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Even Girlbosses Can’t Stand The Office Environments Feminism Built

How ironic that the feminist labor movement that promised to liberate women may actually vitiate their happiness and undercut the successful work they hoped to find.

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“The share of women in heterosexual marriages who make as much or more than their husbands has nearly tripled over the past five decades, according to the Pew Research Center,” The Washington Post notes this week. Another report from last year found that women now comprise almost half of managers in the United States, an increase of more than 50 percent from 1980, and one that is occurring across a host of professional categories. And, as was reported last month, women accounted for almost all new job hires in August.

Feminists laud this as an unqualified victory in the march toward equality in all things. But is it good for work? What we know about female leadership, and my own experiences as a manager, would suggest perhaps not so much.

When Men Lead Well, Everyone Benefits

“This has been beyond a doubt the best office I have ever worked in.” As a supervisor, the comment was an honor, but it was particularly remarkable coming from a woman in an office culture that was almost entirely male. My employee was a hard-charging, demonstrably successful young woman with a graduate degree from one of the most left-wing private universities in the country. She was not the only woman (or man) to express such a sentiment during my time as a supervisor in that particular position. 

When I was part of an office leadership team that was almost exclusively male, the dynamics were about as antithetical to the stereotypes as you can get; indeed, a significant body of research shows there is little-to-no difference in abusive male versus female supervision. There was no “toxic masculine” chest-thumping, nor was there any sexual harassment or innuendo. There was no observable favoritism toward certain men. All the male managers were family men, though apart from me, none of them were particularly religious. All of us had served in either Afghanistan or Iraq. 

Without a doubt, this male-dominated leadership fostered a result-oriented,........

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