{"id":706,"date":"2017-06-05T21:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2017-06-14T14:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:19:15","slug":"women-feedback-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-feedback-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Are Less Comfortable Giving Negative Feedback to Their Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s never easy telling your manager that he or she is doing something\u00a0wrong,\u00a0but women seem to have a harder time of it than men.<\/p>\n

Women are less into it<\/b><\/p>\n

Fifty-eight percent of women say they are comfortable\u00a0with giving negative feedback to their boss compared with 64% of men, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably<\/a>. The\u00a0data came from the responses of more than 1,000 men and women in the technology industry.<\/p>\n

By\u00a0department<\/b><\/p>\n

Women in executive roles, engineering, and customer support were\u00a0the most comfortable with giving their boss negative feedback, while women in business development and legal were the least comfortable.<\/p>\n

On the flipside, men in\u00a0HR and customer support were the most comfortable with giving their boss negative feedback while men in legal were overwhelmingly the least comfortable. (Less than 40% of men and women in legal were comfortable giving their boss negative feedback.)<\/p>\n

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By age<\/b><\/p>\n

Sixty-six percent of workers aged 36 to 40\u00a0said they were comfortable giving feedback to the boss — the most of any age group. Workers younger\u00a0and older than that were generally less comfortable, particularly among those 18 to 25 and 41 to 45.<\/p>\n

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The more educated you are, the less comfortable you are<\/b><\/p>\n

Sixty-nine percent of employees with a high school education level said they were comfortable giving their boss feedback. The rate incrementally declined among those with a higher education.<\/p>\n

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The figures noted come from a June 5 reading of the ongoing query.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s never easy telling your manager that he or she is doing something\u00a0wrong,\u00a0but women seem to have a harder time of it than men. Women are less into it Fifty-eight percent of women say they are comfortable\u00a0with giving negative feedback to their boss compared with 64% of men, according to the latest reading of an … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[70,72,71,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}