What I read again on LinkedIn last week. That men who are CEO are more ‘caring’ and more social if they have daughters, it appears from research.
If they have a daughter, their companies are 9.1 percent ‘more social involved’, they spend 10.4 percent more as a percentage of their annual profit in initiatives in the field of culture, inclusion and the environment, and they also pay their female staff more evenly to men compared to CEOs who have no children, or ‘only’ sons.
“Daughters activate empathy, daughters form their fathers,” writes the author of the post, writer and organizational psychologist Adam Grant, on LinkedIn.
It is not to be believed, can it?
On LinkedIn people were angry that those men apparently need a daughter to behave normally towards women and the rest of the world. And that the fact that they have a mother, a girlfriend or a sister -in -law doesn’t matter, but I do understand those fathers. Daughters are strong stuff. I know that from my own experience.
Daughters give you ‘feedback’ 24/7, and press you with your nose on vulnerability and strength at the same time. If you have a daughter, you are constantly in the beep bag over the angry outside world. And you are crying all day about world peace. You want to see them grow up safely.
Houses that are a bit affordable, a climate without natural disasters and forest fires and without temperatures above 50 degrees. For sons you want that too, of course. Naturally! But daughters maybe a little extra, because they feel they are more vulnerable.
When I looked at the investigation, it turned out to be old, from 2017. A friend of mine who is a member of the Skepsis Foundation (who speaks out against scientific claims that are poorly substantiated, so then you know) warned me that the causal relationships in it were not very strongly demonstrated.
Yet my hands itched to make policy. Only take CEOs with daughters! CEOs oblige to have a daughter! What do I say: all men in the world oblige to have a daughter! I already had contact with the UN.
But my tough, male straight friends laughed at me square. Socially involved CEOs? Let it stay at home Bumba to look. They all spend money on softe nonsense.
Such a ‘father’ and they looked very dirty, you don’t want to, like CEO? Those birth photos show at the coffee machine. And every day earlier goes away to hold his daughters hand while riding. Come on.
Moreover, there is also something about the hard pegels in that research? For example, how does the return on the equity of such a company relate to the competition? Or how do they do it at the fair?
Be more Trump, who says he would date his own daughter. You will benefit more at this time. Men with chest and back hair. Men who take a bath in their limousine. Who eat the competition raw every morning for breakfast. They deserve so many billions that they can give their daughters their own continent as a gift. They benefit more than a father who braid their hair. Get rid of those cotton wool.
Fortunately my girlfriends were immediately enthusiastic. A very rebellious vibe was created on the housewife drink. Logical that nagging of my men’s friends. They don’t feel like making room for women. They just have to get through that. So gentlemen: teeth on each other and make daughters!
And if we are busy, we will immediately let the current qualifications that ‘score’ on a CV. ‘Administrative experience’? What is that? That you are snoring for a few hours a week at an expensive lunch in a meeting room?
Let them prefer to put on their CV how often they have taken care of the Christmas breakfast at school. Whether they have been a lice father, class parent, or they helped with the group-8 musical, or they know how much a kilo of chicken fillet costs-you have a lot more to it.
Nice Harry, chairman of the Rotary, but how often have you arranged the Juffencadeau? Maybe a cargo bike test to be sure. With the bouncer whether he has finished the evening four days and has taken the top of the Alpe d’Huzes.
A man who stands standing in the class app for a month about who takes care of the class goldfish during the holidays and controls the fire basket for the Easter drink in the schoolyard can anyway unseen CEO found one after the third rosé.
I still simmered that men have to do so much nowadays. Wear a Pink Ribbon bracelet. Standing up for women at work and on the street, designing cities in such a way that women feel safe there and make hospital care more equal. And then they now also have to make daughters. Moreover: what should childless CEOs then and CEOs that are single? But the ladies were not impressed by that.
They can take a cat, one said, they are already a lot more social, instead of always the eternal ‘loyal dog’ who strengthens their feelings that they are the center of the world. So I warn you, guys.
This research, we will enjoy that a lot.
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