Call a little girl “bossy” and she starts to avoid leadership ... We’re talking about pointing out that a woman is “unmarried” or even that she’s a “mother of two.” ...

Claire Cohen reports New research has found that women are criticised more heavily at work Ambitious. Bossy. Over the past few months we’ve heard a lot about these words and their negative ...

What do Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg share with innumerable other prominent women? They've all been called bossy. And why, with all the important issues women deal with ...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has decided she doesn't like the word "bossy." Last month, she and other prominent women, like Condoleezza Rice and Beyonce, collaborated to launch Ban Bossy ...

Like a certain other b-word, "bossy" reveals an asymmetry between the way we treat men and women. "When a little boy asserts himself, he's called a 'leader,'" banbossy.com reads. "Yet when a ...

From its inception the word has been associated more with women than with men. It first appeared in 1882, according to the OED, mentioning "a lady manager who was dreadfully bossy". It's telling ...

From its inception the word has been associated more with women than with men. It first appeared in 1882, according to the OED, mentioning "a lady manager who was dreadfully bossy". It's telling ...

What’s wrong with a bossy woman? This is the question I am asking myself and I intend to ask my friends when I have sorted my argument and take to the podium to deliver a lecture on the subject.