Column: “What makes a strong woman?” at The Tennessean

An excerpt:

Speaking of which, Pew Research did a study in 2008 asking about leadership traits in men and women. They first asked what characteristics make a good leader. The responses included honesty, compassion, creativity and intelligence. Then, among those characteristics, they asked whether that trait was more true of men or women.

For most of them, women rated better than men. Women outflanked men for “compassionate” 80 percent to 5 percent. The highest-ranked leadership characteristic, “honest,” was credited to women 50 percent of the time versus 20 percent for men. The only top-rated leadership characteristic in which men scored better than women was “decisive.”

Read the rest at the link:
http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2014/04/27/kate-oneill-makes-strong-woman/8180861/