Why women make great bosses

The Indicator from Planet Money

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4.7 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Companies with more top female execs are more likely to please customers, be socially responsible, and are more profitable. But we don't know why. Today we talk to Corinne Post, who thinks she's solved the mystery.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:11.5	There are all these studies that show that companies with more women leaders perform better
0:15.6	in some very specific ways.
0:17.9	They're more socially responsible.
0:19.6	They provide higher quality customer experiences and they are more profitable.
0:25.0	But there is this big gap.
0:28.4	But we don't know is why.
0:31.4	Yeah, well, we haven't really done a thorough job of looking at what happens over time
0:35.8	to companies that add women as leaders.
0:38.5	I'm Adrienne Ma.
0:39.8	And I'm Sally Herschutz.
0:41.2	Today on the indicator, we meet a professor who thinks she has solved that mystery.
0:46.2	Why having more women in top jobs leads to all these payoffs.
0:50.2	And how companies with women leaders change in very specific ways.
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1:17.7	Many of us have heard of Cheryl Sandberg at Facebook or Mary Barra at GM.
1:22.2	But most of the other top executives of Fortune 500 companies are men.
1:26.4	Yeah, but we know that when women step into executive roles like CEO, CFO, director, that
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