Is your boss female or male?

She's a woman.

My headteacher is male, but some people would say that he wasn't exactly my boss.

male

Female

female

i am my own boss

My boss is male, and his boss is male. Although his opposite number at a different site is female.

I'm currently unemployed.

Female. I only work part-time.

Do you work? I thought you were still in school.Or you do both?

My boss is currently male. The one who I considered my boss a few weeks ago has just left. She was lovely. No, I mean it- really lovely.

No, she's my principal. I used her as my boss in the other boss survey, so I might as well in this one

Female. She's tasty.

Supervisor is female; manager of dept. is male.

I have two jobs, one of them is male and the other one, I have 2 female bosses.

I'd like to boss you around

Where is the option for having both a male and a female boss???

I have a female boss and a male boss.

My big boss is male, but I answer directly to both male and female bosses. My experience, and that of both male AND femal colleagues is that female bosses SUCK and usually have giant chips on their shoulders and are on power trips.

Here's something surprising...

Out of 2 Assistant Director's, 5 Producer/directors, 2 Senior Producers, a production manager, an assistant GM, and a GM who work above me... there are 0 women.

The women have all been 'promoted' to office positions.

Though, women usually aren't very well suited to careers in production... "Good visual spatial skills, good engineering skills, good at working in a high stress environment, advanced leadership skills, strong physical constitution (for hanging those 50 pound lights), good at working with tools..."

I hate to say it but 10 men fit that profile for every woman.

Hmmm...
How odd.
On the independent film I worked on as a production assistant:

1st AC: woman
Continuity/script supervisor: woman
Best Boy: girl(daughter of the gaffer who was training her and his other teenage daughter to do his job, those girls didn't have any trouble lifting those lights)
Art director: woman
Location manager: woman
Properties manager: woman
Three other production assistants were woman and we carried and lifted and set up and tore down with no problems.


Are you in television? Movies? what?

Though, women usually aren't very well suited to careers in production... "Good visual spatial
skills, good engineering skills, good at working in a high stress environment, advanced
leadership skills, strong physical constitution (for hanging those 50 pound lights), good at
working with tools..."

1st AC Counting Days
1st AC and Continuity/Script supervisor
1st AC up on the boom truck
Continuity/Script Supervisor Counting Days
and again

You better not tell these women that...or the dozens I've worked with in community theatre who direct, produce, build and tear down sets and basically rise to the occasion alongside and many times outshining their male counterparts.

Ask Topper about good visual spatial skills. Ask jen about women engineers. Ask Suebee about strong physical constitution(lifting multiple 50lb bags of feed and loading 100 lb bales of hay into peoples cars and trucks, by hand...alone...every day she works!)not to mention, working with tools. Ask any of the working mothers here about high stress environments and strong leadership.

I tell you all this to help to broaden your narrow views of what women are suited for beyond what you personally have seen and experienced. The world is a big place and there are millions of woman well suited for production work.

Entirely different realm than TV. I should have specified. In any event.

It's a widely accepted psychological fact that men and women are different. We don't think the same way. Women are better at certain things, men are better at certain things. There are even a couple categories where the 1.5 deviation above normal for one group is still weaker than the 1.5 deviation *below* normal for the other.

It's not about what I've personally seen and experienced. There are differences. These differences result in women and men being better suited for different occupations. It's that simple. It's self evident... it's been known since the beginning of time when the women were picking berries and the men were out hunting.

Just because, for 40 years in the late 20th century 20-40% of the population was BS'ed or cajoled into believing (or pretending to believe ;) otherwise, doesn't mean that 2000 years from now it won't still be true, and that 2000 years from now most people won't still know it.

On the subject of engineers...

I don't know Jen. Even if I did I wouldn't know her job description. Even if I did know her job description it would be unfair and uncouth for me to criticise/praise her work as a case study. And even then, it's a single case. Using my 10-1 rule there will probably be a good number of exceptions, I make general statements.

I know some male psychologists too... when it comes to dealing with female patients, they work FIVE TIMES as hard to do half the job. It just works out that way sometimes. The difference is that we aren't afraid to admit it. BTW, there are 3 female psychs for every male and 4 male engineers for every female.

