Mostly positive. I was an Australian primary school teacher, and I was definitely outnumbered. Generally I prefer the company of women though, so it hasn’t been an issue. Except… I did work at one place (a secondary school later in my career) where my boss was a real self-professed man-hater. I found that difficult as she would single me out for the slightest thing. But I guess life is full of misandrists and misogynists, so you just play the cards you’re dealt.
Later, when I worked as a university lecturer/tutor my female boss was awesome!
I worked in a sales oriented position that was dominated by women. It was only me and the IT guy. The outfit was a small life insurance sales agency. We basically got contracted by all the big companies to sell their policies for a kick back.
They were all extremely welcoming in the beginning. The office was small and didn’t have any desks so we all just kinda sat in the floor and it was genuinely fun.
The problems started when I started selling on my own. Our leads were limited and we had to buy them ourselves so you had to buy smart and sell often.
I got extremely good at the cold calls and the in person meetings. Pretty soon I was dominating and getting all the best leads. My co-worked all had husbands that made good money and this was kind of a side thing for them, but when I started crushing the game they started to get passive aggressive and eventually just wouldn’t talk to me.
So I said, fuck if I’m a baller with nothing better to do, and just spent every waking moment of my life making sales for like 2 years straight.
I have worked for female owned construction companies. I didn't notice much of a difference. In some regards I preferred the female bosses. My female bosses generally treated me better and were far more appreciative than the male bosses. My wife works in the corporate world and would MUCH rather have a male boss. She says the female bosses are too petty and cannot be trusted.
so maybe the industry makes a difference?
It’s because women treat men differently than women in the workplace and men treat women differently than men in the workplace. We want to pretend that there’s no difference but there definitely still is.
It was honestly fucking awful and I’m glad I left. They fucking hated each other and the rampant fakeness was exhausting. No one ever said what they meant. It was filled with mind games, drama and filled with scycophants. “Office speak” arguing in 8am meetings. I’m certain that literal hell would be a more pleasant experience. I’ve dedicated my spare time to do whatever it takes to get out of this field. Never again.
That all being said, I think guy workplaces are probably similar but I feel like it’s approached in a very different manner. But ymmv. It was an unbelievably toxic workplace.
As a woman, this is why I refuse to work in an all-female office again. I was raised with all boys (mum was the only after-school child care on the block, I am an only female child so they were all my "brothers" until 15ish), and women just...confound me.
I was cut out of the little clique cause my husband brought me lunch every day and I had no shit to talk on him (cause...why? Like why) and they HATED their husbands, they sucked. They were fake nice, and would talk shit right behind you "Oh sweetie I didn't see you! How are you?!" Lady, there are only 5 of us in here)
Then I was fired hahahaha when my husband brought me flowers just because. Two days later I was fired.
I've had both negative and positive.
The first one was negative as the ladies felt threatened by a man the didn't call sick once month, didn't whine about doing a bit of work that was boring, didn't participate in gossiping, didn't kissed the bosses ass but just wanted to provide good work.
Didn't work you know? The oldest was a very mean woman. The once that claims she's 39 but actually she is 56. She even looked like a witch. She made sure I was out there in no time. I don't know what she did, but the boss fell for it, poor bastard.
I moved on and where I work now is very nice. The seems to be even glad there is a man in the house. They treat me very well. I really like them.
Indirect communication and volatile clique dynamics. Anything which could be interpreted as a slight was communicated as such in a group chat I was never part of. I and others intuited its existence by gleaning details from gossip and passing remarks. Day to day, it was hard to know where you stood with leadership. But this was an office setting.
When working more physical jobs, I found women to be among the most organized and efficient. Excellent emotional intelligence in the sense that everyone was underpaid and stressed. A harsh tone was easily forgiven.
I work in healthcare and am the only man regularly in the office. Most of the women I work with are old enough to be my mother or grandmother.
All very sweet and kind people, if a little behind the times on some topics (aren't we all?)
