> I don't think I'd have seen the same blowback from an identically-acting male leader.
Let's take a step back and remove gender from the discussion.
My experience working with senior leadership has been to get results you end up stepping on toes. As such you get called all sorts of things.
It's also my experience that the way a person acts towards their boss is different from the way they act with their peers which again is different than the way they act towards their subordinates.
With this in mind are you sure it had anything to do with sexism?
Let's take a step back and remove gender from the discussion.
My experience working with senior leadership has been to get results you end up stepping on toes. As such you get called all sorts of things.
It's also my experience that the way a person acts towards their boss is different from the way they act with their peers which again is different than the way they act towards their subordinates.
With this in mind are you sure it had anything to do with sexism?