I’ve had both, though more female. I don’t agree that there are any male-boss versus female-boss tendencies. They were all individuals, and as such had their own idiosyncratic strengths and weaknesses. I find this “male bosses are X and female bosses are y” very dated, 1970s and reductionist. I’ve had two male bosses whose empathy was off the charts. I agree with calmom here.