How to deal with male chauvinist pig manager

[Yankeecando]

Just this really. Team of women, male manager. Proper old boys club amongst him and boss above so no point in complaining above his head.
None of us have any respect for him as he’s lazy and will avoid / push work down onto us as every opportunity.
If we ever complain about anything, however small we are accused of being neurotic, hysterical, whinging, hormonal, agitated or any other descriptive word that can be associated with running women down.
He’ll cut you down before you can finish the sentence and Will talk over you before you can finish.
He dresses all of this up by being ‘nice guy’ outwardly but since working from home and we are all only contactable individually it’s become clear he’s bullying the youngest, newest woman in the team but contacting her on her own to demand her work is sped up (she’s struggling WFH as she’s very new to the work).
Our large organisation wouldn’t take any complaint seriously without evidence and he’s careful to only say these things, there’s no way we can ever record then and it’s not written.
He’s big buddies with his manager who will save his skin (another mysoginist).

I just dint know how to go about dealing with this. No one in the team dares raise their head above the parapet as we all need our jobs.

I think I would start by keeping a detailed record of specific examples so you can feedback as and when an opportunity arises. I have handled some awkward situations (not like this) by using 'when you X, it makes me feel Y and this impacts the team in Z' if that makes sense to try and show consequences. Tough one to get him to listen to though

Why can't you record them if he's calling her

I’d be looking for new work tbh.

Otherwise record all his calls.

Can you record Skype calls? That’s how we are being communicated with at the moment.

Without the background you give asking someone to consider their rate of work doesn't seam like an unreasonable request.

Has she expressed why she struggling, asked for support/ further training/ guidance? Does she have a clear understanding of the volume of work required?

I think in her situation I would treat each communication with Mr Mysog as a form of meeting. Take informal minutes and send a follow up email with actions, deadlines, items reliant on actions of others.

This would build up a record of professional conduct, arse cover, should Mr Mysog try to bully or make further threats.