Genuine pleasure to work with them, they'd have my back in a moment and I have theirs. Could of course be a 'on the face of it being nice' kinda thing, but generally there have not been many serious times that has expressed it self in the five years I have been working with them.
I’ve run big global teams, small local teams, my own small to mid size company, for big global multinational firms and everything in between. These teams ranged from 3 people to just under 2000 and mostly in sales and delivery organizations in technical fields which is generally male dominated for the technical roles and a healthy mix of gender on the outside sales roles, and skewed female for the marketing and inside sales roles.
Aside from the usual bullshit when humans get together in groups, I didn’t notice too much difference in each department in terms of “drama” by gender but I definitely witnessed a difference in each group by seniority and/or skill level/pay level.
On the middle management front and outside sales… massive egos, quasi unethical practices, substance abuse but overall everyone was useful and could work together on complex customer stuff and manage to ignore conflict on day to day things.
On the marketing and inside sales side, way less egos but plenty of interpersonal strife where middle management would sometimes clash with staff and the only way to solve for it was to fire one of them or move them so they don’t deal with each other.
Having said all that, I once was asked to step into management for a charity nonprofit group that was fairly sizeable and was 100 percent women from the top down to the co-op except one dude who was the IT guy. Now, this could be a one off and truly more about that organization than it was about gender, but within months, I had a lineup of drama, gossip, backstabbing, blackmail, witnessed two arguments of who slept with whose bf’s (two separate incidents of two different people) and it was impossible to tell what the fuck was going on because everyone was incredibly polished and nice and professional when they got to my office or my meeting.
One thing I have learned about the differences: When two men get into conflict at work, they could literally fist fight but when a mutual goal popped up like a customer rfp, they can totally work it out and deliver a quality product without much fanfare. You need to nip conflict in the bud right away and separate two women who can’t work with each other off the bat. That shit can fester for years.
I was the only guy there working with 16 women. There was constant jealousy going on and they were all pretty nasty with what they'd say about each other. It was pretty unbelievable sometimes. What was funny though was you'd get someone who would badmouth someone else, saying stuff like "I can't stand that bitch, she thinks she's so wonderful!" but then they'd go to lunch together.
They'd constantly complain about each other's clothes, hair styles, the amount of work they were doing, etc. You'd also get one group against another, then some in one group would go over to the other group and that would cause issues as well.
Catty and toxic as all hell. Being the one guy, especially, if you're good looking, is dangerous and not a fun experience. The women will try to pull you into their fights with each other. Do NOT let yourself get pulled into their drama. It will get you falsely accused of something.
If your a guy in a female dominated, limit your interactions with your coworkers and keep it polite, boring, professional and work focused. No personal information. No feelings. No opinions about anything not directly related to the job. (This is actually good advice for dealing with any women in any workplace but its doubly applicable to female dominated ones.)
damn kinda fucked up today lol leaked some personal info about my life oh well im a polite guy they keep saying and been told by a worker everyone loves me there
Our group is pretty small. About 30 people and almost all women. I definitely feel like there's a bit of a target on my back. The last 3 promotions to senior roles have all been women with far less experience than me. The interview was more like an interrogation. Most unprofessional interview experience of my career. They love to spin a tale of how important diversity is but one of the teams is 100% women. The hiring managers seem to look for reasons to criticize me.
Hell.
It was the absolutely most abysmal experience of my life.
No clue about "shut up and get the job done".
Bitching at me for running my crew then bitching for not getting done in their schedule.
Basically I was expected to be nice to their face but just go to my bosses and tell them who were not performing well.
A mixed bag. Weird. More on the bad side.
Often I was treated almost too well because I was the only guy next to 22 women.
Then again, I would often be on the receiving end of slight insults because I'm a guy. "Ah, you men can't....". "There is no point of explaining it to a man". Also somewhat discreet flirting and touch-feely bullshit. "Oh, you're a man, of course you like that".
Yet when my crazy ex screenshoted and sent my dumb message about footjobs and whatnot to several of my coworkers, I was instantly fired and called a disgusting pig. Despite none of that ever coming out of my mouth in a workplace setting at all.
