Why are women leaders so terrible to other women

[Anonymous]

Jealousy? Power plays? A-types?

Why??

[Anonymous]

You are generalizing. I've had lots of great women leaders.
I've also never met an "I work better with men" woman who was excellent at her job.

[Anonymous]

Still better than men leaders with nothing to show for except their balls.

[Anonymous]

I’ve wondered this myself. My male managers have always been a lot more easygoing than my female ones who tend to be more unsympathetic and prone to micromanagement. Of course, this could very well just be specific to my experience.

[Anonymous]

ETA, I wonder if women just tend to be more competitive with other women?
It would be interesting to see if men feel the same way about competition between men and whether they feel that it’s easier to work for a woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve wondered this myself. My male managers have always been a lot more easygoing than my female ones who tend to be more unsympathetic and prone to micromanagement. Of course, this could very well just be specific to my experience.

Female managers are held to a higher standard and cannot afford to be easygoing. They only got the job by being more intense than the male competition, and virtually error free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve wondered this myself. My male managers have always been a lot more easygoing than my female ones who tend to be more unsympathetic and prone to micromanagement. Of course, this could very well just be specific to my experience.

Female managers are held to a higher standard and cannot afford to be easygoing. They only got the job by being more intense than the male competition, and virtually error free.

Agree that’s also why they need to be on the move. Because internal advancement requires “team happiness” in big companies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jealousy? Power plays? A-types?

Why??

they have been trained since young women to use the p'ssy as currency for transactions to their benefit.

now they are interacting with other women doing the same thing and it decreases the value of the p'ssy. so they get angry and vindictive.

it is basic instinct.

[Anonymous]

Change your expectations. They are not your mommy, your bestie, your sis. They are your boss and that lirterally means bossing you around

[Anonymous]

I think it's a disconnect about the definition of "supervision." For most men, that means making sure the work gets done. For most women, it means making sure the work gets done the way the woman/supervisor would do it, which requires hyper vigilance of the work itself. It's a control issue and an insecurity issue.

[Anonymous]

I completely agree with you. I (female) have been working in Defense for 35 years and every single time I get a female boss she is terrible. Terrible to all, worse to women, but terrible to all.

I have been on a couple interviews for positions I have turned down when I find out the boss is female. I don't know why this is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve wondered this myself. My male managers have always been a lot more easygoing than my female ones who tend to be more unsympathetic and prone to micromanagement. Of course, this could very well just be specific to my experience.

Female managers are held to a higher standard and cannot afford to be easygoing. They only got the job by being more intense than the male competition, and virtually error free.

False! This is their misconception and downfall

[Anonymous]

Women are used to "girl dynamics" from school years. Everyone is an enemy because the gossip and behind the scenes power stealing is alive and real (and you don't know which woman it is so you have to assume everyone is complicit). For men, they still do this but it is more direct and obvious. They only need to worry about the threat in front of them and not the ones behind the scenes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jealousy? Power plays? A-types?

Why??

they have been trained since young women to use the p'ssy as currency for transactions to their benefit.

now they are interacting with other women doing the same thing and it decreases the value of the p'ssy. so they get angry and vindictive.

it is basic instinct.

fact of life.

[Anonymous]

Wow, can we trot out a few more stereotypes? We're missing "hysterical."

There are many female bosses horrible to female employees...just as there are many male bosses who are horrible to female employees. We all have different experiences.

In my cases, two of my best bosses were female, and two of my worst were male.