I am a woman boss. I mentor the young female workers all the time. Works with some, not others. I don’t know if anyone has an opinion on me just because I’m a woman. I am nice, but I also have high expectations for people. I try and be a place I’d want to work and balance the needs of the business and of the employee. Sometimes they don’t always understand I have a birds eye view and feel the responsibility for everyone. I notice some women just want to do that bare minimum, others want to climb up and learn more and grow. I’ve learned you can’t motivate externally for the long term, but anyone with the desire can move up from their current status.
I’ve had women managers who ended up being awful, a little power can sometimes turn people into power mongers. I have some really good ones now. I just had one woman who was too wishy washy ask to be moved to a different position, I just couldn’t build her confidence and it was easy to see why she was in the situation she was in her life.
I like managing the men in my company. They’re usually more direct and matter of fact. And funny - you get a group of guys together and generally they’ll be pretty funny. I don’t generally mentor the men, my husband will do that. It’s not that I can’t, they for the most part work for the division I only run from a distance.
I want to empower the young women to make decisions, take control of their lives and careers. So many come in so meek and compliant I can see how they’d be taken advantage of at other work places.