If you are a female in the corporate world…isn't having a female boss the WORST?

[Anonymous]

During my engagement and then after the pregnancy, oh my God she never gave me an ounce of respect or credit. Any personal decision I made, she compared it to her own from the past.

Then I was up for a promotion but she withdrew my application because I was 36 weeks pregnant.

It broke me.

But really, how many examples of great female CEO's do we have? Do we even highlight exemplarily leadership amongst women. It's like we empower them because they're female but little discussion is had about what makes an admirable leader.

[Anonymous]

Not at all. All my female bosses have been good to great. I've had really horrible to great male bosses.

[Anonymous]

My female boss is awesome, but I have known other high ranking females who I would never want to work for. I think a lot of the bad boss ones have an air of "I made a lot of sacrifices to my personal life to get where I am, and I expect you to, too." It's intimidating.

[Anonymous]

I've had shi**y female bosses. I've had shi**y male bosses. My current boss is a woman and absolutely wonderful.

[Anonymous]

I'm a female in government rather than the private sector but over the course of my career have also consistently found my female bosses much less pleasant to work for than male bosses, largely because they have tended to be more rigid and micromanaging. Also at my agency the vast majority of female managers are single while most male managers are married with kids so I've found my male managers to be more understanding and supportive of work/life balance, child care constraints, etc.

[Anonymous]

My three female bosses have been great. My male bosses have been a mixed bag (one great, two bad, one mediocre). I don't think this is something you can generalize about, and I think you do all women a disservice by doing so.

[Anonymous]

Guess I've been spoiled as I'm in accounting as well, and I've had primarily female bosses (one male) who have all been great resources in advancing my career. They always gave me the best assignments that got me noticed and promoted and we keep in touch even though we no longer have a working relationship.

[Anonymous]

Oh no. I'm a recently promoted female boss. I don't want to be a bad boss. I do want to be an effective manager though.

[Anonymous]

This type of post drives me nuts.
I have had good and bad bosses of both genders.

Also, your post is very badly spelled. Maybe if your bosses are hard on you, it is because your work quality is poor and you seem uneducated. I can see where a woman with poor performance but good looks might prefer male bosses. For everyone else, I think it's not an issue.

[Anonymous]

I've enjoyed most of my female bosses. DH however, due in great part to his field, has had a string of absolutely horrid ones until now - now he has a pretty good one, even though she, like his previous ones, is unmarried and lives for her work. The others were either in over their heads or sleeping with the CEO and had no leadership or people skills (other than sucking up).

As a woman, this is so depressing. I feel like women need better leadership training and mentors of either sex. These women were all baby boomers and Gen X which may have something to do with it. Maybe Millenials will be better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a female in government rather than the private sector but over the course of my career have also consistently found my female bosses much less pleasant to work for than male bosses, largely because they have tended to be more rigid and micromanaging. Also at my agency the vast majority of female managers are single while most male managers are married with kids so I've found my male managers to be more understanding and supportive of work/life balance, child care constraints, etc.

This! +1

[Anonymous]

My 3 favorite bosses have been 2 black females and 1 white female.

My worst boss what a white dude that hit on me until I shut him down and then he never talked to me again and an Indian male who told me "women should be at home taking care of the children" (that was 1 year ago).

I had a okay white male boss tell me I was the most qualified for the job but with an infant he didn't think I could handle the job (that was in 1999), he eventually saw the error in his ways and promoted me 5 years later. (Sad that he was not the worse)

The rest have been okay. Nothing stellar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This type of post drives me nuts.
I have had good and bad bosses of both genders.

Also, your post is very badly spelled. Maybe if your bosses are hard on you, it is because your work quality is poor and you seem uneducated. I can see where a woman with poor performance but good looks might prefer male bosses. For everyone else, I think it's not an issue.

+1

[Anonymous]

I work in biglaw. The only time I ever had issues was when I worked for female partners.

[Anonymous]

No, I've had good and bad bosses of both genders.