Are men really that bad at being kind, open and supportive? I guess I should keep checking myself…

Maybe some unconscious biases are at play, with regards to the predominantly female leadership at Edgar. I want to ask you an honest question: what keeps the people hiring for leadership positions from mixing their own unconscious biases in their decisions?

Maybe I just feel hurt for being part of a group (men) who, more often than not, do not show kindness and openness to all people in their behaviour and interactions, and am acting on the defensive for this reason. I just don’t know myself that well. Can anybody truly know themselves? Aren’t unconscious biases applied to ourselves when we think of ourselves?

In any case, my gut tells me that leadership that is predominantly composed of women is slightly more effective than that which is composed predominantly of men.

I don’t know why my gut tells me this. Maybe it’s because women have been disadvantaged in the workplace (this truth can neither be ignored nor denied), forced to prove themselves at every stage instead of being treated as knowledgeable (as should be the norm, and this applies to everybody). Maybe women who have progressed to leadership roles are definitely better than male leaders in the same position, because it takes more skills and intelligence to make it as a leader when being female (because of being disadvantaged and not taken seriously in the workplace unless possessing wondrous technical skills).

I don’t know how to say this without sounding rude or sounding like I am undermining your post (which is very good), but all-women teams are almost as bad as all-men teams.

I say almost because there are more all-men teams than all-women teams in the tech industry right now.