Want Better Audits and Other Project Results? Let Women Lead the Team

Research finds that business audits by teams with more women leaders produced fewer errors, higher quality reports, and lower prices for customers.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

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Last month the New York Times sparked an online dustup with an editorial and podcast by conservative columnist Ross Douthat originally titled “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” — an explosive headline editors quickly changed to explore the guilt of “liberal feminism” instead of implictly blaming all women. Just a few weeks later, researchers from the University of Buffalo School of Management published a study that not only documented ways that

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