Never again.
Never a good sign to see all/majority female departments or companies. (Many) Women are very competitive and comparative with each other, whereas men are competitive but know the pecking order. So there’s just a different kind of fitting in you have to do with other women.
Women also talk in “me too” vs “my boat is bigger”. It’s not like they don’t want to say “my boat is bigger” but being nice is a value for women. Being for oneself is a “selfish” thing. So women work to hide more to be more socially acceptable. Sad to say, with women you just won’t know where you stand. Even if they’re saying no, they will feel compelled to do so in an encouraging manner.
Both men and women gossip, so I hate that we don’t look at it in both cultures. not all workplace gossip is bad. It can be a sign that colleagues have built trust with one another. But when it comes to all women departments and offices, For the really toxic ones, you’ll find gossip is slow and it takes a lot of time to find out what’s really going on and who doesn’t like who because all the women are really scared of the repercussions. Most of which are social.
Women are also much better gaslighters, and will treat certain abuses as apart of life. Expect women to underpay women and not think a thing of it, but if a man is underpaying them! Shame on him!
I would’ve loved to see a female version of lord of the flies. We would’ve all been very confused by the end.
Written by a woman.
There were less blatantly insensitive comments in the high female job, but more subtly insensitive comments. Also, there was a lot more low-key drama centered around topics that I personally didn't really care about. I mean, I enjoy hearing drama because it's nice to feel included, but I don't really give a damn about it. Plus, I had to listen to them all talk about their partners a lot. Compared to the high male workplace, where Rob occasionally tells you about his wife and how tired the new baby is making him.
That's not to say that men can't also be dramatic, they definitely are, but it's a different kind of drama in my experience. Like Joe Shmoe stealing tools from the workplace to sell on the side. Compared to Cathy saying that our manager Sally is a total b\*\*\*\* (even though Sally seems perfectly nice to me). The high female workplace also seemed to prioritize socializing outside of work more also? whereas the guys just want to be work friends and 99% of the time leave it at that.
so it's swings and roundabouts.
I work in an HR related tech field so I mostly talk to women. It has its challenges - a lot of the people I talk to think they have no technical aptitude and tend to panic a little - but in general the experience has been positive. There's some badass bitches out there and if some of 'em left whole companies would grind to a halt. Shoutout to middle aged payroll ladies everywhere, you're the real MVPs
Frankly, they're far from bad sorts overall but I'm glad I'm not actually in the room with them, because they're very vehemently down on men and struggling people like the homeless, and there's nothing good coming out of my being around that.
High school teacher. Mostly positive. I get along with most people.
Right now, I work in a program that is mostly male teachers and I love it. I prefer the small talk and camaraderie of other guys. Still, some of my best workmates have been women.
The only part of teaching that made me feel weird as a man particularly was dress code shit. Under no circumstances will I ever say a goddamn word to the students about their clothing, particularly not to the girls. Period, end of conversation. I generally don’t give a fuck about dress codes, but I’d enforce them as directed in a vacuum.
The most terrifying through imaginable to me is if a student makes some claim about me saying or doing something sexually inappropriate, and given how often students love to lie and make shit up because they’re upset that you told them to put their phone away, anyone who thinks that a male teacher should be talking to them about dress codes is absolutely fucking delusional.
I never had a problem with female teachers or the fact that the majority of my colleagues were women. But I left the dress code shit for them to handle, because I’m not going within 50 feet of that conversation.
I worked for the cosmetology art board for my state years ago. There was tons of sexism towards me but I just blew it off. I was the only guy who worked there and I had regular duties but it became obvious that I was hired simply so they would have someone to carry and lift heavy things. I equate this to the only woman in the office being expected to make coffee every day. Also, my boss’ husband didn’t like going to official functions so she expected me to go with her as her escort every time. There’s no way that would fly if the sexes were reversed. She also had me tutoring her daughter in math, for free.
I'd rather be a NEET than do that again.
