Why do many women say that a workplace dominated by women often becomes dysfunctional, especially if the boss is a woman?

Men are easier to work with, but women are easier to bullshit. My experience 🤷‍♂️

Yes, OP.

My boss micro-manages the entire business. Only she can do the work. And she needs to take care of everything personally.

Down to replacing the tiny print cartridge on my adding machine. 🫤

My experience is just the opposite, OP. All the women bosses I've had have been great. Fantastic. Supportive, competent, and just great to work for.

I've not found this to be the case. But I work in an industry dominated by women, not just a specific workplace in a male-dominated industry.

I am so happy you guys got to meet and know every female supervisor in the entire world! You certainly must have a wide acquaintance.

Now -- do you want me to tell you what gay men are like as supervisors? I've had my share of those.

Maybe your female bosses don't appreciate employees who ask questions they intend to answer themselves.

My female supervisors are the best.

I have not had good experiences with women bosses.

All the worst bosses I've ever had in my life were male bosses.

The top three best bosses I've ever had were a mixture of men and women.

My best (female) friend was pried away from a high paying job with male bosses to a female workplace where she was guaranteed sisterhood, non-lesbian. She said it was like high school. Bitchy one upsmanship, lack of team work and most bizarrely, the lack of male influence caused the workers to turn on one and other in the most menial circumstances. Because so and so did something to so and so last month, it meant that they couldn't work together on a project. She fled, screaming.

I had women bosses but I only disliked one and she was a former Marine.

They don't

The DL MRA brigade just wants to attack women

There’s a distinction, I’ve found, amongst heterosexual and homosexual men and women in the workplace and how good they are as leaders.

Maybe there is a tendency for one gender or another to be harder to work with but in my experience it’s really the individuals involved that often define the group dynamic. I have worked in a lot of short term group situations. Many of them with a near gender numbers balance. I personally often will have a harder time taking instructions from women who have a giving orders to the soldiers like approach. Men are often more diplomatic or that’s what I recall. I have had female managers that were totally great to work for. Those same managers received complaints from other women that they were treating them unfairly. There is definitely gender dynamics that come in to play that have to be navigated.

R13 and DL would be one of the only places to admit that lesbians are generally great bosses, gay men not so much.

It's an even split for me, based on experience. All people suck.

R15 I didn’t want to come out and say that, but yep pretty much.

Most of my professional mentors were women and my best bosses were women as well. But I’m a gay man and I think that made a difference.

As good, as tolerant and as creative as my women bosses were, they sometimes had problems with other women in the office, and the worst work atmosphere I’ve ever experienced was where the office was mainly women with just a few guys. — The grudges, passive-aggressive behavior and loaded silences made for a terrible atmosphere. And most of the women I’ve worked with have been very honest about the fact that they preferred to work with men or in offices with a lot of guys.

Of course I do too but for other reasons . . .

My experience working with women is that they work very hard and are easy to get along with but their absenteeism drove me nuts. If they had school age children then forget it, they were a part time employee at best.

Men were always a mixed bag. Some were the laziest bullshitters alive. Just worthless individuals. Some were great.

That crap about “women uplifting other women” is just bullshit. Many women ,depending on what kind of environment they came out of, can become envious and resentful of someone they perceive as having more or better.

They will then make life for that person living hell, which then feeds an already toxic work place

People are people. He-She-Them, whoever, are good and bad managers and all managers are humans who have flaws. Staff members are also a mixed bag. And those that tend to blame quality of leadership on the leader's sex are particularly... interesting.

I have a woman boss and a male direct supervisor. Both are fine to work with.

The support staff (office) is 90% women, though. They are more of a problem than my woman boss. However, I do wish she (boss) would take the bull by the horns and squash some of the petty shit that goes on. It's petty, but collectively, it lowers morale. For me, at least.

On top of that, I just had to chip in for Administrative Professionals' Day, which is tomorrow, I think.

Agree with R21. Also if you can’t work with a woman, or you don’t get along with multiple colleagues, then you’re just not a very competent worker, and you have a personality problem. Similar situation with the type of person that has a lot of friends that they’re not friends with anymore.

I’ve worked for women, for men and I’ve never had a problem with anyone. There’s always so much projection in these threads lmao.

It's the truth. I love working with women in two-person teams (I like working with men too, it makes no difference for me). Larger teams I prefer to be mixed. The female bosses I had were deranged, and I mean they had spent time inside a psychiatry or were otherwise paranoid and/or deluded.

You cannot get a bunch of women together without having problems

I wholeheartedly agree with R20

In my experience, when it comes to power women tend to operate in extremes: they're either excellent or nightmarish monsters. The best managers I have had have been mostly women, but some of the very worst have also been females. Men, on the other hand, tend to gravitate towards the middle of the scale in most regards, although I have had more male bosses who were utter lunatic psychopaths than good ones.

However, I have noticed that environments where there are many women, especially middle-aged ones, tend to become toxic very quickly. Men also do gossip, spread rumours and behave like insufferable cunts, but women tend to take things to horrifying levels and are always the first ones to start defamation and bullying campaigns over nothing - in fact, the petty envy of female colleagues over the most trivial matters imaginable, has been the constant cause for MANY of the problems I've witnessed at work. Still, this doesn't excuse men, who have a very narrow pack mentality and mindlessly target anyone who is disliked by those in power like feral beasts.

In short, women are very problematic, but men are not that far behind in terms of sheer obnoxiousness.

A huge number of women will spin narratives and play psychological games and will get HR involved over situations they create but blame on someone else. Scary fucking cunts. Stay in the kitchen.

I've had very positive experiences with female bosses and managers. I've had truly awful experiences with black and gay co-workers.

How DARE you R29!

Men want to undress you, women just want to dress you down.