Please dont take this question in wrong sense... I am not making any kind of statement about gender discrimination....

I just asking your view on this...

I myself personaly feel that females use to react positively even in negative conditions that may be the reason that they are good as HR.
e.g.- If some female HR want to say no to some employee they use say it so politely that he/she also agree with her.

Some functions are there in HR, which can be taken care in a better way by a woman in comparision of Man like Coordination, PR, Commincation (Internal/External), Some tasks on Recruitment like Telephonic Interview, Administration of Performance Appraisal like Data Gathering etc. where work sometimes becomes tedious as men get irritated by slow progress and repeated task in comparision of woman. In Manufacturing Industries like Garment/Textile there are fany processes mainly handled by woman. So for such functions I would like to recruit woman.

Hi Vinay

As you mentioned that employers preferred females for HR position , is not very correct.HR profile is not gender oriented it depends upon job role which has to assign.Females are good to handle recruitment process,employee relations and males are good in handling HR operation work like PF,ESI,labour relations in large manufacturing unit where their is direct interaction of HR with unions,labour so that is totally depend upon company’s environment,kind of company it is and job criteria.

“HR is generally perceived to be a profession based around people and people skills. Men – and this is too deep a topic to be specific about – tend to be attracted to areas that are more systematic, more structured and more competitive.” In male-dominated professions, such as sales, law or engineering, you can see the number of sales made, or court cases won, or bridges built, you can usually see exactly what has been achieved. But in HR, it has not always been easy to measure your achievement.

I don’t believe that women prefer HR because it is a soft option. In the difficult areas of HR that managers often shy away from – such as discipline or hard-edged negotiations – it is often the women who are prepared to cut to the quick and be decisive.

“HR is a job where the amount of power you have lies in your ability to influence other people, whereas in many other jobs, you have power through position. I think the women who come into HR and do well are particularly good at influencing other people.”

Women also seem to be less precious about positions. I don’t mean that they don’t care about status. I mean that they seem to be more open minded when it comes to moving towards or away from a particular point of argument, whereas men often feel it is a sign of weakness.

The key HR skills in many areas are the ability to empathise, relate and influence, and use emotional intelligence. I am not suggesting that men don’t have emotional intelligence, but in HR the women who do well have bags and bags of it…

I strongly believe that there is no difference between men and women when it comes to professional life. I also do not agree with all the so called surverys and studies which go out of their way to prove that men are good at some tasks and women in some. I am neither a male chauvinist nor a supporter of feminists. I feel men and women both belong to the same genus and species according to zoology and we should let it remain at that. All other talk is nothing but the chauvinists and the feminists trying to grab some headlines, nothing else.

I believe that a person, irrespective of the gender, is made up of a lot of factors like his background, schooling, circumstances at home, neighbours, friends, etc. These are decisive factors when shaping a person's psyche.

In my 14 years of experience, I have never found anything great about any gender, except that the committed and hard working person was always able to grow, inspite of the gender specific difficulties we have to face. All this talk about genders is nothing but a farce to keep idle minds engaged. I have worked with excellent men/women, rotten men/women. That doesnt give me a right to generalize genders based on my experience alone, much as any stupid survey or study which studies 20-200 people and tries to tell us what half of the human population is !!!
Let us grow up and talk sense friends. Let us respect both genders cos humankind is nothing without any of the two human genders we know of :)

Let us concentrate of what best we can do at work. The rest would follow.