Workers indicate a growing preference for female bosses

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Vanessa Fuhrmans looks at how female bosses have made gains this year. She says the most powerful recent shift may be that after years of favoring male leaders by sizable margins, workers now indicate a growing preference for female bosses in their daily work life. Given the choice, more women under 50 said they would choose to work for a woman than a man, while men in their twenties were nearly evenly split on their preference, according to an August survey of nearly 6,000 U.S. adults by the Survey Center on American Life. A decade ago, far greater numbers of workers said in Gallup surveys that they preferred working for a man, and fewer than half were neutral on the matter. In the August survey, two-thirds said they had no preference between a male or female manager.