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In reply to the discussion: 67 year old woman here..long and varied work history...Most of my female bosses were horrid. [View all]NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and I've had good and bad bosses of both sexes.
I'd say the best boss I've had was a guy and the worst also (he started off as a big time micro-manager, then somebody must have mentioned it to him because he suddenly became almost a ghost - you'd never see the guy except if it was a last minute crisis)
I'd say in my current company that I've been with for 4 years I've had 3 bosses - 2 women that were good (one very good) and one guy that was so-so. The very good boss wasn't my boss long enough to be rated my best boss ever (she's deservedly very well liked in the company and was quickly promoted over to another department - very smart, but also personable and funny)
I'd say that in general, I've had more good bosses that were women than men, or at least a higher percentage of good bosses.
The best action I've ever had a boss do was from a woman that was my boss about 25 years ago. I was in a large company that was struggling financially at the time and the woman that was my boss at the time said I had done a great job the past year (I was almost expecting to be laid off because of the company struggles) and that I really deserved a raise, but she could not give me one. However, since she had been with the company for a long time and had accumulated a lot of vacation time, she had gotten approval from senior management to donate a week of her vacation time to me. I thought that was really cool giving a young person with potential an extra week of vacation time.