1) Women aren't comfortable with leadership. They generally feel comfortable making passive aggressive suggestions, which is not leadership. If they do want to be explicit in their leadership, they don't know how to do it and end up being Boss Bitches who just order people to do things on a whim.
2) Women aren't comfortable with following. Hey! Why aren't they in charge?? Who made you the boss? Her ideas are perfectly good! Fight the patriarchy and put her in charge!! She's not going to do what you say -- she's going to do it her way!
This can result in a crazy pendulum effect: I should be in charge! OMG! I can't handle this responsibility -- you should be in charge! Hey! Who made you the boss?I should be in charge! OMG! I can't handle this responsibility -- you should be in charge! Hey! Who made you the boss? I should be in charge!
I really think we need to find a way back to a one-income family. Find a way to make that work. Women an have total control of the home, and men can have control of the workplace. I suppose I'm a jerk, but after long observation, I am convinced that this makes the most sense.
I agree with your sentence number three because you do not use the word “most” instead of implying “all.” I had many bosses over a long career, two of whom were outstanding female leaders.
I also had male bosses, some of whom who were outstanding leaders and two who were the opposite.
The problem is it drives men away from wanting to be a part of the group, and has driven them away from wanting to work for police departments led by women. It is also happening in politics, where good men just don’t want to bother will all the BS.
I don’t think you are a jerk. This hole we have dug though will never be easy to get out of. Going back to two children, one car and a 1200 square foot home being a normal good life is a huge step back from where we are now.
Post war men are as guilty as the women in creating this mess. Women were economic prisoners of men who did not take care of their responsibilities correctly and the women, or at least their daughters, revolted.
I had all boys. I wonder often what I would have encouraged my children to do if they had been girls.