Do female leaders and managers make better managers ?

[MrsPhilippaPippaVoss]

theres often talk about females being better than men and that if women had control of the world etc the world would be better and since they have not achieved that yet, part of the question can be answered by me asking do females / women make better managers than males and why ?

Jesus help us

Unfortunately all the women I’ve had as managers have been complete fucking cows

Well....

Liz Truss - tanked economy in a few days

Rachel Thieves - not exactly winning the hearts and minds of the country

Maggie Thatcher - undermined the power of the unions to grievous effect

Angela Rayner - fraudster

Elizabeth Bathory - most prolific serial killer known to mankind

Bloody Mary - burned hundreds of protestants at the stake

Catherine de' Medici - instrumental in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

Ranavalona I - burned/boiled people alive. Killed much of the population through forced hard labour etc.

Wu Zetian - poisoned family members - had political rivals tortured etc.

Queen Fredegund - many assassinations

Probs many more.

so we then put all women in charge sit back with popcorn and think bloody jesus christ

no. HTH

Yes, there are bad women managers, but there are many, many bad men managers, too.

Not in my experience no. I would have a male boss over a female boss all day long.

I have had more male managers than female, but both my best and very worst managers were female. The men have all been sort of middlingly fine. The really good manager was phenomenal, she was so inspiring and a genuinely great leader, the worst almost caused me to have a nervous breakdown and disappointingly lived up to every tired stereotype I've ever heard about female leadership.

Some people are good and natural leaders, or at least are self aware enough to be conscious of, and work on, areas of weakness. Some people are rubbish and have no self awareness. I don't think sex or gender come into it at all, really.

Do you ever aspire to be a manager yourself?

Tomas Chamorto-Premuzic wrote Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? He says we value the wrong traits looking for leaders. The argument would hold true for women as much as men. It is not a question of someone's sex, but their abilities to plan, organise, communicate, listen, etc. Men and women can both do this well, or badly, but we tend to prefer charismatic personality more than proven ability in the areas which really matter in leadership.

Not really. I owned a business for a decade and was much better just working alone and pulling 12 hour days. I did subcontract but I ended up doing most of the work myself and paying too well, so it didn’t work out.

I suppose I’ve had to step into a managerial role a couple of times and did a moderately good job. My problem is I can’t really deal with the scatty and idle. I get frustrated. I just expect everyone to crack on with stuff like i do and when they meander and prevaricate I just think I’ll do it myself, I see myself as more of a worker than a delegator. I always say that in every past life I’ve been in i would have been a peasant and a wench, a farm hand and a labourer.