New study shows everyone prefers to work with men

New study shows everyone prefers to work with menNew study shows everyone prefers to work with menA new MSN poll for Business Insider found that the majority of men and women still prefer the company of men at work.And its not just men supporting their own gender One in five men and women said they would rather work with a male colleague.Perhaps this male confidence also stems from believing in their own success.Most men in the MSN poll believed that the gender gap is an issue of the past. 40% of men surveyed said that women are treated very fairly in the workplace while only 17% of women believed the same. This reinforces a separate study that found58% of U.S. men in the workforce believed that all obstacles to gender equality are gone.Thats what researchers found in studies on confidence in the workplace men are mora confident - almost unquestioning- in their abilities and mora confident that when things go wrong at work, its their gender, and not their performance, thats to blame . As Ladders has previously reported, male leaders have an advantage and are better liked - across generations.Millennial men believe men make better leadersMultiples studies got the same result men are very confident in their abilities- so confident that they suspect discrimination when they dont get the job. Out of the8,000 millennials aged between 18-34 that Qualtrics and Accel surveyed, 33% of millennial men believed that they had faced frequent gender discrimination at work, compared with the 21% of millennial women who felt the same way.Moreover, millennial men were 50% more likely to believe that their gender was affecting their career opportunities, although Qualtrics didnt say whether the men believed the effect was positive or negative, meaning whether the men believed they received better or worse opportunities because of their gender.Meanwhile, women were more likely to believe in gender equality at work, with 41% believing that men and women are judged by the same crit eria in the workplace.The Qualtrics study also showed vastly different views between young men and women on what makes a good boss or leader.For instance, millennial men are more likely than their female counterparts to believe that men are more effective leaders, with 38% of young men saying that compared to 14% of young women.And, while millennial men and women both mostly had no preference for their bosss gender, they tend to favor strictly gender-limited workplacesTwo-thirds of millennial women and 72% of men prefer to work with people of their own gender, Qualtrics found.Confident that theyre rightResearchers have found that the reason that men feel that gender discrimination may keep them from jobs is that that theyre more openly confident about their abilities. In other words, men are more likely to believe that if they didnt get the job, something was wrong with the process rather than a flaw in their own abilities.One study found that in self-assessments on individualcompet ence, men graded themselves higher than women. In fact, theyre so confident in themselves that a 2016 study found that men were more likely to be their own topexpert on any subject. Looking into two decades of data on academic citations, researchers found that men self-cited themselves 70% more than women. Men are, in fact, their own consultants.These beliefs in fairness and confidence are particularly interesting because they dont hold up to reality as measured by a plethora of studies that show women are more likely than men to be discriminated against for their gender in the workplace.The Financial Times surveyed 50 of the worlds largest banks and found that women inthese positions wereless likely to be promoted than men. Only 25.5% of senior bank roles in 2016 were held by women.The workplace isnt a fair battleground for men and women when it comes to wages either. Four studies found that when women negotiated for higher pay, they weremore likely to be penalized for it from both men and women. The people on the other side of the negotiation said they would be less inclined to work with a women who negotiated, more likely to call her a bad fit to the company.The main takeaway from these studies, which show self-image thats contrary to reality, may be that more workplaces should train employees on how to fight their own subconscious biases on men and women in the workplace.