https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/03/17/are-successful-women-really-less-likable-than-successful-men/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 03:23:51 -0400<![CDATA[Maybe not. A 2011 study published in Human Relations surveyed 60,000 full-time workers on their attitudes toward male versus female managers. At first, its conclusions seem to bolster Sandberg&#8217;s claim that people are more accepting of successful men than successful women: Of the 46 percent of respondents who expressed a preference for their boss&#8217;s gender, 72 percent said they wanted a male manager. But another aspect of the results highlights a flaw in the Heidi/Howard study: People who actually had female managers did not give them lower ratings than people who had male managers. That is, though many people preferred male managers in theory, in practice those gender biases did not play out.]]>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:10:18 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/03/17/are-successful-women-really-less-likable-than-successful-men-n100954