diff --git a/changelog/fragments/1662.fixed.rst b/changelog/fragments/1662.fixed.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..972f51a39c2965440f4443756e1f87d24e53948c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/fragments/1662.fixed.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+The ``compare_dict_of_arrays`` function now works witth arrays of string with multiple components.
diff --git a/src/gemseo/utils/comparisons.py b/src/gemseo/utils/comparisons.py
index d2a8f90e2c5484be6f4fadda9b12939af9c92550..578cdac8f7eaff280bb6c9c12a3ff43ebb11ac17 100644
--- a/src/gemseo/utils/comparisons.py
+++ b/src/gemseo/utils/comparisons.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def compare_dict_of_arrays(
             other_array = other_array.data.reshape(-1)
 
         if array_.dtype.type is str_:
-            if array_ != other_array:
+            if (array_ != other_array).any():
                 return False
         elif not compare_arrays(array_, other_array):
             return False
diff --git a/tests/utils/test_comparisons.py b/tests/utils/test_comparisons.py
index 00993759aa0e19c04301fd0fedb1fcee8c759e5d..6796359f39001f83b59fb92b2f9ca3235907bb13 100644
--- a/tests/utils/test_comparisons.py
+++ b/tests/utils/test_comparisons.py
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ def test_array_are_close(
         ("string", "bad", False),
         (array(["string"]), array(["string"]), True),
         (array(["string"]), array(["bad"]), False),
+        (array(["string", "other_string"]), array(["string", "other_string"]), True),
+        (array(["string", "other_string"]), array(["string", "bad"]), False),
         ("string", array(["string"]), False),
     ],
 )