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The women that I've hired for outsourcing jobs were good because they're patient and they keep on working until the job is done. They don't get flustered, they just work through the job. My old boss, a CPA whose wife was also a CPA, told me once that at tax time he'd start to get flustered and panic whereas his wife simply started at the beginning and worked her way through the large stack of tax work they had to get done. Kind of like my outsourcers.

The women that I've hired for outsourcing jobs were good because they're patient and they keep on working until the job is done. They don't get flustered, they just work through the job. My old boss, a CPA whose wife was also a CPA, told me once that at tax time he'd start to get flustered and panic whereas his wife simply started at the beginning and worked her way through the large stack of tax work they had to get done. Kind of like my outsourcers.

I agree with the agree, women are generally more patient than men, and women tend to complete the job neater, faster and better!

I just read an interesting article about outsourcing jobs and it talks about how women are 3.5% better than men at quality and delivery of projects, even though we are outnumbered in the tech industry. Pretty interesting stuff!

I can't argue with the numbers. I have outsourced to both men and women over the years and with me anyway, I did in fact have a little better luck with the women...when I take an average on the performance over the years...with the men compared to the women.

You have to look at it this way. Women have the patience to deal with and raise children. So, naturally they'd be able to apply that same patience to their work.

Maybe it's because men get bored easily especially with mundane tasks.