A succession of male general managers was courted.

In another scenario, a male manager suggests that a woman employee spend a weekend with him to discuss her request for a promotion.

In a business still dominated by male managers, her management strengths are not obvious, but none the less stunningly effective.

I have never seen a male manager in tears.

First, he asked the price of a manicure, then he asked if there was a male manager in the shop.

Those who hope that the retirement of male managers will eventually level the field shouldn't count on it.

The problem is that there are far more male general managers, some of whom are, arguably, unexceptional.

The worst is in meetings with clients where a male manager will refer to me repeatedly as "he."

Some personnel directors speculate that young male managers have problems relating to older women, who may remind them of their wives or even mothers.

Those male managers, the report implied, actually stand no better odds of reaching the top today than they did 30 years ago.