“Gender differences are the main shaping factor in all societies and in most of the activities that take place within them.” (Watson, 1995: 156) A manager is defined as “an individual who is responsible for a certain group of tasks, or a certain subset of an enterprise. A manager often has a staff of people who report to him or her. (Webfinance, 2014) It is a controversial issue whether women or men have better leadership skills, since nowadays women seem to have a high level of education. According to Early (2008), women hold 51% of bachelor's degrees and 45% of all advanced degrees. This essay will analyze which gender makes a better manager, after first indicating the characteristics of successful managers in management styles. The differences between female and male managers will be analysed. Finally, we will evaluate which gender makes a better manager. First, it is essential to have some common characteristics in management styles to become a good manager. They can be expressed as organization, communication, control, leadership and so on. Successful leaders best have large social networks, which refers to great communication skills, which can help them build close working relationships with consumers, employees, and bosses (Goleman, 2004). Furthermore, having a well-organized business structure is always the key to success; therefore managers must have a structured and systematic working style (Wilson, 2010). Applying the right leadership styles is important to better control the company, good managers must be decisive and assertive (Goleman, 2004). Additionally, both male and female leaders have their strengths in leading teams. Men possess masculine traits such as aggressive, dominant and directive attitudes. This reveals that there is an additional focus on gender diversity (Sherwin, 2014). To summarize, this essay examined the different characteristics of men's and women's management styles, provided an example of Austrialia, and discussed which gender could make a better manager. As the number of successful women managers is constantly increasing, this may prove that they could become better managers than men. From the above information, women can be successful due to the determination to succeed like male managers have. This means that not only men could be better managers, gender is not a factor in defining this statement, but skill and competence. Both women and men could be examined equally based on their personalities and potential instead of prejudices and the variety of judgmental opinions on gender roles.