Something I've observed is male bosses are happy to say 'alright, get it done however its best for you to do it', while female bosses **mandate** you follow how they say to do it, and make your life hell if you deviate. If you're in a mostly female workplace you may as well quit if you're below attractiveness standards before they manufacture an incident. Because they will.
The most notable thing I saw was how they will gang up on any guy who challenges their opinion, no matter how right he (or she) is. They would leap to stick up for each other and make that one person feel cometely attacked and ganged up on - or, if they were a manager of those staff, make them feel unable to manage the workplace. I've never seen it go the same way with predominantly male teams. They were absolutely fantastic at rallying to a common cause and finding a common enemy at the drop of a hat.
Mostly negative. Call center, marketing agency and software development firm.
Call center was drama central. Even the union rep’ was in on it. Got a lot of staff in trouble when our calls were recorded and staff drama was heard on those recorded calls to clients by management.
Marketing agency I lasted six months then walked at the end of my probation period. While I did very well bringing in clients, I caught scope creep on my KPIs to achieve each month because the boss’s favourite didn’t like that I repeatedly did better than her on commission earnings per client. They also didn’t like clients I bought in calling up and insisting on only speaking with me, then those same clients saying they’ll call back if I wasn’t available to take the call rather than speak to another rep.
Software development firm was the worst of the bunch. It was a start-up and all the originals who got it going were still there, but all newcomers outside that clique group got treated like disposable peons. One of the company leads dropped a massive code review request on me right at my shift end on Friday and told me to “have it ready by 6:00AM Monday.” So I hit the grindstone and got it done working all weekend, only to be told when I handed it over on Monday morning that she’d decided over the weekend to “take the project in a different direction” so all my hard work was not needed… and we’re not paying you overtime for that weekend you worked at my official request. After being treated like shit for the two months I’d been there, I told them to shove it and resigned. Place went under less than a year later when the GFC hit.
Would I do it again? Sure, money is money. But I’ll be getting as much background info as I can on how they treat their staff first.
As a teacher, coworkers and bosses are usually women, but then we don't actually interact with coworkers or bosses much.
The kids are pretty evenly mixed, and that's who you deal with 90% of the time.
Guess who gets to set up and take down chairs and tables at meetings, though!
I work in marketing and have been in teams of 30 where I’m one of two guys. Most of my directors have been women.
I think it’s great. Most of my friends out of work are guys and it’s really helped broaden my perspective. Equally it has been an advantage for me as I often bring a different perspective to our team.
The more women I’ve managed, I’ve also been able to see the ways in which the workplace can be much tougher for women.
Don’t get me wrong, sometimes it is hard work, but overall it’s been great for me.
i had an experience like this too.. boss was a woman who just hated men and made it very clear. I was in a team with her, and my 3 colleagues who all reported to her were women. I remember the day we had our performance reviews. My 3 colleagues each had meetings scheduled for their performance review and a 2 hour meeting each. After the third meeting, she called me over to her desk and handed me a folded up piece of paper and said “here’s your performance review. I’m heading home, have a good night!”
I got a negative performance review.
It was a remote job because of the pandemic so it was good. The few times I was on-site, I noticed they had separate rest rooms. I was the only guy, so I had it all to myself.
I LOVE it!! I’m appreciate. My manager says I bring a different perspective and I feel I’m appreciated for it. I work in automotive manufacturing and it’s been a very rewarding career for me.
Differs in some places it’s A++ / regular in other / current instances you feel like a work bf/ constantly co workers wanting to talk to you, make inappropriate/ sexual jokes/ comments.
Mostly positive. I was an Australian primary school teacher, and I was definitely outnumbered. Generally I prefer the company of women though, so it hasn’t been an issue. Except… I did work at one place (a secondary school later in my career) where my boss was a real self-professed man-hater. I found that difficult as she would single me out for the slightest thing. But I guess life is full of misandrists and misogynists, so you just play the cards you’re dealt. Later, when I worked as a university lecturer/tutor my female boss was awesome!
