In a scintillating new research done by Michael Dahl, Cristian Dezso and David Gaddis Rose , it has been revealed that male CEOs who have baby daughters are more likely to become more generous towards their employees than those who have sons. The study was done on more than 10000 male CEOs in Danish companies over the course of a decade. Prof. Dahl and his research team found that the changes in the pay of the employees depended upon the gender of the child. If the child was male, then the CEOs paid upto $100 less in compensation to their employees annually, whilst if the CEOs fathered a baby daughter then they tended to become more generous . A possible explanation has been provided by the researchers for this behaviour. Daughters apparently soften fathers and evoke more care-taking tendencies. Bringing-up a daughter makes men gentler, more empathetic and more other-oriented. Wharton Professor Adam Grant, author of the book ‘Give and Take – A Revolutionary Approach to S...
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