses. Employees used to not desire female managers. But now in many countries, populations prefer a woman as their leader instead of a man. However, Kenyan women often stand as the biggest hindrance to female empowerment in workplaces as shown in recent focus groups that they do not desire to work for a lady manager at a higher rate than men prefer to work for a female supervisor