WOMEN MANAGERS Written by constipatethebull on 11/17/2011I work in the I.T. (technology) field, a dominantly male field. There are some good females in the field, but for every good female there will be about ten good males. This is just how it is, it's not a slam. Other fields like nursing are just the opposite. Anyway, so the IT field is dominantly male as far as skills and worker bees. HOWEVER, I'm seeing a pattern where there are more female managers than male managers. In my department the director used to be male, and everyone reported to him equally. Then a new female director came in. One of the first things she did was promote six people to subdirectors, five of those being female. The male one is who I report directly to and she makes his and my life a living hell everyday. We have talked about a discrimination case against her. Only one of those five females she promoted is qualified. The director is the least qualified of everyone. This is becoming a common pattern in many IT shops and I don't like it. Why are so many women taking over and ruining things for the rest of us? Read 7 Replies   |   Add a Reply

     

Posted by labtech on 11/18/2011:
We have the reverse problem where I work. Only males are allowed to be management, and there is a LOT of management where I work. The main qualification the males need is the ability to kiss up, real applicable skills simply do not matter; they also get the easy jobs and longer deadlines. For instance; a woman was sent to reorganize the records room, carrying and moving big boxes full of reams of paper up and down ladders, a man was given a light filing job sitting at a desk, same time limit for both. Two females with Master's degrees and experience applied for the last promotion, but the suck-up male with the Bachelor's degree in the non-related field got the promotion. But cheer up, my friend, those women are only making 85% of what a male would make in the same job, so you can argue that the company is saving money and maybe you can get a raise. I'm sorry you feel that women are taking over and ruining things, I've been thinking that about men for years.

Posted by constipatethebull on 11/18/2011:
Labtech if you are in the technology field then there should be more males running the show, just like I would expect to see more head nurses at hospitals be female. Are you implying that the male should have been the one to do the harder job? You can blame the women's libbers of the 1990s for the fact that a female would be given a more physically demanding job like that. The women said "we can do anything a man can do only better" and now they are getting their chance.

Posted by labtech on 11/20/2011:
No, dear friend, you misunderstand. I am not in the 'technology' field, and I don't see why it has to be 'male' oriented, as I'm the female everyone runs to when their PC isn't working right - and it's not my job to fix them, I do that in addition to my assigned work. The computers don't complain that I have girlie cooties. I -do- blame the women's libbers for declaring women can do 'everything', which means my day starts at 6 am and ends at 10 pm, since I also have the unpaid work of taking care of a house, children, laundry, cooking, etc. It was short-sighted of them. I have no fear of hard work though, since I see it so often. But I do have issue with being the mule busy working up a sweat while the men sit around and shuffle paperwork. Now tell me, is it right to have one employee do heavy lifting, while the other just does light filing, same time limit, repeatedly (let's ignore the gender thing for an instant) ? Would you say it's women's work if you, as a male, were told to clean the office kitchen and mop the floors (including the bathroom) ? Walk a mile in my moccassins. Only male bosses in my company, and far too many of them.

Posted by Sphincter Detector on 11/24/2011:
Seems to me it doesn't matter what sex a manger is, the underqualified arseholes are everywhere. More women are entering the IT field because it is flexible ( in most companies) with flex hours, work from home options etc. It stands to reason that the primary reason more women are become managers in IT is simply because there are more women in IT. It's the "percapita ratio" effect. The second resons is because of government mandates and/or inscentives to hire a certain percentage of minorities, disabled, and women etc. So you get unqualified 'token' minority managers that can't manage their way around a tampon string and the company gets to fill the quota.

Posted by constipatethebull on 11/29/2011:
labtech, sounds like there could have been some favoriteism in your situation there, but then again I wasn't there. I'll have to take your word for it that it was how you said. sphincter: IT has flexible hours? Are you serious? I guess I've missed those jobs. Where are they? Can men apply? I've had the IT jobs where I had to drive 80 miles in an ice storm to fix something because the people who were 5 miles away didn't WANT to go out in it. I've had two Christmas days completely sucked by work and ruined because of problems that couldn't wait. I've been told I could not work a second job just in case my main one happens to need me. I've been told that 80 hours a week wasn't enough. Of course the managers making these rules can have their phone in one hand and be holding their children in the other as they shout out the rules, they don't have to go out and actually DO anything.

Posted by Spincter Detector on 12/16/2011:
IT in Canada, very flexible- go to work in sweatpants come in at 10AM leave at 3, work from home 3 days a week.

Posted by Spincter Detector on 12/16/2011:
IT in Canada, very flexible- go to work in sweatpants come in at 10AM leave at 3, work from home 3 days a week. But I think you missed the main focus of my point and I did also say " in many cases', so clearly this is not the case everwhere, not all IT jobs are created equal. That said, not sure what your objection is...

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