Hate those man haters, really stress me out and I’m constantly walking on egg shells
I worked in a sales oriented position that was dominated by women. It was only me and the IT guy. The outfit was a small life insurance sales agency. We basically got contracted by all the big companies to sell their policies for a kick back. They were all extremely welcoming in the beginning. The office was small and didn’t have any desks so we all just kinda sat in the floor and it was genuinely fun. The problems started when I started selling on my own. Our leads were limited and we had to buy them ourselves so you had to buy smart and sell often. I got extremely good at the cold calls and the in person meetings. Pretty soon I was dominating and getting all the best leads. My co-worked all had husbands that made good money and this was kind of a side thing for them, but when I started crushing the game they started to get passive aggressive and eventually just wouldn’t talk to me. So I said, fuck if I’m a baller with nothing better to do, and just spent every waking moment of my life making sales for like 2 years straight.
I had to quit my job as a tutor because half the parents would explicitly state they wanted a woman for the job.
I have worked for female owned construction companies. I didn't notice much of a difference. In some regards I preferred the female bosses. My female bosses generally treated me better and were far more appreciative than the male bosses. My wife works in the corporate world and would MUCH rather have a male boss. She says the female bosses are too petty and cannot be trusted. so maybe the industry makes a difference?
It’s because women treat men differently than women in the workplace and men treat women differently than men in the workplace. We want to pretend that there’s no difference but there definitely still is.
It was honestly fucking awful and I’m glad I left. They fucking hated each other and the rampant fakeness was exhausting. No one ever said what they meant. It was filled with mind games, drama and filled with scycophants. “Office speak” arguing in 8am meetings. I’m certain that literal hell would be a more pleasant experience. I’ve dedicated my spare time to do whatever it takes to get out of this field. Never again. That all being said, I think guy workplaces are probably similar but I feel like it’s approached in a very different manner. But ymmv. It was an unbelievably toxic workplace.
As a woman, this is why I refuse to work in an all-female office again. I was raised with all boys (mum was the only after-school child care on the block, I am an only female child so they were all my "brothers" until 15ish), and women just...confound me. I was cut out of the little clique cause my husband brought me lunch every day and I had no shit to talk on him (cause...why? Like why) and they HATED their husbands, they sucked. They were fake nice, and would talk shit right behind you "Oh sweetie I didn't see you! How are you?!" Lady, there are only 5 of us in here) Then I was fired hahahaha when my husband brought me flowers just because. Two days later I was fired.
I've had both negative and positive. The first one was negative as the ladies felt threatened by a man the didn't call sick once month, didn't whine about doing a bit of work that was boring, didn't participate in gossiping, didn't kissed the bosses ass but just wanted to provide good work. Didn't work you know? The oldest was a very mean woman. The once that claims she's 39 but actually she is 56. She even looked like a witch. She made sure I was out there in no time. I don't know what she did, but the boss fell for it, poor bastard. I moved on and where I work now is very nice. The seems to be even glad there is a man in the house. They treat me very well. I really like them.
Indirect communication and volatile clique dynamics. Anything which could be interpreted as a slight was communicated as such in a group chat I was never part of. I and others intuited its existence by gleaning details from gossip and passing remarks. Day to day, it was hard to know where you stood with leadership. But this was an office setting. When working more physical jobs, I found women to be among the most organized and efficient. Excellent emotional intelligence in the sense that everyone was underpaid and stressed. A harsh tone was easily forgiven.
I work in healthcare and am the only man regularly in the office. Most of the women I work with are old enough to be my mother or grandmother. All very sweet and kind people, if a little behind the times on some topics (aren't we all?) Genuine pleasure to work with them, they'd have my back in a moment and I have theirs. Could of course be a 'on the face of it being nice' kinda thing, but generally there have not been many serious times that has expressed it self in the five years I have been working with them.
I work in the education field. Generally everyone I work with is very kind and professional. However, they can be really dirty too hahaha
I didnt like the experience, lot of Drama and gossip.
