Whatever your opinion of the campaign by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In foundation to ban the word bossy — which, for the record, I advised on — one thing is indisputable: the power of words is ...

Again and again, women told me that their oldest sister was bossy. Sandberg an oldest sister So I wasn't surprised to read in Sandberg's book — right up front — that she is an oldest sister.

Ambitious. Bossy. Over the past few months we’ve heard a lot about these words and their negative connotations when applied to women at work.

He found that "bossy" refers to women about 1.5 times more frequently than men. The first chart below shows Young's search, and the second chart shows Subtirelu's. Linguistic Pulse ...

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".

There's a campaign to discourage the use of the word "bossy". Does the term destroy the confidence of young girls, asks Tom Heyden. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP ...

Georgetown linguist Deborah Tannen, the author of "Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work," says "bossy" isn't just a word.It's a frame of mind.. Calling someone "bossy" is "just a way of ...

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".

When a woman is bossy, she’s over-reached. So, this is obviously a feminist issue. In more modern parlance it might be called structural sexism. Men are rarely called bossy.