Hasn't been my experience. I've worked in the service industry, marketing, and corporate. From my experience, women leaders are almost always more lenient to the female employees, and hard asses towards the men. They would give them lee way because of female issues (such as that time of the month), and female employees would clearly abuse this. On the other hand, they felt little sympathy towards my male co workers, and demanded they work harder. They had no sympathy for male issues.

Also as a woman, I can't tell you how much gossip and inappropriate shit women can say and get away with. Whereas men will get fired if they so much glance or say something that can be turned around as sexist, even if it wasn't sexist. I even found male bosses were more lenient towards women in that regard. Ive been treated much more fairly by female bosses then my male co workers, and I would feel bad about it.

This isn't a female vs men thing, as I think males also share the blame. The whole be a man and suck it up BS, often leads men to be treated like work horses.

What is frustrating to me as a woman in the work force, is how often women will do less work, and will still demand the same pay or promotions. In my experience, more women leave work early, or they want to work minimum hours, and they almost always turn down weekends and over time. The male workers, were basically forced to work them.

Of course, completely anecdotal experience. I have worked at various companies and different industries, and experienced it across though. So I dunno. Maybe the debate should be about all workers working minimum hours and being let out early. Maybe male workers need to get that same access, that women get, I dunno. Then again, as others pointed out, women aren't promoted at the same rates as men.

I just know that like my male co workers, I put in extra hours and don't leave early. And it pisses me off to see women do less hours and demand same pay and promotion. Both genders should get equal pay starting out. But employees regardless of gender that do more work, and who do higher quality of work, should get paid more (and if someone does less hours but does higher quality work, they should also get a raise).