Do women prefer male bosses?

Yes, according to a survey by Harper’s Bazaar leading women’s magazine in the UK which claims to be a favorite among smart and sophisticated women who are affluent, well traveled and cultured. While the full details of the intention of the survey and its complete findings are not available, some information was posted on www.womenpaycheck.com.

The survey by the magazine claims that 60% of women prefer to work for a male boss and 70% would be happy to see their women colleagues fail.

Some other findings of the survey:
58 percent said there was indeed gender equality in their workplace.

70 percent of respondents admitted they would be happy to see a colleague fail.

20 percent confessed to taking credit for another's work.

85 per cent of the women admitted they had locked themselves in the office toilet to cry.

About 33 per cent said they pretended to be less intelligent than they actually were to flatter a male ego and get ahead.

70 per cent of women thought that socializing outside office hours brought them more influence at work.

40 per cent said men had not invited them to traditional male bonding activities such as a round of golf or a game of poker.

70 per cent said that simply by wearing a pair of high heels to work they automatically felt more powerful and confident in their ability to deal with the working day.

I personally am not surprised at the findings in the survey especially about taking credit for another’s work, socializing outside work, and wearing high heels to work to feel more powerful. We have all done this once in a while and especially the high heels bit though I must confess I have done that to look taller 

The surprising bit was on preferring male bosses as one would think competence rather then gender as a criteria for preferring bosses. Do the survey findings indicate that may be the women who prefer male bosses in the survey had the bad luck of dealing with bad women bosses and may be this is the reason for their preference?

Would the survey findings be the same if they were conducted on women in India and at junior and middle levels across various industries in India? Are women the same everywhere? Or would you say Indian women are different?

The answers probably are going to be as diverse as women are but let me know what you think……..