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

[Anonymous]

Can we please not stereotype an entire gender? Just as there are nice people and sh*tty people in life, I've had good and bad female bosses. The bad ones were insecure and competitive. My current boss is incredibly confident and comfortable in her role and doesn't feel threatened by the fact that I might have a few strengths that she doesn't -- she recognizes the value this brings to my work and how it reflects on her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. My female boss is awesome and flexible and brilliant and a good mentor.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Love my female boss. I've had great and horrible bosses of both genders.

[Anonymous]

I've had three phenomenal bosses who were female. One fairly decent male boss. One mediocre female boss. Two who were not a good fit at all, both male.

[Anonymous]

I suspect the OP is not even a woman. What woman repeatedly uses the term “female”? This is some MRA troll out to stir up the rampant misogyny that seethes below the surface of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

I'd argue the opposite. I love not worrying about misoginy, getting hit on and other bullshit with my boss (female)

[Anonymous]

There are crazies of both genders--- as for law firm partners, I prefer the crazy man to the crazy woman. Not sure why. We have some absolutely psychotic female partners in my firm-- maybe they've just been broken down by the white male machine.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Can't say my female boss ever tried to get me to sleep with her.

[Anonymous]

My female bosses have been, at best, horrific. I had to go to therapy after one.

The company knew how bad "Ann" was but couldn't fire her because she was female (it was a male-dominated industry). At one point, we had to do a 360 peer review for "Ann" and when it was my time to meet with her reviewer, I mustered up enough courage to be very honest.

I gave "Ann" a horrible review. At the end of my hour-long meeting, the reviewer said that of all the people she had met with, I had the nicest things to say about "Ann".

[Anonymous]

Worst boss ever had by a larger margin was a South Indian woman h1b

Arrogant and incompetent

And racist

[Anonymous]

All the people who have helped me have been men. All nightmares, women. I'm an architect and have to present in front of public boards: it's always boomer women who treat me like shit. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For awhile I thought this was just my personal random experience. The past few years as Ive moved up in my field Ive started attending more networking events and out of town conferences. Dinners out after daily meetings have led to casual conversation about our working experience and almost all the females Ive met have admitted that our female bosses put us through hell. We all had similar stories and it made me really reflex on what type of boss I am. I really dont think I am like that and make a conscious effort to support all my team members but am curious if something happens along the way that makes women scorin and become one of "those" women bosses. Anyone else notice this? I am in accounting if it matters.

I've actually had the opposite experience, but maybe that is because I am in engineering. My female directors, managers and supervisors were awesome; the men, not so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suspect the OP is not even a woman. What woman repeatedly uses the term “female”? This is some MRA troll out to stir up the rampant misogyny that seethes below the surface of DCUM.

Just shut up. Not everything you disagree with is a a troll or misogynistic. Even if it is a MRA, are they not allowed to post? There are plenty of feminists who post here. They are some of the most sexist posts on this board. Should all feminists not be allowed to post? The OP said in her experience and in the accounting field. Theire are many bosses who are on the spectrum(higher in industries like accounting or law).

[Anonymous]

Nope, as a grad student I wish I had had the sympathetic female boss, instead of my jerk male boss.

[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.

I've found that bosses with children are easier to work with than unmarried bosses with no children.