Women can be more difficult than men

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First female manager of a men's football club in Scotland

I saw this and wondered what others think.

It's great that she's been appointed, less so that Managing Stirling University is a step up from managing Arsenal Ladies but the thing that made me raise my eyebrows was ""I think the management of players is different," Kerr told BBC Scotland. "I think women can sometimes be a little bit more difficult than men. ""

Where I work, this is a popularly held view - women are "difficult". Is she right to have said it, if it's her view?

Men are assertive whilst women are difficult. It is just the same old sexist crap no matter who is spouting it.

Sexist claptrap

It's just misogyny.

Women are more difficult than men? Really? So how many female players have bitten other players, or been convicted of rape?

I know, I know. It worries me that a high profile woman is saying it. Bad enough when men do....

I think you're right, Just.

Arsenal won the women's FA cup, same as the men's team, didn't they?

If she'd actually said, "I've managed a range of personalities before and will do so again" - would the interviewer have let it lie there?

Being interviewed by a professional without putting your foot in it is a skill!

I'd guess that to get to where she's got to in a male dominated field, she'd have to be careful not to frighten the horses with her feminist views, if she has them. Of course it's claptrap but probably makes her seem like she's not "one of those ...".

Maybe she was trying politely to say, "I previously managed a group of intelligent well rounded women who did football, and now I am in charge of a bunch of men who have been molly coddled since the age of 9 and I haven't got to think too hard, just babysit"?