The bias goes much deeper than that. It's not just women, but all minority or discriminated groups, the "other" group, so to speak.
If a woman, or minority group Leader, is aggressive or abusive, it's all "women" or all of that "group" who are bad bosses or Leaders. If it's a man or any other majority group person, then it's that man alone who is a bad boss or Leader.
Its the same phenomenon as when all incidents involving Muslim men are "terrorist" incidents, or "gang or drug incidents" for blacks etc. A discriminated against group is one where everyone is identical, and anyone represents the group. A majority group (the one which does the discriminating!) is made up of individuals, each to be judged based on his or her own merits or demerits. But the minority group has no such privilege. They all represent the entire group. It's a group which has "average" properties all around.
If a woman, or minority group Leader, is aggressive or abusive, it's all "women" or all of that "group" who are bad bosses or Leaders. If it's a man or any other majority group person, then it's that man alone who is a bad boss or Leader.
Its the same phenomenon as when all incidents involving Muslim men are "terrorist" incidents, or "gang or drug incidents" for blacks etc. A discriminated against group is one where everyone is identical, and anyone represents the group. A majority group (the one which does the discriminating!) is made up of individuals, each to be judged based on his or her own merits or demerits. But the minority group has no such privilege. They all represent the entire group. It's a group which has "average" properties all around.