[major_gaff]

That is how it was in Bell Labs when I was there back in the 90's...any
staff engineer with ovaries and heartbeat had a 'rocket tied to her
posterior' as my section chief used to say...and once some, not all, got into
a position of authority, they became world class beyotches, most likely
because they thought, wrongly IMO, was the only way they would garner
respect from their male colleagues.

[Jamestown1630]

A lot of women just don’t know how to handle authority. They’re uncomfortable with it, they don’t have much cultural frame of reference for it, and they overcompensate by trying to act as (they think) men act. They think that’s how to do it, because they don’t KNOW how to do it.