Saturday 19 November 2022 10:44 PM Men in the workplace get to the top thanks to greater self-esteem, landmark ... trends now
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Many women in the workplace have long suspected it's swaggering arrogance that enables their male counterparts to get ahead.
Now a landmark study concludes that men's greater self-esteem puts more of them into the top jobs than women.
The pressures of parenting with career breaks to have children and the lack of childcare have long been blamed for the gender gap.
But research into thousands of Britons born in a single week in 1970 reveals that men's 'over-confidence' is a big factor too.
Now a landmark study concludes that men's greater self-esteem puts more of them into the top jobs than women (stock image)
The analysis compared results from educational tests taken at the ages of five, ten and 16 with the participants' subjective estimates of how intelligent they were when questioned
