[freespirited]

This isn’t the first time I have seen a poll or study with precisely this result. In fact I cant recall ever seeing a contrary result.

[Tennessee Nana]

Yeppers when I was younger I preferred to work for a male boss..

Less likely to knife you in the back...

[Deb]

The study is exactly right. Unfortunately, (even in show business) there is no “sisterhood”

[bigbob]

Damn right. “Now honey, bring me a cuppa coffee and stop over your lunch hour and pick up my wife’s dry cleaning” ;-)

[George from New England]

And it maybe safe to also say and even more so, that males prefer not to work for female bosses.

[rintense]

I would agree with the poll. Though my favorite boss was a female, my least favorites were also female. Too much ‘sexual politics’ going on. And too much back stabbing.

[AppyPappy]

I have worked for both. Male bosses are less likely to say “You know why” when you really don’t.

[hosepipe]

Evidence: Most women are democrats.. liberal.. and bred for thousands of years to spend other peoples money..

[<1/1,000,000th%]

My wife says the same thing.

[McGruff]

they're 'better managers and less prone to moods'

I agree but if I used those words I'd end up in HR.

[Moonman62]

I had a multiple male managers with near violent mood swings, but not one female.

[BossLady]

The main component I have always used in a supervisory capacity is humor and secondly is logic. This combo has yet to let me down...even in the years I worked as a producer in Hollywood. I managed to keep a good balance on set between union and non-union workers, director, clients etc. It does take a certain personality...male or female....to handle and/or plan for arising situations while keeping the flow of production uninhibited.

The key to a good working team is to be one of those you want to hire. The right people for the job will just show up to work for you! ;)

[OrangeHoof]

My last female boss spent much of her time trying to get people fired. She had a corner office and she would take the person in her doghouse and assign them to the desk that was most visible from her office. Then if there was any BS projects to do, she would assign it to the one in the doghouse. Things would eventually come to a head and, by that time, she had a list of failures (real or imagined) to present as grounds for firing. Then, once the firing took place, she soon had someone else moved to that same desk. And the cycle began again.

But being her friend was treacherous too. She had two underlings who were her drinking buddies on Friday nights. They chummed and palled around away from work. But when it came time for the annual job appraisal, this boss would *bury* them so they couldn't be approved for transfer/promotion. That way, she wouldn't be losing her drinking pals.

I've also had women bosses who were wonderful but, unfortunately, most of them were queen bees that cared more about power than results. They delegated so that they wouldn't have to actually think about solving problems. They made the people below her fix the problems so she had an easy target to blame should anything go wrong.

That's not to say men are perfect bosses either. But, at least in my experience, men are less stressful to have as bosses because there seems to be less jousting going on and the men are more willing to own the work given them rather than shuffle them to others.

Your miles may vary.

[chris_bdba]

I’ve never been screamed at by a male boss I have had that done by a female boss. Male bosses seem to be easier to please while female bosses think if you do a good job then next time you should do more. I’ve always been happier while working for a male.