Gender Gap Continues to Grow

I enjoy watching “To The Contrary” on Sunday mornings because the topics are often a little bit outside of the general political discussion.  Frequently they discuss gender issues and this weekend was no exception.  Aside from the fact that there is no surprise between the narrow mindedness spouted by the Republican representatives and the “normal” point of view of the Democrats it was interesting to realize that the gender gap seems to be widening rather than narrowing after 40 decades of “Women’s Liberation”.

As chance would have it last week I was visiting with some former colleagues and we happened to have a discussion on female bosses.  It is really interesting to hear how many women dislike female bosses and those bosses who appear particularly firm are seen as aggressive, cocky and/or arrogant.  Characteristics of authoritativeness in men are seen as aggression in women, no surprise there and yet I would have thought that women in general would have gotten past that very biased viewpoint. 

I can tell you that I have worked for female bosses and I have enjoyed working with them.  I think it behooves women to take a step back from their judgments and understand that female bosses have to take a very strong position in order to maintain their authority and continue their climb to the upper echelons of corporate power.  They are not doing anything differently from men, but they are (perhaps) behaving differently than less achieving women.  But they are not doing anything wrong.  It’s those who are judging them that are in the wrong.

As I see it.