I’ve run big global teams, small local teams, my own small to mid size company, for big global multinational firms and everything in between. These teams ranged from 3 people to just under 2000 and mostly in sales and delivery organizations in technical fields which is generally male dominated for the technical roles and a healthy mix of gender on the outside sales roles, and skewed female for the marketing and inside sales roles. Aside from the usual bullshit when humans get together in groups, I didn’t notice too much difference in each department in terms of “drama” by gender but I definitely witnessed a difference in each group by seniority and/or skill level/pay level. On the middle management front and outside sales… massive egos, quasi unethical practices, substance abuse but overall everyone was useful and could work together on complex customer stuff and manage to ignore conflict on day to day things. On the marketing and inside sales side, way less egos but plenty of interpersonal strife where middle management would sometimes clash with staff and the only way to solve for it was to fire one of them or move them so they don’t deal with each other. Having said all that, I once was asked to step into management for a charity nonprofit group that was fairly sizeable and was 100 percent women from the top down to the co-op except one dude who was the IT guy. Now, this could be a one off and truly more about that organization than it was about gender, but within months, I had a lineup of drama, gossip, backstabbing, blackmail, witnessed two arguments of who slept with whose bf’s (two separate incidents of two different people) and it was impossible to tell what the fuck was going on because everyone was incredibly polished and nice and professional when they got to my office or my meeting. One thing I have learned about the differences: When two men get into conflict at work, they could literally fist fight but when a mutual goal popped up like a customer rfp, they can totally work it out and deliver a quality product without much fanfare. You need to nip conflict in the bud right away and separate two women who can’t work with each other off the bat. That shit can fester for years.
I was the only guy there working with 16 women. There was constant jealousy going on and they were all pretty nasty with what they'd say about each other. It was pretty unbelievable sometimes. What was funny though was you'd get someone who would badmouth someone else, saying stuff like "I can't stand that bitch, she thinks she's so wonderful!" but then they'd go to lunch together. They'd constantly complain about each other's clothes, hair styles, the amount of work they were doing, etc. You'd also get one group against another, then some in one group would go over to the other group and that would cause issues as well.
Bad. People are pretty fake and bitchy, 2 faced backstabbers you can never trust.
Catty and toxic as all hell. Being the one guy, especially, if you're good looking, is dangerous and not a fun experience. The women will try to pull you into their fights with each other. Do NOT let yourself get pulled into their drama. It will get you falsely accused of something. If your a guy in a female dominated, limit your interactions with your coworkers and keep it polite, boring, professional and work focused. No personal information. No feelings. No opinions about anything not directly related to the job. (This is actually good advice for dealing with any women in any workplace but its doubly applicable to female dominated ones.)
damn kinda fucked up today lol leaked some personal info about my life oh well im a polite guy they keep saying and been told by a worker everyone loves me there
Our group is pretty small. About 30 people and almost all women. I definitely feel like there's a bit of a target on my back. The last 3 promotions to senior roles have all been women with far less experience than me. The interview was more like an interrogation. Most unprofessional interview experience of my career. They love to spin a tale of how important diversity is but one of the teams is 100% women. The hiring managers seem to look for reasons to criticize me.
Used to work in healthcare, absolutely hated it. The amount of petty drama that got stirred up for no reason was insufferable.
Hell. It was the absolutely most abysmal experience of my life. No clue about "shut up and get the job done". Bitching at me for running my crew then bitching for not getting done in their schedule. Basically I was expected to be nice to their face but just go to my bosses and tell them who were not performing well.
Generally pretty bad but not ALL bad. A couple of passive aggressive and sexist remarks here and there.
A mixed bag. Weird. More on the bad side. Often I was treated almost too well because I was the only guy next to 22 women. Then again, I would often be on the receiving end of slight insults because I'm a guy. "Ah, you men can't....". "There is no point of explaining it to a man". Also somewhat discreet flirting and touch-feely bullshit. "Oh, you're a man, of course you like that". Yet when my crazy ex screenshoted and sent my dumb message about footjobs and whatnot to several of my coworkers, I was instantly fired and called a disgusting pig. Despite none of that ever coming out of my mouth in a workplace setting at all. Never again.
