--- title: The Simple Thing Women Do That Saves Companies Tons of Money description: It has to do with avoiding procrastination canonical: https://time.com/4294214/women-save-companies-money/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-14T17:47:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:15.472Z og:title: How Women Save Companies Tons of Money og:description: A new study finds they book business travel in a smarter way og:url: https://time.com/4294214/women-save-companies-money/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt688259b84222a844/69888f28bc6cfcc0b43dc958/piggy-bank-save-money.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5142 og:image:height: 2892 og:image:alt: 122692595 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Women Save Companies Tons of Money twitter:description: A new study finds they book business travel in a smarter way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt688259b84222a844/69888f28bc6cfcc0b43dc958/piggy-bank-save-money.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Women Save Companies Tons of Money > Sponsored content. 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If you’re a woman, chances are you fall into the former camp, according to a new study in [_Harvard Business Review_](https://hbr.org/2016/04/women-book-business-travel-earlier-saving-companies-millions?referral=00563&cm%5Fmmc=email-%5F-newsletter-%5F-daily%5Falert-%5F-alert%5Fdate&utm%5Fsource=newsletter%5Fdaily%5Falert&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=alert%5Fdate)_._ And that should make your employer very, very happy, as procrastinators can cost their companies big money in pricey last-minute airfares. **_Fortune.com:_** [_Gilt Co-Founder Alexis Maybank Wants to Disrupt Shopping Again With a New App_](http://fortune.com/2016/04/14/project-september-alexis-maybank/) A group of reachers—including economics professors from Arizona State University and Ohio State University and data scientists from Carlson Wagonlit Travel—looked at the differences in how men and women book work travel. They based their research on a 2014 database of 6.4 million flight bookings. Their primary finding: Women consistently book their flights an average of two days earlier than their male counterparts. **_Fortune.com:_** [_EY Comes Out Swinging at Other Consulting Firms With New Parental Leave Policy_](http://fortune.com/2016/04/13/ey-parental-leave-policy/) So, how much difference does 48 hours actually make? The researchers found that in terms of the the overall ticket price, women were spending an average of $113 less per ticket. However, that number doesn’t take into account factors like route, seating class, and timing. When those variables are factored in, the gender price difference shrinks to about $17—or roughly 2% of the ticket price. While that number might seem underwhelming, consider the impact for companies that have thousands of employees on the road every year. According to the _HBR_ article, for a multi-national company with 21,000 travelers, those two extra days can yield $1 million in savings. **_Fortune.com:_**[ _Why Women in Their Early 20s Are Out-Earning Men_](http://fortune.com/2016/04/12/women-are-out-earning-men/) While this study didn’t ask why women tend to book earlier than men, previous research yields some clues. Namely, a survey that found that, in general, [women are more stressed](https://studies2.hec.fr/jahia/webdav/site/hec/shared/sites/Segalla/acces%5Fanonyme/Global%20Business%20Travel%20Builds%20Sales%20and%20Stress.pdf) out by business travel. Planning ahead is certainly one strategy for cutting down on travel anxiety, so it seems logical that the two findings may be related. _This_ [_article_](http://fortune.com/2016/04/14/female-employees-companies-millions/) _originally appeared on_ [_Fortune.com_](http://Fortune.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4294214/women-save-companies-money/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4294214/women-save-companies-money/"},"headline":"How Women Save Companies Tons of Money","datePublished":"2016-04-14T17:47:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:15.472Z","description":"A new study finds they book business travel in a smarter way","url":"https://time.com/4294214/women-save-companies-money/","keywords":["motto","Travel","Companies","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt688259b84222a844/69888f28bc6cfcc0b43dc958/piggy-bank-save-money.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kristen Bellstrom / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt688259b84222a844/69888f28bc6cfcc0b43dc958/piggy-bank-save-money.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"122692595","caption":"Piggy Bank and Stack of Coins","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4294214/women-save-companies-money/","name":"How Women Save Companies Tons of Money"}}]}] ```