They say women are from Venus while men are from Mars and the differences between the sexes is clear even in the workplace.

A survey looking at the working styles of men and women reveals 45 percent of women agree with the statement that "women have to be better than men to succeed in the workplace" compared to 26 percent of men.

Yet women might adopt a different approach to getting the edge over their male counterparts as more than half of men rate ability over personality, while just two in five women rate ability above personality.

The Style of the Sexes survey addressed issues such as how conflict is dealt with in the workplace, which factors men and women consider important in a job, whether job concerns are shared with co-workers, and whether employees prefer to work in teams of mostly men or mostly women.

Nine out of 10 men and women prefer to work in roughly equally mixed team, however both men and women preferred working in mostly male teams.

In a conflict situation, men and women also respond differently: 73 percent of the men said they would confront the situation face-to-face,

compared with 63 percent of the women. Women are also more likely to ask for intervention, with 59 percent likely to talk to their manager and 39 percent likely to report the situation to HR, compared with 52 percent and 35 percent of the men, respectively.

Women are also far more likely to have experienced conflict in the workplace: 55 per cent stated they've faced conflict compared with 46 percent of men. Women take longer to recover from conflict too: 41 percent of those who had experienced conflict said it took more than a month to recover. Just a quarter of the men needed more than a month to recover.

Tracy Carr, CEO of Gender IQ said: "While the perception still may be that women have to work harder to succeed, the good news is that the study also showed that both men and women prefer to work in mixed teams of equal proportions, so we also instinctively understand the power that both parties bring for team success. This is further illustrated by a report from McKinsey on gender diversity as a corporate performance driver, which showed that those companies that had senior teams of which at least a third were women outperformed those companies with no women on senior teams. This is no longer about gender but about improved company performance."

Nikki Walker, director of Inclusion & Diversity for European Markets at Cisco, said: "Celebrating a culture of inclusion and diversity where difference is respected and recognized as a key contributor to success not only enables an organization to attract and retain the best talent, but also enables an organization to get the best out of their employees. Understanding the difference between the genders will enable organizations to manage mixed teams more effectively and to connect more effectively with customers."