The amount of men who believe women are represented well enough in leadership positions has dropped since the last time we reported on the survey topic almost one year ago. This suggests that a year of news stories and reports highlighting employment and wage disparities for women may have had a real effect on the opposite sex.
When asked the question, “Do you think there are enough females in leadership positions at your company?” men responded “yes” 58% of the time, meaning that 42% of men DON’T believe there are enough women working in leadership positions at their company. That’s only two points higher than female respondents themselves, just 56% of whom thought women were well-represented among leadership at their workplace. This info comes from the latest reading of an ongoing study by Comparably. More than 10,000 have replied to the query.
There are slight but notable variations when the data is looked at from the standpoint of various ethnicities. African-American respondents voted “yes” (that there are enough women in leadership positions) highest among ethnicities, and higher than either men or women when separated by gender (as above.) On the other end of the spectrum, Asians and Pacific Islanders voted “yes” less frequently than any other group at 49%.
Those aged 31-35 were least satisfied with the amount of women in the workplace.Age brackets before and after that one conform with overall results. The discrepancy may identify, via the 31-35 age bracket, the grouping for whom women’s iniquities in the American workforce are most at the forefront of concerns. Results spike in the other direction for 61-65, the age group closest to traditional retirement age, perhaps illustrating a major generational shift in thinking.
There’s a major drop off in responses when filtered by education level.For those with a high school degree, some college, or an Associate’s degree, responses hung around the low-to-mid 60-percent level, slightly higher than overall average when all responses are accounted for. However, there’s a sharp drop to the lower 50s from responders who identified as Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral degree. This indicates either a glass ceiling for women in jobs attracting the more educated, or a greater sense of gender iniquities among the more educated.
