Even though Sweden is one of the most highly developed countries in the world when it comes to the observance of gender equality, there are still many professions in which the distribution between men and women are vastly uneven. One of these is the key account manager profession, where around 80-90% of the persons chosen for the task are men. Taking on a controversial type of feministic approach, this thesis investigates if there is room for a change in the currently uneven gender distribution by suggesting that female attributes, especially nurturing ability, would be more preferable in key account management than male attributes, such as assertiveness. By visiting the variety of research on gender stereotypes, which many studies show still are alive, and choosing the gender-based personality traits that fitted best under the conceptualization of modern key account management, a framework for a questionnaire was created. Respondents from mainly large manufacturing business-to-business companies in capacity of mainly purchasing managers were asked to participate and give their opinion about the importance of the different personality traits. The results were due to the hypothesized proposition. Data clearly showed that the most preferable key account manager attributes from the customers’ perspective were predominantly what could be considered to be female attributes. However, the results also showed that a significant share of the respondents were not prone to ascribe attributes to gender, but rather to personality, adding an inevitable and interesting dimension for further analysis. The main implications of the study are versatile and could be considered controversial, but do entail some concrete implications, especially for management: a person possessing female attributes, likely a woman, might be more beneficial to hire for a key account manager position.