My take on terrible female bosses

I am all for feminism and women breaking through the glass ceiling and making their names in the big league BUT I also believe in facts and fair situational analysis. Of late I have been zooming in on women in positions of power. A lot of studies and researches have been carried out on who makes better bosses men or women??? I have thought long and hard and observed far and wide and this is what I have come up with….

There truly are some women who make terrible bosses. The transformation seems to occur soon after they are appointed into positions of authority. 

There I said it and I don’t feel bad about it because there is some truth to it.

Someone women must be frowning at me but let me explain. I have noticed that there are two scenarios that drive women to be bosses from down under.

Scenario 1

There are female bosses who think that in order for them to be taken seriously they have to become stern (overly stern). They reason that being understanding and warm will be perceived by subordinates as signs of weakness. Their conclusion is that being the person they were before the promotion is not good enough, oblivious to the fact that the promotion is a vote of confidence in their abilities the way they are.

I have noticed that policewomen are usually more unreasonable than their male counterparts.

Scenario 2

There is a certain type of subordinate usually male who drives women to become terrible bosses. He is rude, talks back, doesn’t follow instructions, questions decision, etc. All the characteristics of an insubordinate subordinate. This man drives his female boss to be a person even she doesn’t recognise. He is not like that with the male superiors, heck no, with those its fist bumps, high fives and laughs all the way. It’s just the female boss who brings out the worst in him to the extent that she brings out the worst in herself as a direct response.

As you can see I have been fair in my assessment; there are female bosses whose The Devil wears Prada persona is a direct result of their own actions and others who are pushed over the edge by archaic men who do not understand that patriarchy has no place in the workplace (but that’s another post for another day).