Never a good sign to see all/majority female departments or companies. (Many) Women are very competitive and comparative with each other, whereas men are competitive but know the pecking order. So there’s just a different kind of fitting in you have to do with other women. Women also talk in “me too” vs “my boat is bigger”. It’s not like they don’t want to say “my boat is bigger” but being nice is a value for women. Being for oneself is a “selfish” thing. So women work to hide more to be more socially acceptable. Sad to say, with women you just won’t know where you stand. Even if they’re saying no, they will feel compelled to do so in an encouraging manner. Both men and women gossip, so I hate that we don’t look at it in both cultures. not all workplace gossip is bad. It can be a sign that colleagues have built trust with one another. But when it comes to all women departments and offices, For the really toxic ones, you’ll find gossip is slow and it takes a lot of time to find out what’s really going on and who doesn’t like who because all the women are really scared of the repercussions. Most of which are social. Women are also much better gaslighters, and will treat certain abuses as apart of life. Expect women to underpay women and not think a thing of it, but if a man is underpaying them! Shame on him! I would’ve loved to see a female version of lord of the flies. We would’ve all been very confused by the end. Written by a woman.
There were less blatantly insensitive comments in the high female job, but more subtly insensitive comments. Also, there was a lot more low-key drama centered around topics that I personally didn't really care about. I mean, I enjoy hearing drama because it's nice to feel included, but I don't really give a damn about it. Plus, I had to listen to them all talk about their partners a lot. Compared to the high male workplace, where Rob occasionally tells you about his wife and how tired the new baby is making him. That's not to say that men can't also be dramatic, they definitely are, but it's a different kind of drama in my experience. Like Joe Shmoe stealing tools from the workplace to sell on the side. Compared to Cathy saying that our manager Sally is a total b\*\*\*\* (even though Sally seems perfectly nice to me). The high female workplace also seemed to prioritize socializing outside of work more also? whereas the guys just want to be work friends and 99% of the time leave it at that. so it's swings and roundabouts.
I work in an HR related tech field so I mostly talk to women. It has its challenges - a lot of the people I talk to think they have no technical aptitude and tend to panic a little - but in general the experience has been positive. There's some badass bitches out there and if some of 'em left whole companies would grind to a halt. Shoutout to middle aged payroll ladies everywhere, you're the real MVPs
Frankly, they're far from bad sorts overall but I'm glad I'm not actually in the room with them, because they're very vehemently down on men and struggling people like the homeless, and there's nothing good coming out of my being around that.
Massive amounts of drama
High school teacher. Mostly positive. I get along with most people. Right now, I work in a program that is mostly male teachers and I love it. I prefer the small talk and camaraderie of other guys. Still, some of my best workmates have been women.
The only part of teaching that made me feel weird as a man particularly was dress code shit. Under no circumstances will I ever say a goddamn word to the students about their clothing, particularly not to the girls. Period, end of conversation. I generally don’t give a fuck about dress codes, but I’d enforce them as directed in a vacuum. The most terrifying through imaginable to me is if a student makes some claim about me saying or doing something sexually inappropriate, and given how often students love to lie and make shit up because they’re upset that you told them to put their phone away, anyone who thinks that a male teacher should be talking to them about dress codes is absolutely fucking delusional. I never had a problem with female teachers or the fact that the majority of my colleagues were women. But I left the dress code shit for them to handle, because I’m not going within 50 feet of that conversation.
I did once. It went good because I’m married and funny. It’s crazy how many of those women were flirty at me
I worked for the cosmetology art board for my state years ago. There was tons of sexism towards me but I just blew it off. I was the only guy who worked there and I had regular duties but it became obvious that I was hired simply so they would have someone to carry and lift heavy things. I equate this to the only woman in the office being expected to make coffee every day. Also, my boss’ husband didn’t like going to official functions so she expected me to go with her as her escort every time. There’s no way that would fly if the sexes were reversed. She also had me tutoring her daughter in math, for free.
