Talkative women winning battle with men for best jobs

MEN face being squeezed out of the bestpaying jobs because they cannot compete with the face-to-face confidence of female rivals, a study has found.

It said women were winning the battle for success because they were better at getting on with colleagues and clients. The study found that over a 20-year period, a lower share of men were appointed to the highest-paid jobs, even though the number of such jobs increased.

The research published by the UBS International Centre of Economics in Society said: ‘The key driver seems to be growing demand for social skills, such as empathy, communication, emotion recognition and verbal expression, in which evidence from psychological research indicates that women have a comparative advantage.’

Report author Professor Nir Jaimovich, from the University of Zurich, said the advance of technology and automation ‘put a premium on the ability to talk to and win over other people’.