Women, Men and Newsroom Leadership - Part 4

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SECTION IV

• POWER
• WIN-WIN, WIN-LOSE

Key Points:

• For men, power is status; they are more interested in the perks and emblems of success.
• Men live in a world of winners and losers; their jockeying for rank is associated with the hormone testosterone.
• For women, power is connections.
• Women need consensus and harmony; they swap information freely and are more careful to attribute ideas.
• Women have a harder time working with people they don’t like; men just want to “play the game.”

Questions:

• How do the different views of power play out in the newsroom?
• Remembering these are generalities that don’t fit each person equally, where do you fit?
• What problems and opportunities can these two views of power produce?
• How good are people at attributing ideas to another?

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