Now, personally, I have a strong background in relationships with women, so when I become a psychologist, I'll probably only have to work 3 times as hard to do 1/2 of the job.

The exception proves the rule :) And you didn't address, even indirectly, my factual statement...

Ten men fit that profile for every woman.

Confident, Strong, Good Visual Spatial Skills, Works Well Under Stress, Strong Leadership Abillities.

I just described a man, or a VERY VERY VERY millitant butch lesbian.

Understanding, dedicated, patient, determined, compassionate, helpful, good team worker, good written and oral communication skills, general creative abillity, well mannered and professional...

I just described a female. We both know it.

Don't get me wrong, men are sometimes 'professional' after they turn 35... but even then they occasionally talk about wanting to fudge Charlotte Church in a room full of clients...
:).


The male character traits, aptitudes, etc. make us the people leaders and mechanical/mathematical/chemical/physical geniuses.

The female character traits and aptitudes make them the worshipped, beloved, kind souls.

Personally, I'm jealous of a couple of the female traits, but I settle for trying to develop them as opposed to claiming I already posess them.

Now, here's the surprising thing... and you should dig this a little....


Men are VERY VERY good at understanding systems which follow simple, 1-1 rule patterns. A whole whole whole whole bunch of simple rules put together, and we are on top of it. ONE complex rule and we fell off the train. IF-Then is what we are good at.

Women on the other hand can follow systems with simple 1-1 rules fairly easily... until they start getting BIG, and then they fall apart. On the other hand, they understand systems of complex relatiopnships (not necessarily rules) like no man ever will. IF this, then maybe this or maybe this or maybe this....

Is what women are good at. Unfortunately for women, the vast majority of the nonhuman world follows if-then rules.

Fortunately for women, art, psychology, and biology... don't have hard and fast rules. They are if maybe maybes.

So, it's safe to say that men have the computational power, and women have the abstract conceptual power...

I"ve had enough of this talk. Men are better at TV :)

Women start by learning WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DO THIS... and then from there they don't even bother trying to make sense out of it... (why it happened) they could care less.... they learn those relationships REALLY well...

Men try to predict what will happen if they do something using a set of if-then rules... it works well until you run into a problem that's bigger than your brain is (like another human being) at which point you end up being wrong more often than not.

What will happen if. X..?

A woman will ask " Well, what happened last time?"

A man will ask "This is what should happen based on the diagram I've constructed."

You run the scenario and it turns out the woman is right...

Man says

"I'll have to alter the diagram a little bit."

woman says "The same thing will happen next time! Why not just accept that Y follows x and quit trying to explain the method by which it happened!"

Man says "But it makes no sense! My diagram says Y should NOT follow X and I either have to change the diagram or change what happens when Y occurs."

(So he sets out to change the machine-- Effective...
Occasionally he sets out to change a PERSON-- INeffective.)

She just says (Well, that's what THIS machine does, let's just leave it like that and see if we can find a use for it.
OR she says 'That's just Justin, let's try to get along with and have fun with him the way he is...')

We just work differently. Men are bottom up thinkers... THe answers we want are WHY did this happen, how can I diagram how this happened... etc. What can I change to make this happen differently.

(What SHOULD happen).

Women are top-down thinkers... what actually happens...and why even bother trying to explain it... let's focus on how can we accomadate this happening and let's focus on what we can do to make everyone feel good about what has happened...

(This is what happened. Let's move from there.)


Men are 'Solution oriented' thinkers... let's stop the problem from happening again.

Women are DAMAGE control thinkers... 'let's stop anyone from getting hurt.'


There are just differences. There's no two ways about it. Men are better at the high stress pulse doubling situation of the guests showing up 3 minutes before you go live and having to change the HOST'S KEY LIGHT and get everyone in position in 2 minutes and 45 seconds now. We just function better in that situation.

Women could do set design and graphics design, and other conceptual aspects for a program... but men are better at making it happen.

A woman might come up with a good idea which she eloquently explains to a man who breaks it down into 'how is this going to happen?" and starts distributing marching orders.

When I think production I think PRODUCTION PRODUCTION. As in MAKING IT HAPPEN, the then and there. A lot of the things you named are what I'd call 'pre production' or 'post production'.

Male

All 3 of them are male

a female, but I haven't checked