However, women who work with a high proportion of men under the age of 40 — particularly if those men are in middle or senior-management positions — may find life to be less stressful than women who work among and for older men. So, while both older and younger men can be male advocates and allies, younger men may be more likely to advocate for the things that women actually need, making their advocacy especially important. In contrast, older men ranked leadership transparency and commitment as top priorities. In addition, regardless of whether younger men were fathers themselves, men under the age of 40 were much more likely to to cite the importance of parental leave and on-site childcare than men over the age of 40. Perhaps most significantly, BCG found that a higher percentage of younger men said they were willing to change their own behavior than men over the age of 40.

Source: Forbes November 22, 2017 12:08 UTC