Female supervisors cause health problems

It may not be politically correct but a recent study confirmed that both men and women employees with a single female boss reported

Researchers from the University of Toronto collected data from a national phone survey on working adults in the United States. They compared stress levels between various combinations of bosses and their genders. They broke work environments into three categories:
- a lone male supervisor
- a lone female supervisor
- both a male and a female supervisor

The conclusions were:
Women who had only one female boss reported more psychological distress (such as trouble sleeping, difficulty focusing on work, depression and anxiety) and physical symptoms (such as headaches, stomach pain or heartburn, neck and back pain and tiredness) than women who worked for one male boss.

Women who reported to a mixed-gender pair of supervisors also reported more of these symptoms than their peers who worked for a single male boss.

Men who worked for a single supervisor, regardless of the supervisor’s gender, had similar levels of distress.

Men who worked for a mixed-gender pair had fewer mental and physical symptoms than those working for a lone male supervisor.

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