Do you prefer male or female managers? And why?

[smahala1991]

In my personal experience, Male managers seem the easiest to get along with., However, female managers seem to be fairer.

[sunflower00]

I don’t really prefer male or female managers, I prefer good managers. I’ve had some horrific male and female managers, and some great ones for both too. I worked in a restaurant and they changed managers often because it was just a disaster. My 3 favourites were two men and one woman - they were all very positive, friendly and fair. Meanwhile another two men and one woman had a weird power thing going on and ultimately ruined the business, they were rude, did illegal things and just sucked.


Another male manager I had in a different restaurant took advantage of me so he was awful. The place was run by a few men and they all had weird power issues too, had bad anger problems and tantrums, and so on. They kind of sucked but one of them was ok…


Currently I have one male sort of manager (involved owner) and one female sort of manager (has the title manager but doesn’t manage) - the man is pretty awful, he basically bullies his staff, has no empathy, is really sexist and racist. The woman is lovely, such a nice person and easy to get on with but she doesn’t really want to be a manager so just like…refuses to manage and gets us to do our very busy jobs as well as her jobs with no clear leadership. Nightmare.

[Bethany22]

Since I'm just starting out working maybe I prefer male managers, and learn from them what the traditional rules of the work world are, as opposed to female managers who might still be figuring them out and shifting their weight around to cover up their insecurities

[Pudsmucker]

I have found the same. The best manager I've had in my career is a female she would listen to us in our concerns. She set up a training program once a month where we talk about our jobs and how to improve them what to do about issues that we face. After our lunch that we had that we finished about 12:00 we would disappear for the day. Unless we had a project going on that needed our attention.

[Adam1978]

I don't need a manager, I manage my own stuff myself. So I usually don't care because I have very little contact with them.

[Nikki1989]

Males are easier to get along with if you are a woman.

[TrueConfection]

Women tend to be better organisers, but they can bring drama and come across as edgy. They tend to act as if any suggestion that is not their own is somehow an attack on their ability to do their job. I prefer men for that reason.

[Pink2000]

Definitely prefer male managers. They’re more laidback

[NathanDavis]

had made no difference to me...

I just prefer good managers over the bad ones, regardless of gender

[NewsReader]

Male. Easier to understand, easier to get along with, more logical, and just better thinkers.

[Sevenpointfive]

i've never met a manager that i've liked regardless of their gender

[AviatorTom]

I've had both male and female managers. Not much difference between them.

[alice55]

I prefer whoever like me best

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Female managers

[Blackcupcake]

I’ve had both, and I choose male.