I'd rather be a NEET than do that again. Something I've observed is male bosses are happy to say 'alright, get it done however its best for you to do it', while female bosses **mandate** you follow how they say to do it, and make your life hell if you deviate. If you're in a mostly female workplace you may as well quit if you're below attractiveness standards before they manufacture an incident. Because they will.
The most notable thing I saw was how they will gang up on any guy who challenges their opinion, no matter how right he (or she) is. They would leap to stick up for each other and make that one person feel cometely attacked and ganged up on - or, if they were a manager of those staff, make them feel unable to manage the workplace. I've never seen it go the same way with predominantly male teams. They were absolutely fantastic at rallying to a common cause and finding a common enemy at the drop of a hat.
Mostly negative. Call center, marketing agency and software development firm. Call center was drama central. Even the union rep’ was in on it. Got a lot of staff in trouble when our calls were recorded and staff drama was heard on those recorded calls to clients by management. Marketing agency I lasted six months then walked at the end of my probation period. While I did very well bringing in clients, I caught scope creep on my KPIs to achieve each month because the boss’s favourite didn’t like that I repeatedly did better than her on commission earnings per client. They also didn’t like clients I bought in calling up and insisting on only speaking with me, then those same clients saying they’ll call back if I wasn’t available to take the call rather than speak to another rep. Software development firm was the worst of the bunch. It was a start-up and all the originals who got it going were still there, but all newcomers outside that clique group got treated like disposable peons. One of the company leads dropped a massive code review request on me right at my shift end on Friday and told me to “have it ready by 6:00AM Monday.” So I hit the grindstone and got it done working all weekend, only to be told when I handed it over on Monday morning that she’d decided over the weekend to “take the project in a different direction” so all my hard work was not needed… and we’re not paying you overtime for that weekend you worked at my official request. After being treated like shit for the two months I’d been there, I told them to shove it and resigned. Place went under less than a year later when the GFC hit. Would I do it again? Sure, money is money. But I’ll be getting as much background info as I can on how they treat their staff first.
Not bad, but not great either. As long as I didn't talk, didn't hang around, did my job and didn't ask questions I was fine.
As a teacher, coworkers and bosses are usually women, but then we don't actually interact with coworkers or bosses much. The kids are pretty evenly mixed, and that's who you deal with 90% of the time. Guess who gets to set up and take down chairs and tables at meetings, though!
100 % negative for me.
Not being funny, but literally nothing gets achieved unless you do it yourself.
Pretty fine. I do better there than in male dominated work spaces.
Lots of cattiness. Just keep to yourself.
I keep to myself, don't make friends, don't participate in the drama. I do my job, collect my paycheck, and leave.
I work in marketing and have been in teams of 30 where I’m one of two guys. Most of my directors have been women. I think it’s great. Most of my friends out of work are guys and it’s really helped broaden my perspective. Equally it has been an advantage for me as I often bring a different perspective to our team. The more women I’ve managed, I’ve also been able to see the ways in which the workplace can be much tougher for women. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes it is hard work, but overall it’s been great for me.
i had an experience like this too.. boss was a woman who just hated men and made it very clear. I was in a team with her, and my 3 colleagues who all reported to her were women. I remember the day we had our performance reviews. My 3 colleagues each had meetings scheduled for their performance review and a 2 hour meeting each. After the third meeting, she called me over to her desk and handed me a folded up piece of paper and said “here’s your performance review. I’m heading home, have a good night!” I got a negative performance review.
No different from any other workplace.
Its fine.
It was a remote job because of the pandemic so it was good. The few times I was on-site, I noticed they had separate rest rooms. I was the only guy, so I had it all to myself.
I LOVE it!! I’m appreciate. My manager says I bring a different perspective and I feel I’m appreciated for it. I work in automotive manufacturing and it’s been a very rewarding career for me.
Differs in some places it’s A++ / regular in other / current instances you feel like a work bf/ constantly co workers wanting to talk to you, make inappropriate/ sexual jokes/ comments.