I figured as much just wanted to try and make a joke.
I have a theory about women on career paths. There is no research to support this theory.
If the woman is secure in her position and abilities, she'll be good to work for/with. (I would put my boss in this category.)
If the woman is insecure in her position and abilities, she'll stab you and everyone around you in the back to promote herself. (I would many other VPs, Deans, etc. in this category.)
Please note, I'm in no way saying men are the easiest thing to work with either.
I never understood why a recent female boss I had was one person I did not seem to get along with. Nothing I did was good enough, everything was hypercritical with her... so I could lasso the moon for our team, only to be told she wanted Mars. So when she was moved to another position and I sent her an email congratulating her on her promotion, she told me eggszactly why she disliked me.
Seems a teammate of mine (that was fired for unethical behavior) had told her that I was spreading gossip about her and her managerial style to everyone in the Austin office (my boss was in Kansas City). I never knew that this was the genesis of the problem, I just plain thought she did not like me and there was nothing I could do about it. When I read the email, it floored me. Why me? Well, because said teammate wanted to jaundice everybody on our team so he could gain her good graces and leap frog all of us. The one he considered his biggest rival was me. So I was first on his hit list.
When I talked (called her immediately) to my now ex-boss, I told her I had never even thought any such thing about her and if I were spreading such lies, why did she not just call me instead of believing that lying sack of shit! I mean, he got fired when he got caught doing some really bad things customer related... so there is that. She apologized to me and we cleared the air. So we were actually better in terms of a professional relationship (her new team and our team sometimes work on projects, and really an up and coming major shift in how we do work is related to how well her new team and our team work together). One side note, my new boss, a man, asked me why my ex-boss was so harsh in her PBC ratings of me, since he didn't see how I could possibly be as bad as she wrote about me given how he was seeing my performance under him. I explained and he said "That happens here (as X company) a lot more than we let on... big companies tend to have this sort of thing happen, and it effects all managers, not just (insert ex boss name here)... she got trapped by an old ploy by this guy who knew how to manipulate the system until he got caught... your ex-boss being new to our company and of course you too (we were acquired by this giant company) didn't know better."
Like I said, it wasn't a woman or man thing, it was a B.S. political thing that a good boss let herself get caught up in given her need to perform for a new giant company real fast. She thought I was the Brutus to her Ceasar when we got acquired... and that ploy almost worked too. I am glad that when I was asked about said former teammate and his behavior, I was able to provide some information (factual) about what he did all day, every day around our group. They were investigating him already, so my input was just more logs for the fire.
