Men get to top through arrogance

MANY female workers have longsuspected it’s swaggering arrogance that enables male counterparts to get ahead.

Now a landmark study finds men’s greater self-esteem puts more of them into the top jobs than women.

Research into 17,000 people in Britain born in a single week in 1970 reveals that men’s ‘overconfidence’ is a big factor too.

The analysis compared results from educational tests taken at the ages of five, 10 and 16 with the participants’ subjective estimates of how intelligent they were when questioned aged 10 and 16.

The results show that boys were twice as likely to judge themselves as clever as girls.