I Love football. Show up with a ball and I will want to play, full well knowing that I will be hurting tomorrow. Having passed 50 years I have to accept that every collision hurts. But that is nothing compared to being hooked from behind or tackled into the fence. Old men like me have seen a lot of Champons League on TV, and then we try to do what they do. The result is far from graceful.
Add two women to the match and everything changes. Nobody gets hooked and nobodys face gets printed into the fence. I could even leave the game unbruiced. Even at ten men and two women the game is respectful, and we all have so much more fun.
As you may have suspected, this effect does not just apply to football. Brilliant data leaves us no doubt. Companies with mixed management groups have more respectful working climates.
Respect from colleagues in 97 companies. r2=0,12, p=0,000 which means this relationship is significant on the highest level, usuall ycalled 99 percent. Respect from manager is significant on the 95 percent level.
A more respectful attitude towards each other makes work more fun in these companies (r2=0,25 but only 10 of the studies companies have this issue) which makes people in these companies more motivated and they also feel that their work has meaning (r2=0,28 p=0,13). Time will give us more cases on these issues, but the pattern is very clear. The same applies to balance between work and spare time.
My conclusion is obvious. I say no to football unless there are some women on the field. It just hurts too much. For pretty much the same reason I will not work for a company with an all male management team.