Women Are the New Men 05/31/12
I was recently interviewed by Bill Moller on the “First Business” news show about men and women in business.
The host said that “women are the new men.” It’s an odd statement, I know, but I promise that if you take a mere three minutes out of your day to watch this video clip of the interview, you’ll understand what he means by this and you might not think it’s such an odd statement after all.
I came to the conclusions I talk about in this interview based on many recent statistics and findings by esteemed business publications and I think it’s a really interesting and noteworthy topic. What are your thoughts on this? Do you agree? Disagree? . . . I’d love to hear your input so, by all means, please leave your thoughts in the comments section.
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How very true! Just look around and you find a lot more women in key positions in large organisations, mostly in customer facing and HR related functions. they are now found running the organisations as they are better at HRM, better at managing relationships and having higher EQ than most men.
Great video! Networking sometimes has the image of stuffy “old boys” clubs, but it’s refreshing that BNI groups are well attended by women. Our group is about 50/50. Mixed groups tend to be much more dynamic I believe.
I disagree. I think it is an insult to women to say they are the new men. Women are women and men are men. Women do things in a female way and men in a masculine way. The psychology is as different as the physiology. What has changed is that in the changing world women are now able to achieve more and still take a different approach to do it. I fear for such generalisations because there will always be the exception to the rule and problems can be caused when someone finds that they do not meet that generalisation.
Michael, re-listen to the video. I didn’t actually say that women are the new men – the host did. I talked about the fact that men and women need to bridge the gender gap. Sometimes topic titles are done by the media to get people’s attention. Listen to the content – it’s different than the opening by the host.
Ok Ivan. You didn’t actually say those words but the presenter said that “Women are the new men” is what is spelt out in the book which you co authored and at the beginning of the interview the presenter said to you that you had seen how women are the new men to which you said “it’s very true…” To be fair you said nothing to imply you thought any different. Maybe I just misinterpreted your intentions.
Is there another copy anywhere online please? It seems this one has been removed by the user. I tried doing a YouTube search but there are too many videos with the same title or similar.
Thanks
Sorry everyone. There are technical difficulties with the video from the TV station. We will have this fixed ASAP.
Putting the misleading heading to one side, a great interview. I will definitely be searching out your book.
Jules
Thank you Michael, I do get tired of being compared to a man. I think that women will accomplish all they need to without following the same old same old that men have been doing for centuries. As the statistics show, soon men will be trying to be the new women.
My pleasure Stephanie. Yes, many men are trying to be the new women, but they don’t have the legs or suit the dresses half as well.