{"id":176,"date":"2004-11-21T04:21:26","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T09:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=176"},"modified":"2004-11-21T04:21:26","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T09:21:26","slug":"do-women-make-good-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200411\/do-women-make-good-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do women make good managers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/ravikiran.com\/archives\/000185.htm\">post<\/a> talked about the susceptibility of either sex to emotion and ego.<br \/>\nThis post is about susceptibility too. To stress.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe are interested in two characteristics of stress-inducers.<\/p>\n<p>a. Persistence: Whether it is continuous or a one-time thing.<\/p>\n<p>b. Intensity: Whether it is very powerful or not so powerful.<\/p>\n<p>My hypothesis is that men can handle continuous stress more easily compared to women, but only small to medium intensity stress-inducers at that. They shall break down that much more easily when faced with very high intensity stress.<\/p>\n<p>And while women cannot handle continuous stress, they have a better ability to withstand very high stress-impulses.<\/p>\n<p>An analogy would be a rubber block and a ceramic block. The rubber block, like a woman, bends even to small continuous impulses, unlike the &#8220;stronger&#8221; ceramic block. But drop either from a height, and the ceramic block breaks into a thousand pieces, whereas the rubber block is intact.<\/p>\n<p>And the answer to the question in the title of the post is thus:<br \/>\nMen would make better managers. And women would make better <s>spouses who &#8220;stand behind&#8221; their manager husbands<\/s> advisors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier post talked about the susceptibility of either sex to emotion and ego. This post is about susceptibility too. To stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}