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Men in UK and U.S. seen growing less comfortable with women leaders

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By Annie Banerji

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Worst couple bosses I ever had were men. I've only had a few female bosses, but they aren't near the bottom.

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One female boss in my life. Rich fat husband married the town princess(in mind, not body) both late 30’s, he forked over the money to buy the state franchise rights for a new pizza corp (terrible pizza BTW), and the starter store, and she was in charge. She ran off with the pizza delivery boy. Lol

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years ago, i would say that people,s skepticism regarding women being in powerful positions had to do with women,s inferiority complex ( women vs men ), but nowadays i don,t think there,s any reason not to trust women with power. whether in politics or in a workplace, i believe it ,s all about the individual, and not the gender.

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I know of only one culture even remotely well where female leaders are common, and in fact, the women rule literally everything. Its some remote culture in China and all the men do is drink and gamble. They cannot even own land. There others with female leadership but they are small.

Its almost laughable that anyone ever thought they could buck that human trend without righteous application of the law of negative returns. Yes, we can train masses of women to be leaders totally against their grain, but at what price?

Yes, some women are good leaders and bosses. I have seen and had quite a few. But you also have these horrible ones, such as Janet Reno, Hillary Clinton and Margaret Thatcher that should seriously give you pause.

Everyone just needs to stop questioning gender and only question the person. There are always going to be a minority of great women leaders but that's just fine. The best person for the job. That's all you need to worry about.

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I've had two female Japanese bosses. Both were absolutely terrible. Boss #1 was a tough, cruel, harsh person all the time. Did not care for her workers as human beings. There was a very toxic atmosphere in the office - everyone fought and no one got along. I believe a lot of it stemmed from her. Boss #2 was completely incompetent, and everyone knew it. In order to make up for her incompetency, she conducted business in a very sneaky, non-transparent way. She told different stories privately to different people. Lots of back-stabbing, dishonesty, and "Don't tell anyone I told you this, but..." kind of things going on.

I'm not saying these problems were connected to their gender. Just saying that I'm 0-for-2 on female Japanese bosses.

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I think Britain is regressing as a country, "dumbing down" if you like. This survey result is just another example of this.

I now see British politics as below Japanese politics. I have no love for the LDP, but they do not take money from shady Russian businessmen. Shinzo Abe is not trying to sell of Japan's health system to US insurance companies. When US service people kill Japanese in road accidents, they are not allowed to fly home unpunished.

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I'm perfectly supportive of women in positions of power in politics, business, etc. I've had several female bosses and they've been great.

While I support equality for women in the business and political fields will women also be putting thier hands up for the hard and dirty jobs? Or will these be left to the men?

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I have a female boss, and I think she does a great job. My female co-workers, on the other hand, have had the daggers out for her since she started. They think that the way she communicates is too rough and direct. For me, though, it's great because I appreciate clarity of message without any politics or BS. She seems able to put that aside, but I worry it's taking a toll on her mental health.

Over the years I've had a bunch of female bosses, and the large majority were very good at what they did. Only 2 stick out as not suitable for management.

I think for most men, the issue is probably liberal, female leaders, the reason being that part of their message tends to be perceived as anti-male. Add identity politics to the mix, and you have a female candidate with very little appeal to the average male voter.

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I have had several women bosses and supervisors. Never had a problem with their leadership in terms of them being in a superior position to me even though we disagreed on some things. From an ability standpoint, it is a non-issue.

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The best boss I ever had was a woman. I learned more from her than any other boss I had.

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Never had a woman boss but did work where women were in executive positions. It seemed to me that women had more issues with a woman as their boss than did the men. Maybe for politics it is different. I’d be perfectly OK with a woman as the top national leader.

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