https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/03/0...ame-classically-masculine-personality-traits/
Female bosses are personality-wise basically men.
Is it any wonder more men than women are qualified???
Seriously? You've got a bit of cart before your horse here.
"Traditional" personality traits are largely learned behaviors. There are a small handful that seem to be sex-linked genetic traits, but not very many. Instead, we have had many societies that have treated women as secondary to men in all aspects, and have built socially-defined gender roles around that divide. Men are strong and confident... a woman with the same behaviors will be viewed as domineering and arrogant. A man who is emotionally reserved is logical and thoughtful... a woman who is emotionally reserved is a heartless ice queen. A man who exercises for an hour every day and spends 30 minutes grooming each morning is disciplined and professional... a woman who does the same is vain and self-absorbed.
Here's the crux of the problem: leadership roles in business and politics require a person to be confident, assertive, and in control of their emotions. These are traits that we, as a society, have decided are male traits. And when a woman displays those exact same traits, they are viewed as negative behaviors
from a woman. In a man they are positives, in a woman they are negatives. So if a man is seeking a leadership position, his behaviors are in accordance with the social expectation of both the role and his gender. If a woman is seeking a leadership position, her behaviors (which are needed for that leadership role) are in contradiction to the social expectation of her gender - and they act
against her. Men don't like women who "act like men" and they get passed over for leadership positions as being uncooperative and unlikeable... but women who "act like women" aren't portraying the characteristics needed for leadership and get passed over as well. The small percentage of women who can manage to be both assertive and collaborative, confident and demure, emotionally controlled and ebullient - those are the few who have managed to attain leadership roles.
Just look at this last election. Irrespective of how much I personally disliked Clinton... how many comments were there on her pant-suits? How many disparaging swipes were taken at her for being unfeminine, for being masculine? And let's not even get into the whole calling her by her first name thing - women are consistently treated in an overly casual fashion in business and political encounters, where men are treated with a distanced respect. Women are more likely to be addressed by their first name only, where men are more likely to be referred to by their title, or at least their surname.