{"id":3573,"date":"2018-03-20T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2018-03-19T21:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:24:19","slug":"56-of-people-prefer-to-work-with-women-over-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/56-of-people-prefer-to-work-with-women-over-men\/","title":{"rendered":"56% of People Prefer to Work With Women Over Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As companies continue to\u00a0focus on increasing\u00a0gender diversity within their ranks, a\u00a0query of more than 5,000 workers across the tech industry shows that both men and women slightly prefer to work with women over men.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-six percent of men and women say they prefer to work with women over men, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/134-do-you-prefer-to-work-with-women-or-men\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3574 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/56-women.jpg\" alt=\"56% women\" width=\"526\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/56-women-300x32.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/56-women.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 85vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Little difference from a diversity perspective<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The responses of workers of various ethnic groups were very similar. Fifty-eight percent of African American respondents say they prefer to work with women over men, just slightly more than any other ethnic group. Hispanic\/Latino respondents had the lowest rate, at 54%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3575 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/women-DIV.jpg\" alt=\"women DIV\" width=\"504\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/women-DIV-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/women-DIV.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 85vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>18 to 25-year-olds are most likely to say they prefer working with women<\/b><\/p>\n<p>People 18 to 25 had the highest rates of saying they prefer to work with women (61%). The rate slowly declined from there, hitting a low of 52% among workers aged 51 to 55.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3576 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/women.jpg\" alt=\"women\" width=\"376\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/women-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/women.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 85vw, 376px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Data is as of March 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As companies continue to\u00a0focus on increasing\u00a0gender diversity within their ranks, a\u00a0query of more than 5,000 workers across the tech industry shows that both men and women slightly prefer to work with women over men. Fifty-six percent of men and women say they prefer to work with women over men, according to the latest reading of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/56-of-people-prefer-to-work-with-women-over-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}