Is the answer to sexual harassment in the workplace more female bosses?

Americans seem unconvinced about that — except for the most dedicated C-SPAN watchers, perhaps.

In a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, eight in 10 men and two-thirds of women said they didn’t have a preference on whether to report to a male or female boss. Among the relatively small number who had a preference, men by nearly 3-1 preferred a male boss — 13% a male boss, 5% a female one — while women were narrowly divided, 16%-13%.

But there were some quirky details in the survey’s cross-tabs.

For instance, those who described themselves as very liberal and had a preference chose female bosses over male ones by close to 3-1. Those who described themselves as very conservative preferred male bosses over female ones by almost 5-1.

And among those who identified C-SPAN as the media source they trusted most, a full 33% preferred a female boss while not one preferred a male boss — though to be fair, there were only 18 of them.

The poll of 1,000 registered voters, taken Dec. 5-9, has a margin of error of three percentage points for the full sample.