Anecdotally, the best woman manager I ever had was a woman; the worst was also a woman. Overall, I have found that the reserach you quote is quite true for first line managers (just above grunts); women tend to be better: more humane, more flexible, more supportive, more socially and operationally intelligent. Unfortunately, in my experience, once you get above that level I have never observed a difference. Once they break through the glass ceiling, they behave just like men and support the same system wholeheartedly. ******************************************************
Agreed. Once the glass ceiling is shattered, class interests prevail.
The best management would be a non-sexist self-management. But then, we'd need to abolish wage-slavery to get that far. In the meantime we suffer, for the most part, under the relatively worse management of those, "grey, grey men who lick policemens' buttons clean"--the ones in the flannel suits.
For the works! Mike B)
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