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Anonymous wrote:Either men reply on here about their "evil women" bosses, or the women on here can't flirt and hug and bat their eyelashes and baby blues at their women bosses.

You sound embarrassingly retro grandpa.

It's embarrassing the way women have an issue with other women, like it's a Disney movie and your boss who is a woman is "evil", like the evil stepmother from Cinderella.

Anonymous wrote:Either men reply on here about their "evil women" bosses, or the women on here can't flirt and hug and bat their eyelashes and baby blues at their women bosses.

You sound embarrassingly retro grandpa.

Anonymous wrote:Either men reply on here about their "evil women" bosses, or the women on here can't flirt and hug and bat their eyelashes and baby blues at their women bosses.

Nope. Not sure where you're coming from but your post is off base.

Either men reply on here about their "evil women" bosses, or the women on here can't flirt and hug and bat their eyelashes and baby blues at their women bosses.

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I was a fed and I felt supported by both my male and female bosses. Then I was at a law firm and I felt as supported as anyone else, meaning there is was no difference in support between the men and women, IMO. Which doesn't mean that the support was great, necessarily. Just that it was as supportive for the men as for the women. Now, I'm at a consulting firm and feel supported just fine.

I'm a fed and have only been supported when I had male bosses. I can't even tell you how many evil women I've worked for.

I've found that if you want to be supported, create your own support. I actively only hire kind people when hiring. I refuse to work with people who have attitudes and I also don't want that on my team. I've also created working groups that have been very helpful professionally.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I joined Women in Government Relations (WGR) 35 years ago. I found women lobbyists to be very supportive of each other.

Me too!! Only I joined 25 years ago

Nice!

I never clicked with WGR in my brief stints as a member, but agree that government relations has very supportive women in it. I think its because it heavily relies on interpersonal skills and networking. We aren't competing against each other because we aren't direct coworkers (usually) and instead represent a small subset of our company or trade association. There's a lot of room for women to help women in government relations. Whether your company or association is a supportive place for women may differ.