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WHO MAKES BETTER BOARD MEMBERS, MEN OR WOMEN?
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published June 22, 2015
Happy belated Father’s Day to all of the fathers out
there who are reading the blog today. I hope yesterday was
filled with fun and joy and you were surrounded by the ones that
you love and the ones that love you. If you were, it’s a pretty
good guess you were not at the monthly Board of Directors
meeting.
I do think however that somehow, some way, Mother’s
day is a bigger event than Father’s Day is. There just seems to
be more excitement and thrill associated with Mother’s Day than
Father’s Day. There’s more sales. There’s more talk about it
on TV. In fact, some dads have to stay home and actually cook a
back yard bar b que on Father’s Day and to be honest, I’m not
brave enough to ask my wife to stay home and cook on Mother’s
Day.
So……these Father’s Day v. Mother’s Day thoughts got
me thinking about one unique phone call I received while doing
the Condo Craze Radio Show live on the air several years ago.
It was from a gentleman who thought it was a bad idea for a
woman to serve on a Board of Directors. I was certainly taken
back by the call and pressed him for an explanation. From what
I remember, he said things like “What does a woman know about
fixing a broken pipe or a busted sidewalk?”
Most of my male lawyer friends know nothing about
those things either and can barely turn a screwdriver or know
which end to use to turn a screw. Me included. That wouldn’t
necessarily make them or me a bad board member. So, needless to
say, the nut who called was way off base.
However……………………
There is always a however………………… Can anyone make an
argument that one of the sexes do make better board members than
the other? Let’s use stereotypes. Are men more stubborn board
members than women are and won’t ask for help or directions even
when it’s obvious they are lost? Are men less likely to
compromise?
Do women actually know less about the physical problems that
aging properties routinely suffer? Are women more open to
compromise?
But, do they sometimes hold grudges against fellow board members
which last a life time? Is either sex better with number
crunching or saving money? Who has better ideas when it comes
to making the place look better? It’s all for fun --- so for
today and today only – in your experience, does either sex bring
more to the table as a director of a community association?
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About
HOA & Condo Blog
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Eric Glazer graduated from
the University of Miami School of Law in 1992 after
receiving a B.A. from NYU. He has practiced community
association law for more than 2
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decades and is the owner of Glazer
and Associates, P.A. a seven attorney law firm with offices in
Fort Lauderdale and Orlando and satellite offices in Naples,
Fort Myers and Tampa.
Since 2009, Eric has been the host
of Condo Craze and HOAs, a weekly one hour radio show that airs
at noon each Sunday on 850 WFTL.
See:
www.condocrazeandhoas.com.
He is the first attorney in the
State of Florida that designed a course that certifies
condominium residents as eligible to serve on a condominium
Board of Directors and has now certified more than 10,000
Floridians all across the state. He is certified as a Circuit
Court Mediator by The Florida Supreme Court and has mediated
dozens of disputes between associations and unit owners. Eric
also devotes significant time to advancing legislation in the
best interest of Florida community association members.
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