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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most terrible bosses are women.[/quote]

Yup.[/quote]

Nope[/quote]

Sorry but I have to agree - as a woman.  I believe it’s because these women feel like they have to function using a male approach/style but it comes across as controlling and angry.  I have seen this many times.  The fact is that the modern workplace was designed for a male workforce and we just haven’t progressed in terms of valuing female leadership styles - despite the volumes of data showing that women are more effective and efficient in leadership roles than men.[/quote]

This, and I've observed that women without kids are particularly harsh as supervisors of working moms. Like if a female subordinate is perceived as too devoted to their family, that's ruining it for all the #girlboss types.

There's a real "I suffered [sexism/misogyny] and you must suffer, too, to prove yourself" mentality particularly among Boomer or elder Gen X women. E.g. looking down on women for wanting to take longer maternity leaves because when they (the bosses) were coming up, they only got a few weeks.

That being said I have also had phenomenal female bosses, some of that generation.

And I'm both a mom and an ambitious hustler, fwiw. At no point in my career did I want to "scale back" or any such thing. But this is a thing. The most mom-friendly bosses I've had were men with kids whose wives had a career.[/quote]

I agree, my boss is retiring and for a boss he was as good as it gets--he has a wife in the same field but different bend that makes probably double and they have kids....now Im getting someone who i despise--and I dread it..I dont know how i will survive...[/quote]

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