women like that mistake being "bossy" for being the boss.
They also mistake people doing what you tell them for respect.
I know many female lawyers that fall into the "bossy" mistake. you can just tell they are going to die with 20 cats in their house.
"These woman are so used to bossing people around they don't know how to turn it off."
This is true, my Wife is one of those women. She eventually made more money than me in our relationship and I noticed her becoming more aggressive and bossy. She worked with mostly men, so I felt like she had to be that way. I'm not a macho type of guy, so it did'nt bother me too much. I just told her to save that attitude for the office and everythings been cool since then.
The bossiness in sucessful women is part of the problem but a small part. It has a lot to do with most men with their acts together have no desire to humor very successful women's demanding schedules.
Also many women have to sacrifice a lot to get to that point: so they are mid to late 30s and have arrived, but never cultivated a good relationship. Given choice (and men have wide choice with women these days), most men choose to be with a 27 year old women who isn't working late every night over a 37 year old woman who is working late every night. This is true even if, objectively, the 37 year old is somehow more attractive than the 27 year old.
While few single men would turn down a fleeting sexual fling with a very attractive woman, they often have no interest in keeping her as a companion or mate. So we'll seize the opportunity to get over on the 37year old single hot executive babe, but in time we will stop returning her calls.
Since there are plenty of attractive women with more compatible time demands, men have the choice and freely exercise it. They reject some women and accept others. It's entirely fair.
I have a fairly good looking female boss. She's blonde with a nice figure. She's married.
We're lucky she speaks to us once a month. She walks past us with a rare hello. If you do your job, there will be very little contact with her.
Her husband jumps through more hoops than a French minefield. She brings home dogs by the ton and doesn't want kids. She's a political liberal and a fanatical feminist. Sound appealing?