How many bosses do you have? Gender?

[underpants]

I'm just curious.

I have three bosses to whom I report directly. All women.

[LP2K12]

1. Currently

I have two. Both are women.

At my past employer I had two and both were men.

[gwheezie]

2. One boss, female.

I haven't had a male boss in 40 years.

[madinmaryland]

3. All of the management/partners in the firm are male.

Out of over 100 engineers, there are only three females.

[underpants]

4. Yeah

You don't see a lot of women on the railroad

[madinmaryland]

7. Shit dude!! There are more women on the railroad than there are

in the engineering firm i work for. There were a lot on Metro North.



Good one!!

[Go Vols]

11. lol

I usually say,cool,you get to blow the whistle.

[underpants]

12. Yes!

Father-in-law is retired railroad. Norfolk Southern.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. I read a book...

... awhile back titled "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" by Steven Pinker.

I became curious about Pinker, and evolutionary psychologist and linguist, after seeing him take issue with some of Noam Chomsky's ideas. I'm a big fan of Chomsky, but I wanted to get Pinker's viewpoints too.

Anyway, he's got a chapter in that book about gender differences. He made compelling arguments that men and women's brains are indeed inherently different -- on average, not for every individual. One of the statements was that, despite efforts to get more women in math, science and engineering, it's not likely going to help very much if most of them don't WANT to pursue those careers. Women, according to Pinker, tend to have superior abilities in language and social relationships.

[hughee99]

5. I have one "official" boss and two other project managers

That I report to. My boss is male, and both project managers are female.

[emulatorloo]

6. Retired. Last two jobs my immediate supervisors were women. From 1990'ish on.

[Throd]

8. Self-employed. My boss is a dick.

[underpants]

10. Laugh of the day

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. I am the Boss

I answer to an absentee owner who is a man.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. Chain of command

1 up - man
2 up - woman

I'm a woman and have a solid mix - including a younger "forced" retiree.

[Skittles]

14. my boss is female

I have never met her

[underpants]

15. Really?

How can that be?

[Skittles]

20. common in IT

she is in a different state

[TipTok]

16. Straight single chain up to POTUS... All male...

[Demonaut]

17. 1 hetero male

me

[etherealtruth]

18. Straight males own the engineering firm I work for

[mjjoe]

19. Woman

Luckily I've only had to report directly to one person with my current employer. More than one direct boss would drive me insane.

I've worked for the same company 4.5 years. Been promoted twice. All of my immediate bosses have been women in that time.

There are a good mix of male and female leaders in the company, but it happens that my division has more female leaders. People have suggested that it must bother me to be the lone man in meeting rooms full of women. It's a stupid comment, but to be diplomatic I just say that I have three sisters and this situation is no big deal to me.

Actually, it's easier because we're all adults and there's no sibling rivalry.

[TexasProgresive]

21. I'm retired now

but I had 2 women supervisors over time. One was adequate. She had worked in our field and she was a good administrator. This one only gets adequate because she was a bit prejudiced towards the women who worked for her. The other is right up there in the stars of the 3 best supervisors I ever worked under. She was empowering of all those who worked for her. She had very good knowledge of the technical side of our work and she was an excellent administrator. Whenever she got a monetary bonus for the excellence of the work group she shared the largess with us. Her only fault was not so much a fault but ended up causing us to lose her was she would mercilessly attack and department head that tried to make her unit (us) look bad. She made enemies and we lost a great captain. I might still be working if she was still our boss.

That's my experience of close to 50 years work experience. I worked with and for women. What I saw is that gender makes no difference in ability. Just as men can be very good or mediocre the same can be said of women. If some one makes an offhand judgement about someone because of their ethnicity or gender they are dead wrong. They must be judged on merit.

Edit to add- I would've been an awful boss. I never wanted to be boss but I know that I would suck at it. I can work well alone or as part of a team but not in charge. One of the pluses of getting older is you can begin to know who you are. Is that the beginning of wisdom?

[petronius]

22. My 'chain of command' is probably closer to Silly String, but up from

me it goes: me --> male --> female --> male --> female --> male...

[LWolf]

24. It's complicated.

The technical answer is one. He's male. He's my building principal. He observes me, evaluates me, and is my primary "boss."

In reality, the parents of my students are also "bosses" to some extent, and so are the admins at the district level above my boss; my boss' bosses.

Generally, there is supposed to be a protocol that says parents first come to me, then to the building principal, then to the district with their concerns. And the district, for most things, goes to the principal, who goes to me. Except when it's some committee of some kind that I've been placed on; then the district works with us, and we take it back to our principals.

[WillowTree]

25. Two. Both men. Both great guys. Color me fortunate.

For the record, at least half of the senior leadership of this major corporation, including the CEO and her predecessor, are women.

[kestrel91316]

26. None. I AM the boss. VERY small business.

I'm the proverbial big fish in the small pond. More like a teacup.

[blaze]

27. Male

But to be fair, I work in a school cafeteria and the vast majority of the managers are female.

Mine is great to work with!!

[trof]

28. Just one. Miz t. She's a woman.

[littlebit]

29. I have two

Both male. They are both in Indianapolis and I am in Texas. I talk to them on the phone almost every day but I have never met them. Probably never will.

[MineralMan]

30. No bosses.

I've been self employed sine 1974. I have clients, not bosses.

[Iggo]

32. Four. All male. Used to be a fifth, but she retired last year.

[drray23]

33. four up to the potus all male.nt.

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. One female

[trackfan]

35. One permanent boss - a woman.

Another temporary boss - also a woman. I really don't do any work with either of them though. I'm in LA and most of the co-workers I deal with are in New York. I could probably spend several hours a day at a bar, if I was so inclined, and nobody would notice.

[herding cats]

36. I have a business partner who is male.

I am female and we are equal partners. If it's of interest to you; I started the business and brought him in as a partner.

[Godhumor]

38. I'm a manager (male). There person in charge of everything is also a male n/t

[melm00se]

39. In the chain from

me to the CEO: half are women

[Tien1985]

40. 3 superiors, 2 women and a man

Main director is woman, assistant director is a man, direct supervisor is a woman. (Woman-dominated field.)

Last job I had was a mix of men and women, but the heads were all men. (Man-dominated field.)

Job before that, all women. (Woman-dominated field.)

[whistler162]

41. Current job

In the State Division I am in Male, Male, Female
Previous job Male, Female.