Why I'd Rather Work For A Man Than A Woman
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#3Why do people continually upvote trash from forbes.com?
If you want a concrete example of a woman that blows away men in the criteria that the author chose, consider Margaret Thatcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher)
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#4I salute a troll of the purest kind.
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#5Why do people continually upvote trash from forbes.com? If you want a concrete example of a woman that blows away men in the criteria that the author chose, consider Margaret Thatcher ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher )
In order to paint a picture one must occasionally use the odd broad brush stroke.
Identifying common traits of a group, if those those traits are correctly identified, doesn't conflict with the possibility than not all members of a group may have those traits.
We on HN commonly discuss eg, the entrepreneurial culture of the US vs other countries. I don't see this as being significantly different.
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#7This is a fluff piece and is barely coherent. But one thing I have observed is that my female coworkers have a harder time getting along with the female bosses than the male ones. I remember one especially tense project where my team lead was female(very experienced, smart and a pleasure to work with) and another one of the team members was female. She was also smart although less experienced than me. I got along great with both of them although they could not stand each other. I ended up having to be the go-between, taking tasks from the lead to the junior engineer and taking status back up the other way.
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#8Why do people continually upvote trash from forbes.com? If you want a concrete example of a woman that blows away men in the criteria that the author chose, consider Margaret Thatcher ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher )
In order to paint a picture one must occasionally use the odd broad brush stroke. Identifying common traits of a group, if those those traits are correctly identified, doesn't conflict with the possibility than not all members of a group may have those traits. We on HN commonly discuss eg, the entrepreneurial culture of the US vs other countries. I don't see this as being significantly different.
This article consisted of three very broad, virtually meaningless brushstrokes.
I'm not opposed to articles that aren't "PC" but seriously, if you're going to make these types of claims based on "fifteen years of experience", you need to go into much more depth and tie into secondary sources.
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#9The opinion expressed in the article is the very definition of unjust prejudice.
Here we have a person who refuses to work for a person for no other reason than she is female. That is an unjust reason. It's no better than refusing to work for someone who is black, or gay, or any other non-relevant trait.
A woman certainly can be a satisfactory supervisor. I work for a woman who is an excellent boss. Come to think of it, she's probably the best manager I've ever met.
Also, if the author is an independent contractor and discriminating against clients for reasons of gender alone, there might be legal concerns in addition to the obvious moral ones.
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#10Why do people continually upvote trash from forbes.com? If you want a concrete example of a woman that blows away men in the criteria that the author chose, consider Margaret Thatcher ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher )
The reason Thatcher was so successful though is that she worked like a man. You don't earn the "Iron Lady" nickname for being the one to talk to around the water cooler.
That said, although I like the sentiment it was a pretty rubbish article, if you could even call it that.
It's also quite clear that gender has little to do with it aside from the likelihood of a particular gender to have the more positive traits in question.