67 year old woman here..long and varied work history...Most of my female bosses were horrid.

[Aristus]

14. A long time ago, I worked in a bank. My supervisor was a woman, and her boss was, too.

The supervisor was terrible to me. She would deliberately put me in all kinds of situations that made me look as if I was disobeying her, then she would report me to her boss.

After enough of these situations would occur, I would get called in for a talk with the boss. She was sympathetic to my case, and even told me she knew the supervisor was doing it deliberately. She had gotten several people fired for essentially made-up reasons. She never got around to saying why the supervisor's own behavior wasn't grounds for firing, or at least for disciplinary action.

I never attributed the supervisor's actions to the fact that I was a man; just that she was vicious, and used to getting her own way.

The workplace situation is much different now. As a medical provider in a clinic, I'm shown a great deal of deference, and could probably get away with a ton of shit. The clinic has a chronic shortage of medical providers, and as a result, no one wants to offend one of us so that we pack up and leave. But acting like a workplace asshole is not how I've ever rolled. So I've built a strong, cohesive team that loves working together. Several of my staff have told me that if I ever leave the company, they want to go with me. That's very gratifying.